What the HAT!?

About the guest: After getting his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Daksh worked as a Business Operations Manager and Product Manager at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail. Daksh currently does Business Development for Know My World, a nonprofit organization that supports teachers in transforming the educational experience through holistic education and cultural competencies. He is also on the board of directors for Know my World. Daksh is the host of Dollar Gujarati and lives with his wife Jaynee in Dallas, Texas.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakshudayshah/

Key Insights in this Episode:

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Timestamps:

[02:00] What is Dollar Gujarati?

[06:00] Should you do an MBA directly after bachelors?

[14:00] Job options after MBA

[20:00] Why is sales important?

[22:00] Working for a non-profit

[28:30] How to get selected to become a board member

[30:00] Long distance relationship

[35:00] Advice to younger-self

[40:00] TOP 3

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About What the HAT!?

We are three friends who met in our engineering college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances in this show. Each guest has a different journey, different story, and different insights.  We are connecting and learning from people who have carved their journeys from creating funded startups in India to key roles in big companies. We are talking to people who went to Ivy League colleges and are academicians in India. We are working on gathering stories from these great minds.

This is the podcast for you if you are currently pursuing or have completed engineering. If you haven't studied engineering, this podcast is still for you, as we will dwell deep into various industries and sectors such as finance, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, chemical, education, and a lot more.

Each journey is inspiring. Each story gives you an opportunity to learn something new.

Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people.

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About the guest: Kripa Jalan is the founder of Burgers to Beasts that helps people live a balanced lifestyle. Kripa believes that there is a lot more to fitness than just losing weight and a lot of factors play into your decisions with food. At Burgers to Beasts, they consider all these factors in helping you build a holistic lifestyle.

In this episode, we go over Kripa’s personal journey and her fight against her deep-rooted fear of food, how she started creating awareness around health and fitness through her blog, and why she decided to pursue a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University!

Kripa believes in providing this education to the masses and is hoping to achieve this goal through Burgers to Beasts.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kripa-jalan/

Burgers to Beasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7nRY3itUKoPY_wq63Ss_w

Book a Session: https://www.burgerstobeasts.com/

Key Insights in this Episode:

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Timestamps:

[02:00] Kripa’s Journey and dealing with anorexia

[07:35] Starting Burgers to Beasts blog

[10:22] Burgers to Beasts as a company

[13:30] Top 5 tips for people starting their fitness journey

[17:30] Social Media as a double-edged sword

[20:37] Education at Harvard - Masters in Public Health

[25:15] Harvard Experience and community

[28:28] Lifestyle RX - Podcast

[32:30] Why is sugar bad for you? How to deal with sugar?

[37:55] Tips for nutritionist - pursuing this as a career

[40:45] TOP 3

We wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and  Happy Holidays! 

This year has been the best and worst of the years. But we wanted to thank each and every one of you who has helped us grow and develop this year. 

Thank you for your constant support in listening to our episodes. We really appreciate it!   

Best, 

Hiloni Punatar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilonip/ 

Atit Kothari: https://kothariatit.com/ 

Tapan Desai: https://tapandesai.com

About the guest:

Khushboo Vaidya is a STEM Career Consultant, speaker, and founder of Boarding Pass For Success. Being an engineer herself, she takes initiatives to inspire students on how to develop an application based approach towards engineering and has conducted seminars for over 4000 students.  

She also collaborates with researchers and engineers around the world with a profile of MIT, Stanford, Google, iRobot among others, and interviews them to provide quality guidance to students on her YouTube channel.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushboo-vaidya-pmp-80230949/ 

Boarding Pass For Success YouTube channel - Interviews and LIVE Webinars of engineers and researchers from diverse STEM fields like Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Data Science, AI, and many more, through which students can get access to valuable insights regarding the field, job market, industry requirements, lessons learned from experience and much more.

Boarding Pass for Success YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/BoardingPassForSuccess/videos 

Website: www.boardingpass.life 

Key Insights in this Episode:

Why pursue a Master's in Canada? [02:00]

The Idea behind starting Boarding Pass for Success [17:40]

Why should you get advice directly from people working in the field? [27:00]

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Timestamps:

[02:00] Why Masters in Canada?

[05:35] Masters Program at the University of Waterloo

[09:26] Program length and break up of the course

[10:50] Time at Blackberry

[12:45] Layoff and starting a new job at Brock Solutions

[14:15] Brock Solutions - Software Testing Specialist

[17:40] Starting Boarding Pass for Success

[27:00]  Get career advice from people who are working in that field

[28:45] STEM Career Counselling - most important lessons (initially everyone is clueless, whatever you do in college will help you in future, transferable skills are key, understand the expectations)

[33:05] Canada vs. the USA - Education

[38:45] Boarding Pass Consulting Service - Collaborators

[39:20] Top 3

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Special guest this week is a software team manager and YouTuber, coming from a humble background in India to living the American dream and having a successful YouTube channel with 93K + followers

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6WUWDl9tx7bn2e8jy7sNw

Key Insights in this Episode:

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[00:30] Why go for masters?

[04:05] Why California State University, Chico?

[07:00] Starting an Indian Club in the University

[08:00] Strategies to use in Career Fair

[11:00] Software Management

[14:00] Life as a YouTuber

[19:00] Strategies for Content Creation

[22:00] How to keep yourself motivated while creating content?

[26:00] Should you become a YouTuber?

[31:00] What’s next for Yudi?

[32:00] Resources to learn storytelling

[35:00] Advice to younger self

[36:00] TOP 3

About What the HAT!?

