Sidharth Prasad had the privilege of being selected to undertake his summer internship and consecutively, the Management Trainee program at Asian Paints, an 80-year-old legacy brand in the FMCD sector.
In this candid conversation about finance careers, fintech, investment banking, private equity, wealth management and social media, Vaibhav Jain, IIM Indore Alum, currently at Wealthdesk, Ex Deutsche Bank and Edelweiss, continues his career story and experiences. Vaibhav shares how he decided to quit Deutsche Bank and investment banking to move on to work with wealth management and private equity at Edelweiss. He shares how he started sharing his experiences, investment tips and learnings from major market movements on LinkedIn. This gave Vaibhav the ability to ease into his role as a wealth management consultant helping HNIs with private equity and investing. He tells us how, despite being an introvert, he managed to overcome his personal limitations and manage a role that required skills in sales and people management.
An Infosys Moment In SaaS In 1999, Infosys became the first Indian IT company to enlist on the NASDAQ stock exchange with USD 100 million. This event provided the Indian IT industry a jump start it needed to become a global source of IT talent & services and turned its employees into millionaires overnight. Fast forward 22 years, the cloud-based SaaS start-up, Freshworks repeated the history by getting listed on NASDAQ after a billion-dollar IPO. Will this be the herald of a new era of Indian IT’s global dominance or a fluke?
XIM University successfully conducted its Eighth Convocation in the hybrid mode on Friday, 29th April 2022 at 5:30 PM for its Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes.
SaaS solutions are one of the most rapidly expanding sectors of the IT Services industry. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is becoming the go-to for many enterprises for a variety of reasons, including flexibility, functionality, and affordability.
In this conversation, Nabh Gupta, Head (Editorial & Content Partnership) at IMDb, shares the highlights of his career in the media and entertainment space. He takes us through his experience working on social media marketing for Gangs of Wasseypur, Mirzapur and more. As a part of Viacom 18 and then Amazon, Nabh pioneered social media marketing for entertainment channels and programs. Nabh shares the skills he picked up as a brand manager, and further talks about how sales is an important aspect of any marketing job. He takes us through his journey at Viacom 18 working on social media for Gangs of Wasseypur, his first full-scale project. He shares how hype marketing and meme marketing became the cornerstones when it comes to social media marketing. Nabh also shares his experience creating memes for Mirzapur and making it a viral phenomenon across engineering colleges (and everywhere else) in India.
In this second and final part of this conversation, Aviral Bhatnagar talks about how he never stepped foot in a consulting firm although he always wanted to. How his love for venture capital grew during his time at Morgan Stanley and what made him take LinkedIn seriously after his Quora success. Hear him talk about the things he keeps in mind before investing now in any startup, how he uses his time productively and what skills should you look to acquire to make things work in your favour.
If you thought ‘EX’ refers to that person, whom you’re trying to banish from your memory forever, you’re mistaken by a long way! Read on to discover why, as well as other eye-opening facts about the nuances of a Human Resource Management career, the changing job roles, and why it’s a great choice to opt for in India.
