About Mahek:
Mahek Hooda is a Product Manager at Microsoft. She started her career in the supply chain but constantly focused on the end goal of moving to product. She showed persistence in face of rejections but kept moving forward - embracing her uniqueness and leveraging her skillset. Hear her story, it is truly inspiring.
She talks about:
How to embrace your uniqueness
Taking risk and experimenting
Showing persistence in the face of failure
Leveraging your skills, assets, and network to maximize your impact
Check out his website for more info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahekhooda/
About Rakesh:
A recent graduate from the University of Michigan focused on Computer Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship. Currently, he is working as a PM at Microsoft.Incoming Grad Student with a focus on CS: ML, Quant at Harvard University. He previously worked with various firms in a mix of product, strategy, and software engineering roles: Google, Uber, SpaceX, Facebook, Single store. He also loves to spend his time looking at new venture investments, closely working with VC firms like Soma Capital, Heartland VC, Unshackled VC, etc. He spends his time experimenting with various product ideas within the realms of the venture.
About 'The NAG Show':
Join Rakesh as he interviews people from various domains of expertise. He dives in with deep informal conversations about their unique experiences, tactics, strategies implemented, learnings from failures, and optimized systems and processes that eventually made them who they are. Topics primarily deal with tech, venture, startups & entrepreneurship, product, and everyday life.
Don't worry too much about the destination, focus on the journey - Mahek Hooda, Product Manager - Microsoft