Simone Koo Ishikawa - From Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley to fintech unicorn OakNorth and then becoming a startup advisor and Oxford MBA tutor

Welcome to the 8th episode of Inside the TeqDen, the podcast about successful entrepreneurs and the unadulterated stories about how they managed to become the innovators of today. I am your host Sina Sadrzadeh and this podcast is powered by LIFE Ventures. In this episode I spoke to Simone Koo Ishikawa, a previous investment banker at JP Morgan turned entrepreneur becoming the director of customer success at Oaknorth to now advising multiple startups and tutoring on the MBA scheme at Oxford University Business School.

We covered: 

• Why Simone decided to move into the startup space and outlines the value she can bring in an advisory capacity to startups having not been a founder herself
• Common mistakes student startups make within her university tutoring experience and how to address them
• How to adapt going from a large corporate to innovating and growing successfully within a startup

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