2020 Summer Growth Interns
After seeing many of our friends and classmates lose internships and summer plans due to COVID-19 and the current economic situation, The…
After seeing many of our friends and classmates lose internships and summer plans due to COVID-19 and the current economic situation, The Takeoff decided to look for interns for Summer 2020. We crafted a role that would offer our Interns a lot of autonomy, while also helping The Takeoff promote our mission and expand our reader base. Most importantly, we crafted a role that could help our Interns as much as possible in their career development.
(You can find the job description, here)
We received a number of great applications, interviewing applicants whom we felt would be the best fit for the roles we were looking for. We interviewed students from Northwestern, Duke, WashU, Babson, and more. Many of our applicants already had entrepreneurial-related experience, while others were new to the world of startups, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.
In the end, we decided on two awesome individuals to join our team for Summer 2020 as Growth Interns.
Isabella Wang
School: Duke University
Class: Class of 2023
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science — still not finalized
Hometown: Briarcliff Manor, NY
Fun Facts: In my free time, I’m a big fan of swimming, writing, card games, and learning new languages.
Favorite Food: Dark chocolate and anything my mom bakes.
Random Fact: My family likes traveling and we have a habit of doing road trips, often spontaneously. When we moved from Vancouver, Canada to Virginia, we turned it into a week-long road trip across the United States over the Christmas holiday.
Robbie Kramer
School: WashU, Olin Business School
Class: Class of 2021
Major(s): Finance and Entrepreneurship
Hometown: Westchester, NY
Favorite Food: New York pizza.
Fun Facts: I love playing sports (mainly basketball) and hanging out with friends
We are super excited to have Isabella and Robbie on board this summer! We look forward to expanding The Takeoff and helping Isabella and Robbie progress toward their career / personal goals and aspirations!
The Takeoff Team
The Takeoff is a publication designed to inspire the next generation of startup and technology leaders. We interview leading founders, operators, and investors, asking questions designed to help college students + recent grads who are interested in pursuing careers in startups, tech, venture capital, product, engineering, and more.
We release our interviews via our Substack so that all of our subscribers can learn from our incredible interviewees!
We also have a bi-weekly newsletter, called What We’ve Been Following, that highlights some of the articles, blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, etc. that our team found interesting over the previous two weeks.