Today, I talk to Karen Bello. We discuss how she started as a personal assistant making minimum wage to starting her own Air BnB empire with millions in revenue. Enjoy!

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0:00 - Intro

0:45 - How Did She Become a Personal Assistant?

3:54 - What Did She Study in College?

4:07 - How Did Her Mindset Change?

6:02 - Rich Dad Poor Dad

7:40 - Transition After Being a Personal Assistant

9:22 - What Made Her Think She Could Start A Business?

10:25 - Working as a Therapist

16:00 - Airbnb Business

21:55 - Growing her Business in The First Year

23:18 - Getting The Confidence to Start

26:20 - Rental Arbitrage

30:53 - Managing Time Working Two Jobs

32:05 - Scaling Her Business

34:05 - How Does Cohosting Work?

40:02 - Profit From Year One

41:04 - Cohosting vs. Rental Arbitrage

45:05 - Balancing Two Full Time Jobs

46:10 - Where Did She get her Drive From?

48:30 - The Value of Networking

51:07 - 3rd Year Numbers

54:50 - How is The Business Now?

58:45 - Where Does She Want to Take The Business?

1:00:00 - What Does The Team Look Like?

1:01:27 - How to Find an Assistant

1:04:15 - What Does an Assistant do?

1:09:04 - Advice for Airbnb Businesses

1:12:30 - How Does an Advanced Person Learn?

1:16:15 - What's The Next Step?

1:20:52 - Focusing on Your Niche

Karen's Contact Information:

bhstr.com karen@bellohomesstr.com

336-459-9756

I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).

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In episode 2 of Lift Off with Aman Manazir, I talk to math prodigy Sunny Sahu. We discuss how he got machine learning internships in high school, how he got a full scholarship to the University of California-Berkeley (and why he broke it), and why he turned down a $500,000/yr job offer at Headlands Technologies and so much more. Enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction

01:19 - Why Sunny Took Calculus At Age 11

05:19 - How Math Olympiad Changed Sunny’s Life

10:22 - Sunny’s Experience at USA Math Camp

11:36 - Writing a Great Software Resume: BeamJobs

12:51 - Sunny Gets Humbled at Math Camp

14:43 - How Sunny Landed Machine Learning Internships in High School

18:08 - Math Club at Rolling Meadows High School

19:34 - How Sunny's Father Changed His Life

21:30 - Why Sunny Chose to Pursue Computer Science

23:23 - How Sunny Landed a Full Ride Scholarship

30:44 - Breaking the Scholarship Contract

32:06 - Why Sunny Chose Berkeley Over Princeton

36:12 - Sunny Takes Graduate Classes as an Undergrad

39:42 - Sunny’s Advice for College Freshmen

44:09 - Which Path Should CS Students Pursue

51:54 - How Sunny Landed the $500,000 Quant Trading Offer

55:56 - How to Prepare for Quant Finance

59:30 - Where People Mess up Their Quant Interviews

1:02:16 - Will Sunny Take the $500,000 Quant Offer?

1:03:30 - Why Did Sunny Choose to Pursue a Statistics PhD?

1:08:17 - Sunny’s Research Experience & Advice

1:13:14 - Sunny’s Struggles With the Family Startup

1:16:05 - Sunny’s Advice to Tech Entrepreneurs

1:19:39 - Should You Create a Startup or Work in Industry First?

1:22:34 - Sunny's Biggest Challenge

1:25:22 - Sunny’s Advice for Young People

1:29:43 - Where Sunny Sees Himself in 10 years

1:31:16 - Outro

I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).