When U Grow Up You want to be a Burn the Boats Tech Disruptor

NOVEMBER 05, 2021

WHEN U GROW UP MEDIA

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 3

Mohamad Elgendi, a graduate student in Engineering Management and startup entrepreneurship, speaks with Sarah Pierce,  a startup veteran and Director of Product at Better.com.   Sharing what led her to fall in love with “disrupting a boring industry,” Mohamad and Sabrina take a memory roadtrip of her wealth of experience in trying, risk-taking, succeeding, failing, and learning all along the way

01:23   Doing everything wrong in Product Management

03:52   “You cross the river, then you burn the boats so you can’t go back”

14:15   Problem-solving as art

21:04   Employers HATE this one weird interview answer!

25:11   The excitement of disrupting a boring industry