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Breaking down the disconnect between personal and professional.
Chris reflects on how his time as a mechanical engineering student and working in a rotational program helped him learn the skills needed to co-found the business he helps run today.
(0:00) Intro
(4:20) High school: applications, engineering internship
(11:30) freshman year Chris
(12:00) Park Scholarship
(16:15) Why Chris chose mechanical, if he’d change it?
(20:30) Senior Chris - rotational programs
(25:05) Chris’s ABB “PALS” Rotational program
(33:10) Other ABB roles
(35:30) Credibility of an engineering degree
(39:40) Chris’s entrepreneurial project - VC Labs
(44:30) Identifying Interests - how to identify interests!
(50:30) Q&A - biggest screw up
(54:40) Q&A - what’s your perfect project
DUMB IT DOWN
Breaking down the disconnect between personal and professional.
