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I have lots of friends in undergrad
who are thinking about it or
how to apply it, or even gone to
business school through different
enrollment programs.
And from everything they told me,
it sounded like entering the real
world after undergrad with a golden
ticket to be able to take a risk.
And do something that you really
feel passionate about during the
time between undergrad and business
school, rather than just following
a traditional or prescribed path.
And so that was something that was
always really appealing to me and
that I was excited to learn
more about.
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I always knew I wanted to end up in
the healthcare space, and
early on in my life I thought that
meant going to medical school and
becoming a doctor.
And then during my undergrad I
shifted and decided I wanted to do
something at the intersection of
business and medicine.
And so I accepted a role to join
Morgan Stanley full time after
college to get some hard finance
and business skills.
And I thought deferred enrollment
would be the perfect opportunity to
bridge my experiences and
pivot away from traditional finance
into something more entrepreneurial
in the healthcare space.
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After graduating from undergrad,
I joined Morgan Stanley in their
investment banking program.
And while I was there,
I met the founders of a series,
a fertility technology startup.
And they asked me to come join them
and help them build the team, and
launch the product, and run their
finance function for them.
And I ended up taking the leap and
leaving Morgan Stanley and
joining that company
called Tomorrow Life Sciences.
And was there for two and
a half years, we grew from fewer
than ten employees to over 100.
We closed our Series C and
launched our product right before I
left to come to the GSB.
And I really think that I would not
have had the courage or the guts to
make that change and pivot away
from the path that I was on had it
not been for deferred enrollment.
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Well, it takes me all the way back
to high school when I came and
visited for undergrad, and really
fell in love with the campus and
everything about the school.
So I've been dreaming of it for
a long time.
At that time I thought it would be
maybe for medical school, but then
shifted into the business path.
And it's been everything that
I dreamed of since then and more,
just coming from the East Coast and
getting to experience
the West Coast way of life,
the weather, the environment.
I wake up and open my shades and
it's palm tree, blue sky,
people biking, and
running past my window, so
it's like paradise in so many ways.
And then I think back to
when I wrote my
deferred enrollment application,
I was a senior at Yale.
And I wrote about so
many things, including
the Biodesign Innovation Program,
the Healthcare Club, and now I'm
taking the Biodesign Innovation
course, which has been incredible.
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My post GSB plans, I do not know.
[LAUGH] I'm only in my first year,
which is coming to a close,
which is crazy.
This summer I'll be working or
interning at Maverick Ventures in
San Francisco.
And then at a healthcare startup,
which is one of their portfolio
companies in London for
a few weeks.
So I'm really excited for that,
I've never worked in VC before.
So I'm looking forward to having
that experience this summer and
then also
the healthcare startup experience.
And just keeping my eyes open and
learning a lot from the people that
I'll be working with, and then
we'll see where next year takes me.
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