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How I Built This with Guy Raz
It was a book Mariam wrote while at Stanford Business School, providing guidance on getting jobs in management, consulting, and finance-related fields. The book sold around 50,000 copies and helped differentiate Mariam's application to Stanford.
I'm going to read the title of this book called The Fast Track, The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management, Consulting, Investment Banking and Securities Trading.
— Episode: Minted: Mariam Naficy (2018)
Episode: Minted: Mariam Naficy (2018)
It was a book Mariam wrote while at Stanford Business School, providing guidance on getting jobs in management, consulting, and finance-related fields. The book sold around 50,000 copies and helped differentiate Mariam's application to Stanford.
I'm going to read the title of this book called The Fast Track, The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management, Consulting, Investment Banking and Securities Trading.
Yeah. So the reason I did that was I thought, well, one, it's a market need. I know how to fill this need. I've done so much recruiting at the two firms I was working at that I knew that there was a need for the book and I wanted to experiment to see what would happen if you create a consumer product that you know that there's a need for.
And I also thought it would be a good project to demonstrate that I had some, I guess, chutzpah to be able to get into Stanford.
So I sold the book, right? And then I knew I had sold the book to a publisher, Broadway, before I, as I was applying. And I think that helped differentiate me as well.
And then I used the advance to pay for business school, which I needed to pay for. So it was a way to pay for school.