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27 Jul 2026, 22:21
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Over the past few years, I've deliberately built a cross-functional career across finance, ESG, product, customer success, operations, business development, and marketing. My long-term ambition is to become a startup operator before eventually building my own company.
- B.Sc. Economics & Finance, Queen Mary University of London (70%)
- Awarded a 100% scholarship covering tuition, accommodation, and living expenses
- Summer School at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
- Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification
- The Scindia School (10th 91% & 12th 90%)
Tape A Tale (Current)
- Building the Business Development function from scratch for India's largest storytelling platform
- Defining customer segments, outbound strategy, CRM processes, partnerships, and sales pipeline
- Employee #7, working across Product, Customer Success, Operations, and Business Development
- Managed £200k+ MRR enterprise portfolio
- Led onboarding for 50+ enterprise clients
- Launched 20+ white-label products
- Built enterprise data integrations and automated reporting pipelines
- Worked closely with founders on product strategy and commercial growth
- Led ESG strategy and sustainability reporting
- Integrated climate risk into a £2B lending portfolio
- Supported a £20M green lending programme
- Reported directly to the Chief Strategy/Product Officer
- M&A and market research across multiple sectors
- Internships in consulting and finance
Leadership & Achievements
- Davis Projects for Peace Award ($10,000 grant) to launch Humsafar, a mental health initiative for underprivileged children in India
- Finalist – PIEoneer Awards
- Entrepreneurship competition winner at Queen Mary University
- Duke of Edinburgh Award (Bronze & Silver)
Over the past few years, I've deliberately built a cross-functional career across finance, ESG, product, customer success, operations, business development, and marketing. My long-term ambition is to become a startup operator before eventually building my own company.
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03 Aug 2026, 05:41
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17 Aug 2026, 21:42
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Hi AstitvaJindal
Thanks for posting. Here is our assessment after evaluating your profile.
A reader handling a cross-functional early-career file like this one tends to do two things simultaneously: credit the breadth as evidence of adaptability, then immediately ask whether any of it added up to ownership of a result. For this profile, the answer is yes in places, but the file has to make that explicit.
- The Perse role is the strongest piece here, and also the one most likely to be undersold. Employee #7 at a Google-backed startup, managing a £200k+ MRR portfolio and working directly with founders on product strategy, is a genuinely unusual level of commercial exposure for someone four years out. The admissions risk is that a resume listing Product, Customer Success, Operations, and BD in sequence reads as broad involvement rather than accountable leadership; the essays have to pick one or two moments where a decision you made moved a number, and be specific about the stakes.
- The goal of becoming a startup operator before founding your own company is coherent with the background, but "startup operator" tends to disappear at the goals-essay stage unless the school's ecosystem can connect you to something specific. Which sector, which stage, what gap in your current skill set the MBA actually closes, and why this school's network gets you there: those four answers are what separate a vague founder story from one that reads as credible and researched.
The scholarship, the Davis grant, and the Allica climate-risk work at £2B scale are all differentiators, but the lever that moves this case most is the Perse narrative, told with numbers and accountability rather than scope.
Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed. Contact us directly - submit a query here.
Thanks for posting. Here is our assessment after evaluating your profile.
A reader handling a cross-functional early-career file like this one tends to do two things simultaneously: credit the breadth as evidence of adaptability, then immediately ask whether any of it added up to ownership of a result. For this profile, the answer is yes in places, but the file has to make that explicit.
- The Perse role is the strongest piece here, and also the one most likely to be undersold. Employee #7 at a Google-backed startup, managing a £200k+ MRR portfolio and working directly with founders on product strategy, is a genuinely unusual level of commercial exposure for someone four years out. The admissions risk is that a resume listing Product, Customer Success, Operations, and BD in sequence reads as broad involvement rather than accountable leadership; the essays have to pick one or two moments where a decision you made moved a number, and be specific about the stakes.
- The goal of becoming a startup operator before founding your own company is coherent with the background, but "startup operator" tends to disappear at the goals-essay stage unless the school's ecosystem can connect you to something specific. Which sector, which stage, what gap in your current skill set the MBA actually closes, and why this school's network gets you there: those four answers are what separate a vague founder story from one that reads as credible and researched.
The scholarship, the Davis grant, and the Allica climate-risk work at £2B scale are all differentiators, but the lever that moves this case most is the Perse narrative, told with numbers and accountability rather than scope.
Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed. Contact us directly - submit a query here.
AstitvaJindal