We are three friends who met in our engineering college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances in this show. Each guest has a different journey, different story, and different insights.  We are connecting and learning from people who have carved their journeys from creating funded startups in India to key roles in big companies. We are talking to people who went to Ivy League colleges and are academicians in India. We are working on gathering stories from these great minds.

This is the podcast for you if you are currently pursuing or have completed engineering. If you haven't studied engineering, this podcast is still for you, as we will dwell deep into various industries and sectors such as finance, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, chemical, education, and a lot more.

Each journey is inspiring. Each story gives you an opportunity to learn something new.

Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people.

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About the guest: 

Electronics and telecom Engineer, an ex-investment banker at JP Morgan, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Viram Shah has done it all. 

And now, Viram is democratizing international investing as the co-founder and CEO at Vested. Vested is an online platform that aims to simplify US stock investing, first for Indian investors and eventually for other parts of the world.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viram-shah/ 

Vested: https://vested.co.in/

Key Insights in this Episode:

Learning as an Investment Banker [03:05]

Completing an MBA in the US and the application process [05:40]

The Vested Story - how are people outside of the US able to invest in US stocks? [10:53]

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction 

[01:20] Taking up a job after undergrad

[03:05] Job as an Investment Banker at J. P. Morgan

[05:40] MBA in the US after working in India

[08:20] US MBA application process - lessons learned

[10:53] Experience at UC Berkley

[13:30] The idea behind Vested

[17:35] The Vested journey 

[21:25] Why Vested was started?

[23:40] Why is Vested VC driven? The process of onboarding VCs

[28:00] Advice for entrepreneurs 

[32:00] What’s next for Vested?

[34:20] The technology skepticism barrier in India for FinTech Industry

[36:38] TOP 3

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About What the HAT!?

We are three friends who met in our engineering college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances in this show. Each guest has a different journey, different story, and different insights.  We are connecting and learning from people who have carved their journeys from creating funded startups in India to key roles in big companies. We are talking to people who went to Ivy League colleges and are academicians in India. We are working on gathering stories from these great minds. 

This is the podcast for you if you are currently pursuing or have completed engineering. If you haven't studied engineering, this podcast is still for you, as we will dwell deep into various industries and sectors such as finance, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, chemical, education, and a lot more. 

Each journey is inspiring. Each story gives you an opportunity to learn something new.

Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people. 

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About the guest:

Mitali is an Engineer turned Entrepreneur turned Marketer. But always a consumer-first innovator.

Mitali has 6 years of experience in the Indian FMCG industry spanning across sales, marketing & innovation roles. She is currently leading innovation for Pampers brand within the baby care category in India for P&G. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitaliparekh/ 

Key Insights in this Episode:

• Should you pursue an MBA directly after graduation or gain experience first? [05:55]

• Does experience matter when you’re applying for a job after MBA? [10:40]

• Skills that you need to land a job [30:00]

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Timestamps:

[00:50] Journey from Engineering to a start-up and start-up to MBA

[05:55] Should you pursue an MBA directly after graduation or gain experience first?

[10:40] Does experience matter when you’re applying for a job after the MBA?

[13:35] Landing a job by participating in a competition in college 

[17:50] Mitali’s current role

[30:00] Skills Mitali looks for in a candidate applying for a job

[34:13] Sales to Marketing switch 

[43:14] TOP 3 

[51:45] Gender equality 

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About What the HAT!?

We are three friends who met in our engineering college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances in this show. Each guest has a different journey, different story, and different insights.  We are connecting and learning from people who have carved their journeys from creating funded startups in India to key roles in big companies. We are talking to people who went to Ivy League colleges and are academicians in India. We are working on gathering stories from these great minds. 

This is the podcast for you if you are currently pursuing or have completed engineering. If you haven't studied engineering, this podcast is still for you, as we will dwell deep into various industries and sectors such as finance, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, chemical, education, and a lot more. 

Each journey is inspiring. Each story gives you an opportunity to learn something new.

Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people. 

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About the guest:

Jimeet is a math tutor, a production stage back-hand, a disaster relief volunteer, a karateka, an IT Analyst, a Financial Developer, A Project Manager, a Key Account Manager, a Business Partner, A Director - Jimeet has played diverse roles in his career path till date.

Currently working on providing Career Counselling & Test Preparation Coaching & Advice to students and leveraging technology to build products to help students. Has counseled over 10000 students to date.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimeetsanghavi/

College Pond: https://collegepond.com/

Key Insights in this Episode:

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Timestamps:

[00:00] College Admissions Process in the late 2000s

[04:00] How to select the right master's program?

[06:40] Which country is currently best suited in the current climate?

[15:30] Jimeet Sir’s personal journey

[20:00] Day-to-day

[22:00] Advice for engineering students on how to build a portfolio

[26:00] How peer pressure is playing a role among students

[28:00] When is the right time to pursue a master's degree?

[31:00] Leveraging technology to bring collegepond alumni closer to students

[35:00] Top 3

About Cold Brew Money:

We talk about money because your friends and family won't.

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About What the HAT!?

We are three friends who met in our engineering college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances in this show. Each guest has a different journey, different story, and different insights.  We are connecting and learning from people who have carved their journeys from creating funded startups in India to key roles in big companies. We are talking to people who went to Ivy League colleges and are academicians in India. We are working on gathering stories from these great minds.

This is the podcast for you if you are currently pursuing or have completed engineering. If you haven't studied engineering, this podcast is still for you, as we will dwell deep into various industries and sectors such as finance, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, chemical, education, and a lot more.

Each journey is inspiring. Each story gives you an opportunity to learn something new.

Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people.

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