IC Fam,
Something is happening behind the scenes for our 2nd-anniversary. While we work on them, enjoy reading the new interviews and stories this week!
IC Feature of the Month: Hemant Agarwal
Hemant is a CFA L3 candidate and a recent graduate in commerce from St. Xaviers, Kolkata. Throughout the course of his UG, he pursued multiple internships(Bytedance, Ogilvy), exchange programmes abroad (US, Romania), and also started off his side-project - InfoKoala.
Join us on his exclusive story this month on our blog.
Read the entire interview here.
Intern Story: Sanchari’s Summer Research Internship @IIT Delhi
Sanchari, a final year undergraduate at IIEST got into IITD’s Summer Research Fellowship this year - which was conducted remotely for the first time.
On a one-on-one conversation with Team IC, she shares her strategy of applying for research-based internships, experience working remotely under Prof(s) and how students aspiring to break into research internships can start off.
IC Bytes of the Week
Flipkart is eyeing for a $50Bn IPO in 2021.
Oracle wins TikTok bid to be it’s ‘trusted technology provider’.
YouTube launches ‘Shorts’ in India; allowing users to make up to 15-sec videos.
Snowflake is the largest software IPO ever - raising $3.4B on Tuesday night.
Paytm faces Playstore heat, back after ‘temporarily’ removing cashback components.
The Indian Govt. has been planning to ban cryptocurrencies 5 months after lifting blanket ban on them.
We’ll see you in the next edition. Until then, ciao :)
Cheers,
Abhinav