Manager
Joined: 21 Jun 2015
Posts: 96
Given Kudos: 38
Location: India
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Finance
GPA: 2.61
Indian male with prop trading experience and co-founder of a startup
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14 Sep 2015, 23:56
Hi,
Thank you so much for taking out the time to evaluate my profile. My credentials are:
Gender : Male
Nationality : Indian
Age : 29 years
Academics :
Xth - 83%
XIIth - 87%
Graduation : Chemical engineer from IIT Delhi (Consistently ranked among the top 2 engineering universities in India)
CGPA - 6.5/10
GMAT - 740
Work experience :
Total 48 months
* 1 year 8 months as a Proprietary trader at one of the largest prop trading firms in India. Not very famous outside India though.
* 2 years 2 months as cofounder of an educational startup that grew to 60,000 monthly users. Did not not raise venture funding. The startup has been closed.
* Managing director of family investment firm for the past 6 months. This is part-time so I don't really know how much it counts.
Extra Curriculars :
* Director of a family run Non Profit organisation that is working towards the prevention and eradication of Encephalitis. It's a small organisation currently and work has been limited to 3 districts in India.
* Captain of hostel soccer team.
International Exposure:
3 months as an International Research scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Activities & Interest:
* Traveling : Have traveled to more than 15 countries. Into exploring cultures and understanding the values and traditions of people living in different parts of our beautiful planet.
* Soccer.
Post MBA goal - Product Management at an established technology company or a high growth startup so that I can learn valuable skills I am currently lacking, and which along with the lessons from my previous startup enable me to create an organisation that significantly improves the lives of people involved.
My target schools are - Wharton, Berkeley, Kellogg, UCLA. My main considerations are Location (Silicon Valley) and placement in technology companies. I plant to apply in R2 2015-2016.
I would love to know your view on my profile, preferably the weaker points and things that can be done to mitigate the weakness in my profile.
Again, thank you for doing this.