Candidate:

Mr. Hustler

About Me:

Product & Growth Leader, I love building user-focused products that solve problems and help businesses grow. Unbolted growth for businesses across diversified industries at scale ($200 Mn+) across the APAC region. Now accelerating Product led Growth for a Fintech (SaaS) building payments infra, BNPL product(s) for 120 Mn+ MSMEs/SMBs in India.

Schools:

See More Profiles For: Harvard

Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Sathyabama University

Undergrad Major: Business Administration

GPA: 3.65

GMAT: 780

Age: 31,  Ethnicity: Asian or Indian

Extracurriculars: Chief Volunteer- I run an NGO that focuses on Women & Youth Empowerment, Children Rights, and Animal Care, Volunteering- Nation Building Campaign, Government of India, Early Stage Entrepreneurial Mentorship- I was the youngest invited mentor to coach college entrepreneurs at the Entrepreneurship Program of India's finest Business School

Work History:

Title: AVP & Head of Product

Industry: Technology

Company: Start-Up

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 1 mos

Title: Head- New Products

Industry: Transportation

Company: Start-Up

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 3 mos

Big Life Wins:

1. Hot100 Tech Startups Winner
2. Great Companies Award
3. Most Impactful Employee of the Month / Quarter Award
4. Youngest Mentor Award
5. Been ahead of my time, experimented with a lot of Product ideas early on which are in trends now

Post MBA Goal:

Start in a Product Management Leadership role at a growth stage startup, or a Senior Product Management role at a Big tech company.

Odds:

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The Experts Rate The Odds At: 18%

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  • John A. Byrne, P&Q Founder & Editor-In-Chief | Odds Assessment: 10%

    You have a lot going for you. You are clearly a go-getter, with a successful entrepreneurial track record. And you have a high GMAT. If you had gone to one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), which collectively provided 12 members of Harvard’s Class of 2020, and your startup sold something other than vapes, I would be far more optimistic about your chances at HBS. But at Harvard, your feeder college counts because you’re competing in the pool against others who have graduated from a feeder college. And in U.S. admission circles, there’s a politically correct bias that may make some look askance at your success selling vapes in India. The more recent barrage of U.S. media reports on the health risks of vaping …

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  • Odds Assessment: 20%

    Hi, this is Deepak Punwani from MBA Exchange. If only your first start up wasn’t about vaping but about something in area of providing clean energy to the masses (for example), your chances would be so much higher ! That said, initially vaping was seen as a safer alternative to smoking those ciggies, so if you started in 2016 or thereabouts vaping wasnt such a bad name then. If you can show that you evolved your views with the research and actually decided to move away from Vaping before Juul became a four letter word and India banned Vaping, you can actually play this to your advantage. And e-scooters is a “hot” industry and if you are at Bounce / Vogo kind of firm then …

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  • Gatehouse Admissions Odds Assessment: 15%

    Wow – there is a ton more I’d like to learn more about! For ex, how you’ve turned opportunities into wins, how you’ve leveraged your learnings from the vaping start-up to the mobility start-up, and how you’ve helped other aspiring entrepreneurs find their own success. Other things to think about: why business school at all? I know you see it as a springboard (and it is one, of course!) – but what do you really want to gain from business school that you didn’t in undergrad business, and why is mgmt. consulting calling your name? You might find – after the fast-paced and “do whatever it takes” spirit of start-ups – that mgmt. consulting or an LDP type role …

    4 years ago Read the full review
  • mbaMission Odds Assessment: 25%

    Mr. Hustler! Krista Nannery from mbaMission here. Now you have an interesting story! But I agree with John on the vaping thing…b-schools in the US may not know what to do with that given all the negative press here. So here’s my question for you…how do you feel about vaping, now that you’ve left the business? Maybe there’s a way to talk about this honestly in the optional essay…I just think AdComs will raise an eyebrow or two so you might as well get in front of it. (To be fair, b-schools seem to like Big Tobacco so the question is why is vaping more problematic. I don’t know if I have a good answer for that but I think there’s probably some recency bias …

    4 years ago Read the full review

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