Across The Lines Angie and Jay

This week we’re excited to share our third season career advice compilation. In our episodes, we ask our guests “what is one piece of contrarian advice you would give?”

There were so many gems in those answers and we wanted to share them for you to incorporate into your own careers. You'll hear from Debby Soo, Nick Mehta, Dave Liu, Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh, Sandro Roco, and Sriram Krishnan who are several of our wonderful third season guests.

Angie & Jay

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In this episode, we’ll be reflecting on our second season! Creating and building this podcast has been such an insightful and rewarding journey. In this week's episode, our team reflects on the joys, challenges, and learnings of Season 3. We'll be speaking about the following:


Our reflections and learnings from the past year   
Aligning your career decisions based on where you receive your energy
The balance between creative energy and being disciplined 
Ankita's decision to leave the podcast 
On the perceiving risk from the lens of our parents  

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Sriram Krishnan is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, investing in early-stage startups. He is also a social media product veteran who previously held leadership roles at Twitter, Snap, and Facebook. Along with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy, he hosts the "Good Time Show" on Clubhouse which covers interesting people in the world of technology, sports, and entertainment. He also publishes "The Observer Effect".

In this episode we spoke with Sriram about the following:


How he navigated being a rebel in a conformist culture
What he learned working alongside Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey
Why he believes creating content and building a personal brand online is an infinite game

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Sandro Roco is the Founder & CEO of Sanzo, the 1st Asian Inspired sparkling water made with real fruit and no sugar. Prior to founding Sanzo, Sandro spent 5 years as head of growth and then chief-of-staff at Bombfell, a twice venture-backed personal styling service for men. He previously worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and as a nuclear power engineer for Exelon.

Sandro is also a board member and founding member of Naturally New York, which brings people, products and passion together to strengthen and build the New York natural products community.

In this episode, we spoke with Sandro about:


Why the biggest thing he learned in his twenties was how to reframe risk
How he thinks about the idea of authenticity for Sanzo
Why it’s detrimental for founders to be massive generalists when trying to build a successful startup

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Neha is the CEO and Founder of Contentstack, a platform adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart to manage their content experience. Previously, Neha was the Founder and CEO of Built.io, which was acquired by Software AG in September 2018. Alongside her work with Contentstack, Neha is the Host of the Dreammakers, a podcast that hosts conversations between trailblazing female leaders.

In this episode, we spoke with Neha about:


Why she thinks resilience is the most important trait for entrepreneurs
How helping others helped her develop the confidence to overcome setbacks
Changing her subconscious thinking to not allow herself to feel like an imposter

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Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh is the Executive Vice President of Global Success and Strategy at Salesforce, focused on creating sustainable customer success. Neeracha also serves as Executive Advisor for the Salesforce Women’s Network and is the executive sponsor for Asiapacforce, the employee group for members of Asia-Pacific origin and their allies.

Before joining Salesforce in 2009, Neeracha held various leadership roles at Oracle. She currently also serves as a board member for both the Girl Scouts of Northern California and for Safe & Sound, a San Francisco nonprofit focused on the eradication of child abuse.

In this episode we spoke with Neeracha about the following:


How growing up as the oldest daughter of Thai immigrants impacted how she showed up in the workplace early in her career
Why one of the best pieces of advice she received was to state her own needs and ask for what she wants
How she code switches when she’s doing business in the US versus in Asia

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