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I walked in ready for the usual "AI is coming for your job" sermon. Then a PayPal AI engineer — a guy who's also logged time at TikTok and JPMorgan — looked at me and said he's never once watched good code make anyone a dollar. One sentence, and the whole hour reset. Sohil is early enough in his own story to remember the scramble, and senior enough now to see what big tech actual...

Someone slid into your inbox last week offering Forbes for a thousand bucks. Maybe you almost said yes. 😅 Vaishali Gauba spent years inside CNBC, NBC and CBS newsrooms before starting her own PR agency, and she'll tell you flat out: that yes quietly costs you the exact people you were trying to reach. Here's the uncomfortable part about how to get into Forbes with a credit card. The crowd...

Saurav is twenty-six and lives in Delhi. For five years he's worked fully remote for companies in Israel and the Czech Republic, and he gets flown out to developer conferences across three continents. The part that stopped me cold: he's never once clicked "apply" on a job portal. Not once. So how does a kid from a government school in Delhi end up speaking on stages in Nigeria, P...

Shriya left India for Germany to do a master's in Human-Computer Interaction. Her tuition bill came to zero. (Read that again. Zero — not "discounted," actually free.) If you've been stress-googling "masters abroad" at 2am, stuck in the loop most Indian students hit after a B.Tech, this is the conversation you needed. US debt, Canada's wait times, or the rumor that...

Six thousand followers. That's the number that should not work. Most people would look at Alisha Gupta's Instagram and assume she's stuck. Too small for brand deals. Too niche to get booked. The kind of account you scroll past on your way to someone with a verified checkmark. She's spoken at Harvard. She books out university stages across the country. Brands pay her to post. And sh...

Most people treat LinkedIn like a résumé site. Daniel Greenberg thinks that is exactly why they stay invisible. Daniel has racked up 8 million impressions on LinkedIn and co-hosts Connection Accepted, a show about communication and online influence. So when he says the feed now behaves more like TikTok than a digital CV, I paid attention. Here is the part nobody wants to hear: posting on LinkedIn...

Picture this. You spend a few weekends building a small web app to track garbage piles in your city. You post about it once on LinkedIn. You go to sleep. You wake up to 250,000 users and your local government quietly using your tool to clean the streets. That's Jyothish's actual 2025. The app is Namma Kasa. It does one thing — lets Bangalore residents drop a pin on a map when they spot unc...

Two years ago, Anas lost his full-time UK job. He went back to Upwork — the platform he'd already used to make over $80K while studying — and within months landed an 18-month Swedish contract that generated over $5M in client revenue. His unfair advantage? A 60-second intro video that gets him hired in 24 hours. In this episode of Ready Set Do, I sit with Anas, a Top Rated Plus Upwork freelanc...

Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do. So what actually gets you hired in 2026? I sat down with Surya Kari, a Senior Generative AI Data Scientist at Amazon, to find out. Surya works on Amazon&#...

How do you go from running tuberculosis programs in rural Bihar to studying at Oxford and eventually working with WHO Africa? There is no clean answer — and that is sort of the point. In this episode, I sit down with Dyuti Sen to talk about what a public health career actually looks like when you do not start as a doctor, do not have a linear plan, and refuse to pretend the journey was smooth. Dyu...

Twenty apps. Thirteen days. Some already making money. That's what Avi Pilcer actually shipped while most of us were still picking a domain name. And the wild part? He didn't do it alone. He built an autonomous system called System Zero that does the heavy lifting for him. If you've been told "AI is making it easier to build" but you still freeze at "what should I build,...

Picture this: it's 2023, ChatGPT just dropped, every Fortune 500 suddenly needs an "AI strategy," and the job postings want 5 years of experience in a technology that's barely 18 months old. How does anyone actually get hired in that mess? Sowmya Podila figured it out. She's now a Senior Data Scientist on Target's centralized Generative AI team — basically the internal st...

Hari Prasad Renganathan got rejected from the H1B lottery three times. Most people in that situation spiral. They scramble for a second master's, beg their company for an internal transfer, or start mentally preparing to go back home. Hari texted 10 YC startups, got callbacks from four of them, landed an offer as a Senior AI Engineer, and moved to London. The UK work visa took three weeks. No...

