Beyond the Degree

Florian shares the motivation behind his shift from Mathematics to Law, how to study it, and what he thinks the future has in store for it.

Henry shares with us how he managed to maintain balance as a driven business student with high aspirations, how it affected his perspective towards and beyond a degree, and how it helped him end up as an investment banker at Lazard.

In this episode of Beyond the Degree, Talal and Angad speak to Mohamad Sawwaf, the Co-Founder and CEO of Manzil, an Islamic Financing and Investing company. Manzil helps Canadians actively participate in Halal investments. Talal and Angad also speak to Mohamad how he managed and still manages to stay sane throughout the demanding process of undergrad, post-grad, and now being the face of a startup.

Savana Elsays, shares how she shifted gears from pursuing a medical degree to becoming a talent acquisition specialist at SnapTravel and why she decided to immerse herself in the technology industry. Can studying pharmacy give you any advantages in the tech sector? What general characteristics are the employers in the tech sector looking for? Listen to Savana's insightful, insider take on these questions and many more in this episode.

In this episode of Beyond The Degree we defy the constraints of our name and hear what cannabis entrepreneur Mackenzie Ferguson has to say about dropping out of UofT to start working on Verda - “The UberEats For Weed”. He discusses balancing university alongside working on a startup and what it's like to be at the crest of a growing tsunami of an industry.

In this Episode of Beyond the Degree, we sit down with Edward Smith-Windsor, a Rotman Commerce graduate who shares with us his advice on how to obtain the most elite jobs in finance, what makes a great investor and why most people enter finance for the wrong reasons.

In this episode, we sit down with Nish Samantray - entrepreneur, developer, and many other things - to find out what advice he has for U of T students, undergraduates in general, and anybody who's got a burgeoning project or is looking to start one.

In the debut episode of Beyond the Degree, Talal and Tate have a chat with Ystallonne Alves, a young quantum computer scientist from Brazil currently developing technology to render images using quantum computers. Our music is produced by Pranav Vaidyanathan, and to stay updated on our latest guests and episodes, go and follow our Instagram page @beyond_podcast. Episode notes: 0:25: Meet Ystallone. 1:18: Brazil vs. Canada - post secondary education and entrepreneurship. 5:53: CDL program and meeting his co founder. 7:37: Introduction to quantum computing. 11:25: What is quantum computing? 15:37: Quantum computing today. 20:00: Boxcat. 25:50:  Talent defecit in quantum. 27:00: Quantum and its implications. 31:00: Quantum in Toronto. 33:17: Bringing quantum to farms. 35:12: Quantum machine learning. 36:53: Google's new quantum processor. 39:25: Tips for the next generation of quantum innovators.