30 Minute Chat

30-Minute Chat (or 3MC, as the cool kids are calling it) is a platform that gets students interested in a career, request a one-off, 30-minute chat with someone a few steps ahead of them for career insights, CV reviews (or both!). 

After my first startup – bkynd – didn’t quite take off, I was walking in the park, wondering what to do. I wished there was another social impact startup founder I could talk to that was a few steps ahead. Just to get their insight. But I couldn’t think of anyone. That feeling of a lack of access to someone doing what I wanted to do took me back to when I was younger and wanted to break into law. And that was really the lightbulb moment. 

I started by making a profile for just me and offering it to law students at my old university. I got my first chat with a Ph.D. student, who was deliberating about entering into the social impact tech world, too. The magic moment was the sense of connection I felt after doing something so simple as sharing my career insights to help someone with their own journey. This was when I thought there was something worth building, so I went from there.