How A Speculative Application Led To Scaling A Unicorn with Jannat Shah Rajan

Today I’m delighted to be joined by Jannat Shah Rajan.  Jannat’s career has taken her from the world of banking and venture capital to a number of roles building early stage startups, including at one Europe’s fastest ever Unicorns.

Trailer (The high level journey): Analyst @ Deutsche Bank > Investor @ AXA Venture Partners > Head of Strategic Finance @ Hopin > Head of Finance @ Lean

Outtakes (the moments few people saw, but shaped everything): 

• Taking risks and knowing when the time is right to switch roles
• Figuring out how to pivot into a new industry and building your network
• Making speculative applications (turns out they can actually work!)
• Building business units from scratch at a high growth unicorn 

Edits (the things you might have done differently, if you could go back): 

• Listen to find out!