Ep 4 - Career Growth, Soft Skills, and Life Lessons for Software Engineers with Shashank Kansal

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Engineers are supposed to be great at engineering but to have a thriving career and make an impact having only hardcore tech skills is not enough. Soft skills play an even more important role; soft skills are just not about speaking well or writing good emails, but they go well beyond that

To discuss this in detail we have with us Shashank who is an 8x successful founder and currently running his own venture fund and an active investor in HealthTech, EdTech, eCommerce, and Mobility startups

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