The Inside Show

As I pass out of IIT Ropar and move on to to my professional life, I wanted to make a 'signing off' podcast episode of the journey at IIT. For this, I gathered 4 of my best friends and had a candid conversation about our college lives. We ended up recording for over 2 hours and we could just keep adding memories about these incredible 4 years. I feel immensely grateful and privileged to have met so many inspiring people and have such vivid learning experiences in these 4 years but now with a heavy heart and huge dreams, I must say goodbye.  Signing Off: Shreyas Jadhav, Kartik Arjaria, Srinidhi Reddy, Ayush Mantri & Ashwin Goyal Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

"Being the first batch at IIT Ropar, we had no choice but to start from scratch and work outside our comfort zone, and now after 10 years, I can see how those days influenced me in building Treebo from 1x to 100x..." ~ Puneet Puri, Ex-Vice President Treebo Hotels, Ex-Software Engg Samsung, Georgia Tech MBA

"If UPSC didn't work out, I was not worried about finding some corporate job given my engineering background. I was willing to try for all 6 attempts of the UPSC, if that's what it took to become an IAS Officer..." ~ IAS Rahul Gupta, UPSC AIR 20, IIT Ropar Electrical Engineering

"Whatever you're doing, give it your very best. Later you wouldn't regret trying something and failing, but it would hurt having the feeling of not giving it your best effort..." ~ Anshul Garg Project Leader, Management Consulting, BCG CFA Level I & II IIM Calcutta 2015, Institute Rank 8 CAT 2012, 100 percentile IIT Ropar Electrical 2013, Department Rank 1

This Episode Covers (in 30 mins) 1. The Power of Networking 2. Why Side Hustling is Important 3. How to Side Hustle effectively 4. Whether or not to Start Up in college 5. Key Learnings to be taken from IITs

A short and insightful conversation recommended for all foreign masters enthusiasts with our Alumnus from IIT Ropar 2012 Batch who further went on to complete his MS from University of Washington, USA.

"No one says that 'I can work hard in Investment Banking', like, hard work is hygiene. Everyone is working extremely hard, 80-hour workweeks. You'll have to bring something else to the table to break in..." ~ Rutvik Malekar, IB JP Morgan NY, IIT, IIM

"In the end you need to choose, if you'd rather be a small part in a big machine or build your own damn Tesla instead..." ~Akshat Pandey The Episode Covers: 1. IIT College Life & Opportunities 2. Seniors, Internships & Extra-Curriculars 3. Early Flipkart & Cure.Fit Exposure 4. Demystifying Networking 5. Dealing with early failures in building start-ups 6. Breaking into Start-ups  

"It is very important to keep your eyes open, because there is opportunity everywhere. From a small Facebook group we were able to build a dentistry community of over 53,000 dentists and are now changing the dynamics of the industry completely. And also, without sales, ideas are pretty much worthless.."  ~ Abhijeet Singh   The Episode Covers: 1. How does the Life of a CEO look at NineTen? 2. Industry Opportunity and Innovation.. 3. Entrepreneurship for college students? 4. How are Facebook Groups a place to do business? How exactly are they helping? 5. Story behind being a Business & Executive Coach.

The Episode Covers: 1. How the Corona Pandemic will shape your careers? 2. Bouncing back from a near death experience... 3. What is consulting? Why people enjoy it? 4. LinkedIn marketing and how to be efficient while using it? 5. What drives do people have while making their career choice? 6. Life at IIT vs IIM vs Work Life

"The UPSC exam makes you realize that you know nothing. From Core technical knowledge to World Politics, the nuances of how the world works will intrigue you beyond imagination...Surely it won't be easy, but it will be worth it" The Episode Covers: 1. Why the IIT tag matters? 2. The carefree college life and opportunities 3. How to decide what career path is for you? 4. How to crack the UPSC? More detailed analysis of the UPSC exam 5. A few lines for all students. It was super exciting to dive into the transformative UPSC journey one of IIT Ropar's Alumni from the EE 2011 batch, Mr. Ashish Samuel. The most powerful parts of the conversation have been converted to one podcast episode for all of you to understand and experience his story.

"I experienced the joy of learning and found myself change completely across those two years at IIM Ahmedabad. Accelerated learning of life is all what IIM A teaches.." ~ Mr. Sri Ram Prasad. Special Thanks to Ahsaas Sharma (Finance Committee IIT Ropar, Mentor) for being an amazing Co-Host and making the conversation much more valuable for the CAT Aspirants. Subscribe to The Inside Show for more such interesting conversations.

It was exciting and adventurous, getting to understand such an amazing perspective towards career and work satisfaction of one of IIT Ropar's Alumni from the ME 2008 batch, Mr. Aayush Ghosh. The most powerful parts of the conversation have been converted to one podcast episode for all of you to understand and experience his story.

In today's episode we go inside one of IIT Ropar's Alumni from the CSE 2008 batch, Mr. Digvijay Singh. I have had the privilege to talk to such a great personality and understand how one goes from being a shy introvert in school to leading teams and being a senior developer at Amazon in Washington, USA. His story highlights how joining an IIT is only the beginning of one's journey. This has all been converted to one podcast episode for all of you to understand and experience his story.