Reuben's Podcast

On today’s show, I’m speaking with Sumedha. I met Sumedha back in 2010 in university, where we were classmates and studied economics together. As the title for the show suggests, after a few years in finance, Sumedha decided to pursue her curiosity and end up in the world of data science. She tells me about her time in the world of finance, what sparked her interest in data science, how she taught herself before getting a formal education, and why it’s important that one takes risks in life. But we start off today’s conversation with what she thinks of New York and her most vivid memories of her time in college

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On today's show, I'm chatting with Lipsa. Lipsa and I went to university together but we didn’t cross paths much during college. Over the last decade, Lipsa has had an exciting journey, starting off in the world of academia and then transitioning into entrepreneurship and innovation. We chat about a bunch of things including her study in spectroscopy, discovering the new biochemical species, which unfortunately she couldn’t name after herself, starting a company, a podcast, and much more.

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Antony. I met Antony back in 2010 when we were classmates in college. Over the last decade, he has pursued a career in insurance and learning how to manage risk. In our conversation today we talk about his long winding journey to becoming an actuary, moving and living in Denmark and his newfound interest in climate change, and why we all need to pay more attention to it.

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On today’s show, I’m chatting with Vanshica. I met Vanshika back in 2010 in university. After graduating with a degree in History, she went on to do her master's at Oxford and spent the year following that working at international organizations like the UN and World Economic Forum. In today’s chat talk about why she believes History is the mother of all social sciences, her life in Oxford and it was different from Stephen’s, what working for the UN looks like, and why all the fuss behind Davos.

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Tarini Mahajan. I met Tarini in 2010 back in university. Tarini’s had a really interesting decade - after graduating in Philosophy, she worked a bit, got a master's, and decided to spend an entire year in Colombia to practice her Spanish. Instead of continuing down the academic route, she decided to join the family business - manufacturing of hand tools - as industrial as it gets! In today’s conversation, we talk about why she made these decisions and dive into each of these experiences and more!

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Ananya. I met Ananya back in 2010 in university. Over the last decade she’s followed her dream, ever since she was 13, to become an archeologist, which has taken her from the classroom, to dig sites and now to working at a museum. In today’s conversation, she tells me what about digging stuff out of the ground excites her, moving to Paris and the life there, and what an average day at a museum looks like when you’re not a tour guide.

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Rishi Sood. I met Rishi back in 2010 - we were classmates and lived in the same residence block during our time in college - Mukh East! In today’s conversation, we start off chatting about his early career and happening life in Ahemdabad and why he decided to study for the civil services but ended up at business school. He tells me about the challenges he’s had to face due to his disability and what’s it like running a truck dealership in UP!

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Aishwarya. I met Aishwarya back in university in 2010. Over the last decade, she has taken a winding path towards her goal of being in politics. We chat about how she started off working at the grassroots in Delhi, then with refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, and her experiences through that, and why she decided to leave it all to come back to India and organize election rallies in the middle of the pandemic! This conversation is broken into 3 parts - each roughly 30 mins - so you can either listen to it all at once or break it up. In Part 1 we chat about her early career working with migrants workers in Delhi and what that thought her, in Part 2 we talk about her life in the Middle East, and in Part 3 she tries to convince me why politics is good!

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Neilabh. I met Neilabh back in university in 2010 where he studied history. A decade later, he continues to follow his curiosity and is currently pursuing his PHD in the Netherlands. Like most conversations with other PHDs on the show, this one too was a fascinating one as we chatted about his research work studying images and how that help understand the evolution of society to where it is today. We also chat about the future of technology, the weather and its impact on one’s mood, and a little bit about an infamous event when we were back in college.

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On today’s show, I’m speaking with Kevin. I met Kevin back in university in 2011 and he was in the same department as I was. After graduating, he went to work in finance and lived the high-flying banker life before realizing he wanted to more than merely increase profits and shareholders returns. He decided to enter impact investing and eventually landed up as employee #3 at a fintech startup. The startup didn’t become a unicorn as he had hoped for, but the experience taught him so much about what it takes to build a company, and we deep dive into that and more in our conversation.

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