Product Engineer by Day, Venture Capitalist by Night - balancing two worlds for the past four months
Over the past 4 months, I've been wearing multiple hats in the startup ecosystem: doing product/engineering work at CommandBar, interning at Cowboy Ventures, and supporting diverse founders through the Envision Accelerator. This is the story of how and why I did it. I’ll be talking about how I structured my schedule, why doing this made sense to me, connecting both the venture and engineering roles, and what I learned. Why I did itI had been wanting to break into venture for a long time,...
Product Engineer by Day, Venture Capitalist by Night - balancing two worlds for the past four months
Over the past 4 months, I've been wearing multiple hats in the startup ecosystem: doing product/engineering work at CommandBar, interning at Cowboy Ventures, and supporting diverse founders through the Envision Accelerator. This is the story of how and why I did it. I’ll be talking about how I structured my schedule, why doing this made sense to me, connecting both the venture and engineering roles, and what I learned. Why I did itI had been wanting to break into venture for a long time,...
2b or not 2b
A review of my first term back in person at Waterloo after 2 years. That is the question I asked myself all term long - the killer term in systems design engineering that makes you question if you should be here in the first place. This term also had a special place in my heart - the first time back on campus after almost two years of being separated from my class during the pandemic. Although things weren't completely back to normal, classes were operating on a hybrid model where you ca...
2b or not 2b
A review of my first term back in person at Waterloo after 2 years. That is the question I asked myself all term long - the killer term in systems design engineering that makes you question if you should be here in the first place. This term also had a special place in my heart - the first time back on campus after almost two years of being separated from my class during the pandemic. Although things weren't completely back to normal, classes were operating on a hybrid model where you ca...
My journey to Microsoft, from failure to discovering something new
Summer 2019 — the beginningMy journey to Microsoft started in the summer of 2019, when I took a leap of faith and said yes to the Girls Make Games fellowship, living in Seattle to teach game development at an Xbox camp. What I didn’t know, that this summer is what made me want to work at Microsoft. Microsoft was a hub of creativity and enablement — from their game studios, collaboration tools, computer and office software — they had it all. I loved how much they value accessibility and inclus...
My journey to Microsoft, from failure to discovering something new
Summer 2019 — the beginningMy journey to Microsoft started in the summer of 2019, when I took a leap of faith and said yes to the Girls Make Games fellowship, living in Seattle to teach game development at an Xbox camp. What I didn’t know, that this summer is what made me want to work at Microsoft. Microsoft was a hub of creativity and enablement — from their game studios, collaboration tools, computer and office software — they had it all. I loved how much they value accessibility and inclus...
