What's On Your Mind

Amaan Ahmad is not only the Co-founder and CEO of PathFinder, but also a very dear friend to Bishr and I. In this episode, we talk about what made Amaan pursue dreams of starting an ed-tech company, the high and lows of the journey so far and the role that close relationships play in those moments. Check out PathFinder: https://pathfindereducation.ai/

From never being able to turn up to 9am lectures to being obliged to turn up to the office at 9am. The flexibility of no schedule to working a 9-5 every week. The transition from being a university student to working a full-time job is a significant adjustment for more reasons than one. In this episode, we talk about our (varying) experiences with it so far, including what we like and what we wish we could live without.

In this episode, we talk to Ciara Gibbs. Ciara is a first year PhD student in Neural Interfacing at Imperial College London, and graduated at the top of her class in Biomedical Engineering, also at Imperial, in 2022. We had the opportunity to talk about her reasons for getting into STEM, what it means to be relentlessly curious and unsatisfied and dealing with comparison, failure and discouragement.