Episode 8 (Seed Stories): Amar’s story, how to build your network into VC, and what being an angel investor is like

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Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of Undergrad Unhinged. Today, marks the introduction of our special episodes which will run concurrent to our weekly programming: Seed Stories. Today, we interview Amardeep Parmar, Co-Founder of The BAE HQ, and a 5x Angel Investor. Amar was the second fastest writer to reach 50,000 followers (the first was President Barack Obama), and has since been the founder and host of 3 notable podcasts (Mindful & Driven, Entrepreneur's Handbook & The BAE HQ Podcast). Today's episode timestamps are below: (0:30) Introduction to Amar (1:00) Icebreaker: If you could have dinner with anyone, dead, alive or fictional, who would it be? (1:20) What made him decide to go into Economics? (2:11) How Amar started an unexpected journey into writing and entrepreneurship (3:50) How Amar started writing on Medium (5:40) Amar’s supportive bosses, and how it led him to starting a company (6:20) Amar’s first two podcasts: Mindful & Driven and the Entrepreneur’s Handbook: Interviewing the founders of Netflix and Twitter (8:00) British Asian Entrepreneurs (BAE) HQ, and how Amar met his cofounder (9:50) Finding support after moving from a technology consulting job to becoming a writer (12:05) What made you decide to start all these podcasts, and what were the challenges you faced when starting your first versus third podcast? (15:30) The advantage of having experience in podcast interviewing (16:00) How Amar leveraged his network to begin interviewing his community — the biggest writers on Medium (18:00) How Amar got good at podcasting and speaking publicly (20:20) The importance of being comfortable with rejection, and pressing on. Being an Angel Investor (22:20) Ammiel’s conception of what an Angel investor is, and is it true? What is angel investing? (24:00) What are angel syndicates? (26:45) What is one thing you wish people knew about angel investing? (29:00) Amar’s cofounder’s experience in VC (32:40) What is the best and worst thing about being an angel investor? (37:00) Amar’s top tips on pitch decks — finding your edge (41:40) Why working for a BigFour or BigTech company may not be an indicator of founder pitch deck success The BAE HQ (42:30) What does Amar want to do through the BAE HQ? (44:20) Success and sustainable systems for success (47:00) Amar’s review of Ammiel and Saheb as podcast hosts 😬 (49:40) Amar’s closing thoughts (52:00) Ammiel’s closing summary

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