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Career Journeys Revealed

Hitesh Chudhasama

Join Hitesh Chudasama for candid conversations with leaders, builders, entrepreneurs, and professionals shaping the future of work.Each episode explores the real stories behind career growth, pivotal decisions, setbacks, reinvention, and success. Guests share practical lessons, hard-earned insights, and the experiences that helped them grow their careers, their lives, and the organizations they led.Career Journeys Revealed is about real journeys, practical insights, and fresh perspectives to help

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31:24

Zhi Zhou on Trust, Leadership and Career Growth

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2026/10/04

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Career Journeys Revealed, I talk with Zhi “Z” Zhou about his path through financial services, fintech, Uber, and eBay. Z shares how his first job in a credit card call center shaped his understanding of customers, why trust is essential to marketplace growth, and what changes when a leader begins managing multiple teams. We also discuss how AI is changing the speed of risk, how to choose tools that genuinely help a team, and why career decisions should acc...

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Chett Garcia on Career Reinvention & AI

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2026/09/03

Send us Fan Mail In the first guest conversation of Season 2 of Career Journeys Revealed, I sit down with Chett Garcia , Partner at Riviera Partners, whose unconventional career has taken him from construction management to teaching high school math to helping venture-backed technology companies find their next generation of leaders. We talk about career pivots, imposter syndrome, continuous learning, and the lessons Chett has carried across very different chapters of his career. We also exp...

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Season 2 Kickoff

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2026/07/26

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 of Career Journeys Revealed is here! In this kickoff episode, Hitesh reflects on Season 1, thanks co-host Han Yuan and the guests who shared their honest stories of career pivots, setbacks, growth, and reinvention. Season 2 will bring more inspiring conversations with leaders, builders, entrepreneurs, and professionals across industries, while also exploring emerging careers and how AI and automation are reshaping the future of work. Subscribe and join us for real ca...

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Ep. 9 - Do Anything, Then Do Everything: On Building...

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2026/03/16

Send a text Kelly Vincent has spent 25 years in product management across Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, eBay - and she'll tell you she still doesn't have a clear path. That's not false modesty. It's the point. In this episode, Kelly, now Chief Product Officer at Auctane, walks through the three seasons of her career: do anything, product management, and leadership. Each transition required a completely new playbook. Not an updated version of the last one. A new one, built from scratch. She talks ab...

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Ep. 8 - From Chaos To Craft: On Building Nonlinear...

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2026/03/10

Send a text What if your most meaningful breakthroughs live on the far side of discomfort? We sit down with repeat founder and technologist Madhu Chamarty to unpack the real mechanics of a nonlinear career—how hard work eclipses raw talent, why acceptance beats resistance in the trough of despair, and how to design decisions that reduce failure without shrinking your ambition. From research labs to high-growth SaaS to building distributed workforce tech, Madhu shares the habits and mental mod...

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47:29

Mastering Pivots: Infinite Scroll in Tech and Life

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2026/01/19

Send us a text In Episode 7, Han and Hitesh sit down with Hugh Williams, who went from teaching himself Fortran in rural Australia to co-inventing infinite scroll at Microsoft and leading search teams at eBay and Google; holding 38 US patents along the way. In this episode, Hugh shares how Microsoft's "six to eight people can change the world" mentality fundamentally changed what he believed was possible in his career, why he believes the future of commerce will be conversational rather than ...

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Ep 6 - Art of Scalability: Principles of Scaling...

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2025/11/14

Send us a text In Episode 6, Han and Hitesh sit down with Marty Abbott, whose unconventional path took him from Army officer and paratrooper to CTO at eBay during its most explosive scaling period, and eventually to co-founding AKF Partners nearly two decades ago. Since then, he's worked with organizations ranging from high-growth startups to the White House—including helping fix healthcare.gov after its infamous launch failure. In this episode, Marty shares the discipline-driven principles t...

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Ep. 5 Mastering Career Pivots: From Engineer to...

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2025/08/27

Send us a text In Episode 5, Han and Hitesh sit down with Balki Kodarapu. Balki has built his career across 20+ years in fintech, analytics, and healthcare, evolving from individual contributor to fractional engineering leadership. In this episode, he discusses the critical decisions that shaped his transition from hands-on engineering to leading multiple companies simultaneously, and shares essential advice for engineers adapting to today's rapidly changing landscape. Support the show Find u...

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Ep. 4 - From Solo Problem-Solver to Systems Builder:...

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2025/07/15

Send us a text In Episode 4, Han and Hitesh talk with Steve Heyman, CEO of SnowOwl, who discovered that true scale comes not from solving impossible problems yourself, but from creating systems where entire teams can tackle them together. From writing web servers that handled a billion daily requests to building organizations from 0 to 80 people, Steve shares how he evolved from elite engineer to CEO over 25 years in Silicon Valley. In this episode, he reveals why he chose to move...

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Ep. 3 - From Startup Fixer to Founder: Finding Your...

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2025/07/02

Send us a text In Episode 3, Han and Hitesh sit down with Sagar Shukla, CEO of Foresight. Sagar shares his journey from being employee #10 at DealCloud through its acquisition and IPO, to eventually starting his own company. In this episode, he discusses how navigating through brutal client demands and data disasters taught him resilience, why advocating for himself revealed when it was time to leave, and what it really means to be a "finder" rather than a founder in the startup world. Suppor...

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Ep. 2 - Navigating Your Career to Drive Change at...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text In Episode 2, Han and Hitesh sit down with Bala Meduri. Bala has built his career specializing in data and AI. In this episode, he discusses the professional decisions that enabled him to transition his career from leading foundation teams to business teams at a Fortune 500 company. Support the show Find us on LinkedIn! Han & Hitesh

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