Two weeks into my first semester in the U.S., I remember sitting at my desk refreshing LinkedIn like it was a slot machine. Apply. Refresh. Apply. Refresh. Zero replies. At some point you start asking yourself the obvious question: is this just how it works here… or am I doing it wrong? This episode is the answer I wish I had back then. I sat down with Aryan Vaidya — a Purdue MEM (Master of Engine...

Two years ago, I was lying in an ER bed, scared enough to get brutally honest with myself. And the thing that bothered me most was not some giant life philosophy. It was embarrassingly specific. I had still not started the YouTube channel and podcast I had been talking about for way too long. That night became the reason Ready, Set, Do exists. Now, exactly two years after uploading the first episo...

Everyone's hyping autonomous AI agents. Your corporate IT department is quietly building a blacklist. That gap — between the hype and the reality inside enterprise walls — is exactly what this episode is about. Naveen Chatlapalli, a three-time UiPath MVP and seasoned .NET developer, has watched the automation industry reshape itself in real time. He's seen RPA go from a boardroom buzzword...

Most people grinding through a tough job market send 300 applications and wait. Deep Suchak bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco. No offer. No contacts. No couch lined up past the first week. Just a read on where the opportunities actually were — and a conviction that showing up in person would do what a perfectly formatted resume never could. In this episode of Ready Set Do, Deep walks me thr...

Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start a business from your laptop in Kolkata: the company setup is the easy part. It's the tax side that'll keep you up at night. (Ask me how I know.) In this episode, we unpack the entire Business Anywhere model — what it actually does, who it's for, and why so many location-independent entrepreneurs are using a US LLC as the backbone of...

Do you really need a massive following to make a massive impact (and income)? If you're an entrepreneur, coach, or creator, you've probably felt the pressure to go viral. You're told you need 10,000 followers, perfectly polished Instagram reels, and a big budget just to be taken seriously. But what if all that "vanity visibility" is actually distracting you from building a real business? Welcome t...

Beyond the Bot: Why Your AI Marketing is Failing (and the Journalist’s Fix) In the noise-saturated landscape of 2026, the barrier to entry for content has never been lower, but the barrier to trust has never been higher. Everyone has access to the same LLMs, the same prompts, and the same "perfect" prose. The result? A digital environment filled with "brain rot"—content that is...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of international students and tech workers face the same terrifying math: there are 85,000 H-1B seats and over 400,000 applications. The odds are not in your favor. But what if you didn’t have to play the lottery at all? In a recent episode of the Ready Set Do Podcast , we sat down with Harsh, an AI Architect who "speed-ran" his way from an international...

What happens when a Marvel writer loses $500,000 on his first tech deal? In this episode of Ready Set Do, I sit down with Victor—a legally blind, albino filmmaker and founder who is disrupting the AI space. We dive into the first few steps of his transition from Hollywood to tech, his unique philosophy on modular AI, and how he's building 'Magic Bookifier' to remove obstacles for neuro...

Is Beast Philanthropy a Scam? The Reality Behind the Viral Video When the world’s biggest YouTuber hands over a check, the internet asks one question: Is it real? Joining us on Ready Set Do is Shafkat Alam, the Joint Secretary of Tiljala Shed and the man who stood face-to-face with MrBeast’s team in the heart of Kolkata’s slums. What he reveals in this episode might dismantle everything you think...

How do you build a community of 600,000 people who want to be alone? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Black , the founder of The Female Traveler Network , to reveal how she turned a simple travel blog into a global empire and a safe haven for half a million women. If you have ever felt the urge to travel solo but were stopped by the fear of loneliness or safety concerns, this conversation...

Everyone is obsessed with the viral videos of robots folding laundry. Almost no one is talking about the absolute nightmare of actually building the hardware. In this episode, we sit down with Ritwik, the supply chain lead at 1X Technologies —the company behind NEO , the humanoid robot currently going toe-to-toe with Tesla Optimus. If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the prototype works, th...