Stoa Digest #139: 🎯 Stake Out & Catch 🎯
It's always just you and the fish's eye.
Hello there Stoans,
Meet two fellows who set their eyes on the target and worked relentlessly towards it. They planned meticulously and are running their dream marathon.🔥
Read on to know more about them.
~Jahnavy, Team Stoa
Picture this- you walk into your dream interview, nervous yet hopeful and you find your absolute hero waiting to share their lunch, homemade dal rice with you.
Umm, what would you do?
I’m not sure what I would do but Varun knows exactly how that feels.
Meet Varun Shetty from Cohort 13, a part-time engineer and full-time content writer who juxtaposed his two favourite things- cricket and writing and made a thrilling
10-year-long career in sports journalism.
He has been living his dream for the last 10 years from traveling with IPL teams to doing live commentary to long-form investigative journalism to now, producing content that will suit people’s short attention spans. He planned this journey when he was 15 years old. WOW! ⭐
“I wanted 4 years where I could get a lot of different things on my resume, just to be employable by ESPN. Hence, I took up engineering. And why ESPN? It was the pinnacle of cricket writing and all my heroes were on ESPN.”
Varun always wanted to work at ESPN and on his interview day, he met Sharda Ugra, one of the first mainstream women sports journalists. And he ate dal rice with her.
That was his first starstruck moment in the industry.
Varun had another peak moment when he was present and wrote about India’s famous victory against Australia two years ago. Something that happened after 35 years and something that people will definitely be talking about after 35 years.
Read the piece that immortalised Varun and his work (his words).
Varun is on the path of exploring what is next for him. You can connect with him here.
🎺🎖️ Community Trumpet 🎖️🎺
Meet Avik Chaudhery from Cohort 13 who was featured in Shark Tank India's latest episode seeking funding for his brand FOMO, a beverage brand striving to replace flavored sugars from our lifestyles. Kudos to Avik and his team for building a great product and securing crazy funding. Go check out the episode and get #TheGoodKindaFOMO.💥
Hasta la vista, folks!✨