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Business Career Success Podcast by Elevate Career Network

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Business Career Success Podcast by Elevate Career Network

Jane- Goldman Sachs Investment Banking to Uber to Stanford GSB MBA to Founder- with Kaushik, Elevate

December 20, 2020 • Elevate Lab • Season 2 • Episode 4

Elevate Career Session with Professionals - featuring Jane Dong, who started her career at Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking, then joined Uber pre-IPO on their Rides then Eats teams, then recently graduated from Stanford GSB MBA, and now is a founder of an awesome DTC apparel company, Frankly. With Kaushik Ravi, Founder, Elevate (Private Equity Director & 6+ years at Goldman Sachs as VP)

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0:03:32 | First job at HF - "Do you know any acct"
0:05:34 | Similarities & Differences Goldman ECM vs. IBD
0:07:10 | Exit opportunities out of ECM
0:08:50 | Key to success at Goldman ECM - Managing up
0:11:00 | How to accelerate on the learning curve
0:12:00 | What did you look for in candidates reaching in?
0:14:30 | Foregoing Traditional Private Equity to go down Technology path
0:17:27 | Why choose technology? Which company?
0:20:00 | What types of roles to take on? What to avoid?
0:22:45 | What are technology recruiting process & interviews like?
0:26:26 | Most interesting part about roles at Uber
0:29:30 | Wearing multiple hats at high-growth start-up / trial by fire
0:31:30 | UberEats
0:35:00 | Factors in the MBA decision
0:37:40 | Deferred MBA process
0:42:00 | Maximizing your time at Stanford GSB
0:45:45 | Lessons learned for an entrepreneur
0:48:00 | How to you make short-term goals
0:50:40 | Biggest challenge as an entrepreneur - feedback loop

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