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Computer Scientist from UIUC and MBA dropout from NYU, Nistha founded India's leading study abroad and career coaching company - Scholar Strategy & 24NorthStar. It has helped 750+ applicants get into top MS and MBA programs in USA including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley and so on. With her internship and jobhunt guidance, many of her clients have landed positions with FAANG, Tesla, Microsoft, Intel, Salesforce etc. Previously, Nistha worked on Wall Street and with fast growing startups in Manhattan. In fact, she had two fulltime job offers right after her 1st year at NYU Stern. This made her drop out of MBA and join Yipit, data based startup founded by Harvard grads. At Stern, she had the privilege of running its first Entrepreneurship Summit that featured the likes of Seth Godin and Chris Dixon. One thing she finds incredible about her NYU journey is getting featured on Fred Wilson's popular AVC blog. After returning to India, Nistha started mentoring engineers and writing books. As of today, she is a recognized career coach, author and renowned career and startup speaker. She has given talks at multiple startup events and college startup fests including IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras, NITs, SIIB, IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon and so on. Nistha has authored multiple bestselling books on Indian startups - 1. NO SHORTCUTS that features 15 interviews with Girish Mathrubootham (Freshworks), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha), Jaydeep Barman (Faasos), Tarun Mehta (Ather Energy) and others. The book won the 3rd best business book of the year award in 2019 and continues to be a bestseller for aspiring Indian entrepreneurs. 2. UNSTARTUP that chronicles the journey of Unacademy from a YouTube channel to a $3.5B startup. 3. Futurepreneurs, coauthored with MIT alum Varun Aggarwal, features the business and technical details of 10 Deeptech & AI startups in India. An avid writer, her content has clocked 25M+ views and 1.5 lac+ followers across multiple social media platforms. For your own career queries, you can contact her on https://scholarstrategy.com/contact For your kid's career guidance, contact on https://24northstar.com Specialties: career coaching, study abroad guidance, storytelling, business writing, content creation