They say you should surround yourself with people who are smarter than you – to be the dumbest one in the room. That’s how I felt in my undergrad and I couldn’t be happier about it. I realized that the people around me had so much to offer – so many thoughts and so many things to say. But, I also realized that optimistically, only a few people would listen to them - really listen to them - as they stabilized in their first jobs. This isn’t a result of a lack of ideas, but a lack of personal credibility and voice.

 

People also say the best way to learn and adapt to a new job is to just jump in and learn. While digital content provides great information, they rarely share what life is really like on the job – the knowledge and tricks of the trade that no one tells you but you figure out on your own by observing others.

 

What if, instead, we started to listen to what those others had to say? What if we absorbed knowledge and not just information by giving a voice to those others, who make the slide decks, write the code, build the financial models, manage the trades, do the research. Those are the people we can really learn from.

 

The goal of this platform is to help individuals personally develop and accomplish their professional goals by providing unmatchable business-related content created by those who are actually in the grunt of day to day work, as opposed to content created by outside observers, journalists, or former experts looking in and writing about it.

 

Most importantly, the goal of this platform is to enable people to think differently by sharing knowledge instead of sharing information.