In this episode, I interview my colleague from Bain Capital Ventures, Ayushi Sinha. Ayushi just finished her first year at Harvard Business School. Previously, she had roles in big tech, startups, and venture capital. Ayushi gives us the tea on what life is really like at HBS, discusses the ups and downs of her application process, and breaks open the gatekept industry of venture capital. Let’s jump in.

You can reach Ayushi at [email protected]

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⌚Timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open
0:46 Podcast Intro
1:55 Who Ayushi Sinha
2:39 Her roles after Princeton
4:24 How she started investing
5:02 Her first investment deal at BCV
8:44 Venture Capital demystified
9:35 VC 101: early stage investing
10:48 VC 101: later stage “growth” investing
12:58 2+2 MBA application thinking
15:01 Why Harvard Business School?
16:11 HBS entrepreneurship program
17:12 Harvard Rock Summer Fellows
18:06 Her summer internship
19:20 How she measures success
22:23 Applying her MBA learning
23:23 She had low expectations for HBS
27:07 No experience? Make your own experience
27:50 Dating at Harvard Business School
31:24 Biggest takeaway from her first year
32:59 Hot or Not: HBS edition
35:04 MBA spending broken down
38:59 Corporate email signoffs
40:47 Podcast takeaways

ABOUT ME
Hello friends, thanks for watching! My name is Cherie and I'm a content creator, Stanford MBA student, & former LinkedIn senior product manager I share personal career stories on Cherie's Corner Podcast via YouTube and Instagram, so you can learn from my friends and our successes and failures, all while owning our authentic selves and living happier lives.