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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:41 - Nirmit’s childhood
04:33 - Starting his first company
08:21 - Company to impress a girl
12:00 - How he went to America
12:42 - How he ended up at Stanford
17:44 - How he worked for Apple
19:40 - Job interview at Apple
21:39 - The importance of quality in a product
22:31 - Tim Cook, excellency at scale
26:02 - His learnings from Intel
32:58 - Japan’s brain branding
35:06 - His learnings from Apple
38:08 - How Apna started
43:05 - Difference between blue collar jobs & white collar jobs
50:00 - India’s unique problem
55:26 - How does a company become a unicorn
1:05:14 - Thank you!
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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, we have Nirmit Parikh in conversation with Raj Shamani. He is the Founder and CEO of Apna which is one of India’s largest jobs and professional networking platforms.
In this episode, we talked about how when he was 19, he started his first company. He then shared the backstory of starting that company Cruxbox to impress his girlfriend, and then how he ended up doing a master's, interning at Intel, and then working at Apple. He then shared his experience working at Apple and what makes Apple so excellent at what it does. He also shared one learning he learned while working at Intel and Apple. We discussed an interesting story of how Apna got big and what worked for it.
Towards the end, we talked about what are blue-collar and white-collar jobs and how we can define them. He shared interesting statistics about Apna’s business. We discussed the problems that India is currently facing and how we can solve them. We ended our conversation by talking about how without even generating much revenue, Apna became a unicorn company and how does a company become a unicorn. If you want to listen to more such interesting episodes then subscribe to our channel.
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26 июн 2024
