Hari Parthasarathy is 1 of 50 UC Berkeley M.E.T (Management Entrepreneurship & Technology) Class of 26' student (prev VP of student board), and currently at NASA GeneLab conducting research on genomics.
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00:00 - Right femur injury motivation: Neurosurgery, Dermatology
02:12 - Road to NASA
03:10 - 2 Key Observation of the “Doctorpreneur” from Stanford
08:41 - Don’t Cold Email Internships Like This
13:39 - High School Startup Teammate turned Mentor
15:18 - BE KIND. BE USEFUL. BE TECHNICALLY DEEP.
16:29 - Don’t Expect Anything in Return.
18:01 - Problem Solving 1
22:37 - specialising vs being broad (i know.. there’s a twist tho)
28:55 - side projects
30:02 - Problem Solving 2
34:29 - 5 days weekends
39:10 - systems that “kill 2 birds with 1 stone”
43:33 - how to actually say “no” to an opportunity
51:31 - little piece of paper for each semester
56:35 - Diary of a CEO
58:28 - UC Berkeley MET
01:03:51 - vs UPenn M&T
01:04:32 - “UC Berkeley is too competitive”
01:10:26 - What’s the goal? 4.0 GPA? Internships?
01:17:01 - NotebookLM
01:19:12 - Projects vs Exams
01:21:39 - Genome Browsers for Smallpox Research
01:26:53 - The Unsolvable Equation
01:29:58 - what is even “value”?
01:41:38 - cool biotech startup trends
01:48:29 - exponential growth
01:52:18 - hari’s future vision
01:53:41 - how many hours of sleep do you normally get?
01:55:01 - one of the best podcast we’ve ever had
NOTE: “Problem Solving” are the stories that Hari shared discussing a UNIQUE experience where he contributed interesting strategies to build his personality!