Uber with Nandini: From Investment Banking & Consulting to Director at Uber and Growing its Fastest Market

On this episode, Kaushik is joined by Nandini, Head of Business Development, Uber, South Asia and India, and Director @ Uber. Prior to Uber, she worked in Investment Banking in JP Morgan's TMT Group in New York. She's had an accelerated career in a very short period of time. 

Nandini heads up BD for Uber's South Asia & India business - one of its fastest growing markets, with 1bn+ people. She joined pre-IPO, helped build its South Asia business (achieving 50x growth in 4 years), and now builds the whole Uber platform there (Rides, Eats and more). She spent 3+ years in Investment Banking at JP Morgan's Technology, Media & Telecom Group as an Associate. 

Topics covered:
- Serving as a Director at Uber and Head of Business Development for one of its largest markets - in a short period of time
- How her experience in JP Morgan TMT Investment Banking helped her. Why she thinks finance or consulting is the best place to start laying the foundation for a career - but staying too long might impact your ability to work in a fast-paced growth company
- Why she chose JP Morgan as well as TMT 
- Her experiences at Uber - joining pre-IPO, helping Uber go public, heading business development of the Uber platform in the fastest growth market in the world, being an executive at Uber 
- How to think about exit options from a finance / consulting career. What do ex-bankers and consultants do well in a fast-growth company, and what can they do better
- How the first 5 years of your career is about discovering what you're good at 
- Why she chose Uber - believe in the mission, role that is not too narrow, grow really fast 
- Technology is integral in everything that we do and will increasingly be so - what does that mean for business, finance students
- Some mistakes over her career