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Dan Ferreira: Consulting to Google, Brazil to Boston
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Here are some relevant links from the conversation:
- The Knowledge Project podcast
- The Peter Attia Drive podcast
- How to Get Rich by Naval Ravikant
- Ayrton Senna on Wikipedia
Show notes:
- 1:50 Killer coffee
- 2:22 A perfect day
- 3:30 Dan's role at Google
- 6:16 Skills to be on Dan's team
- 8:07 Growing up in São Paulo
- 9:07 Personal safety
- 11:54 Industrial engineering at Georgia Tech
- 13:46 Getting into consulting with Deloitte
- 15:20 Deciding to do an MBA
- 17:46 What Dan got out of the MBA experience
- 19:31 Traveling with classmates
- 21:43 MBA coursework that served as a career inflection point
- 24:22 The second stint at Deloitte
- 26:30 How to be a stand-out candidate on the job market in 2020
- 28:20 How Dan landed his position at Google
- 30:38 People that have inspired Dan: Ayrton Senna
- 32:23 People that have inspired Dan: Naval Ravikant
- 37:08 How is life different than envisioned 10 years ago?
- 39:22 Decompress time in schedules
- 40:36 How being a father has changed Dan
- 42:20 Injecting a bit of Portuguese at home
- 43:04 Dan's love of golf
- 45:20 More on coffee
- 46:51 Recommended podcasts
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