Very excited to share this episode with my college friend Jake Schwartz who knows a ton about AR/VR and has worked on both the technical product development side and commercial/business side of VR companies. He talks all about what is trending in AR/VR and hot takes ranging from which xReality is going to win and how trendy AI is influencing the space right now. 5:05 - What is AR vs VR vs MR? 7:55 - What did you do in your B2C role in VR and how did that transition to B2B? Do you focus more...

Listen in to Jackson, a carbon data analyst at a cleantech startup, describe his journey into cleantech, how today's startups and industry companies view sustainability, and tips on how to break into cleantech! 1:36 - Why did you transition to cleantech from consulting? 3:52 - What do you do at your cleantech startup? 5:55 - How a typical company would use carbon data management and their “climate journey” 8:15 - Why can’t companies measure and report carbon emissions easily themselves? Why...

Excited to share this really insightful episode with Lexi, a former process engineer at one of the top US oil & gas producers and now an R&D engineer at a cleantech startup. Listen as she shares the skills she learned in oil & gas and key lessons learned along the way. 1:20 - What it is like working in oil & gas in today's environment that is so focused on cleantech and the green energy transition 5:45 - Hard skills learned in oil & gas 9:05 - Soft skills learned in oil...

Listen to hear all about the life of Fred, a net winning professional poker player based in LA who chose to play poker as his full-time job out of undergrad instead of a traditional, salaried corporate job. 1:40 - Why did you choose poker over a traditional job out of undergrad? 4:15 - What does a week in the life look like? 10:47 - What does a day in the life look like? 13:30 - When did you realize you could play poker professionally and how did you weigh the pros and cons? 18:20 - What kind...

Grace Ling is a current Product UX Designer at Electronic Arts while also being the founder of Design Buddies, an online design community housed in Discord with over 50k members. She also draws and creates lifestyle content on TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. 1:30 - What is product UX design? How do you work with other functions? What is different about product UX in gaming vs. other industries? 7:55 - How did you go from bioengineering and computer science in undergrad to self studying UX...

Excited to share this insightful episode with my friend Yunnie who had a recent tough career transition decision on whether to stay in management consulting or exit into a private equity firm in their operations group. She walks through her decision making process and the pros/cons of each factor she considered. In the end she gives really great life advice on how she has or is overcoming her "quarter life crisis" and how her view of "success" and "happiness" has changed from reflecting on...

How do you weigh choosing between a management consulting vs. industry role out of undergrad or post MBA? What hard vs. soft skills do you learn in consulting vs. industry roles? How does the type of collaboration or the type of pressure differ between the two? Do you really experience more direct ownership in industry or more breadth of industry / functions in consulting? We dive into answering these questions and more!

Our first guest Minh, former management consultant and now product manager at a late stage startup, discusses how he overcame a layoff from a startup in mid 2022: how he overcame the initial shock, his strategy for searching for a new role and prioritizing different criteria, and his mindset in interviews, negotiations, and the overall process.

Our guest Minh, former management consultant and now product manager at a late stage startup, and I talk about our take on recent mass US tech layoffs and COVID layoffs, and how such large-scale layoffs early on in our careers have affected the mindset of today's young professionals compared to older generations. We also talk about why companies are laying off in mass, our own experiences with seeing layoffs, and what is the aftermath of layoffs in consulting firms, tech companies, and other...

This podcast is about the ups and downs of career changing in the growth-filled decade of our 20’s. The amount of uncertainty and job instability from recent mass layoffs as well as increasingly more career choices to choose from can cause young professionals to feel “behind” or unsure of what their true passion is or if the path that they are on is the right one for them. But in these tough environments comes a lot of opportunities, flexibility, and the potential to take our careers and our...