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By sashgonzalez January 1, 2021January 5, 2021 Career/Featured/Reflection/Self-development

My 2020: an Executive Summary

Before I dive in, here’s a disclaimer: this has easily been the longest I’ve gone without writing a blog post. Admittedly, I’m a bit ashamed, but then again, it has taken me a while to finally come to terms with the fact that 2020 took its toll on me too. 

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By sashgonzalez April 16, 2020April 20, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Startup

Combatting COVID-19 in Africa (by Anda Ngcaba)

President Cyril Ramaphosa called this “the most definitive Thuma Mina moment for South Africa”. So when my good friend, Anda, reached out to me for help, the obvious answer was yes. I am proud to be a part of this initiative, but we need your help too. Anda tells us

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By sashgonzalez April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Self-development/Startup/University

The Focused Millennial: Ntsako Mgiba

Ntsako Mgiba is the founder of exciting startup JONGA, a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African, a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a Mechatronics Engineering graduate (UCT) and a current Masters in Information Technology student (UCT). When a good friend and I first considered starting a business of our own,

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By sashgonzalez April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Featured/Innovation/Reflection

What Businesses Can Learn from Amapiano

If you started reading this post wondering “what on earth is amapiano?” and you aren’t South African, I’ll forgive you. But if you consider yourself South African and you’re still wondering what on earth it is, I really hope you’re enjoying your life listening to Steve Hofmeyr in Orania. Other

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By sashgonzalez December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 Career/Featured/Reflection/Self-development

My 2019: an Executive Summary

A few highlights: I graduated, moved to Dublin and started my first job at Google, joined a great team, moved in with one of my best friends from Cape Town, had friends come visit us in our new home, watched Manchester United beat Chelsea at Old Trafford, watched Serena Williams

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By sashgonzalez November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Career/Featured/Innovation/Inspiration/Reflection

A Trip to Silicon Valley

Last week, I had the privilege of traveling to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area for an internal Google conference titled “Converge”. I must say, I was really excited, as it had been a goal of mine for the past 2 years to visit Silicon Valley to see what

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By sashgonzalez October 25, 2019October 28, 2019 Featured/Reflection/Self-development

From New York to Tokyo

Over the course of the past month, I’ve been fortunate enough to have done quite a bit of traveling, both for work and in my own personal capacity. While this blog post is long overdue, I’ve been meaning to share some insights from a) working in New York and b) visiting

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By sashgonzalez September 9, 2019June 5, 2020 Career/Featured/Reflection/Self-development

You’ve got a Degree. Now What?

Disclaimer: this by no means is a theory that will apply to everyone. It’s something that should be tweaked, adapted and definitely challenged. Some underlying assumptions that are made (and not limited to): a) You’ve been fortunate enough to study and obtain (or in the process of obtaining) a degree

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By sashgonzalez July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 Career/Featured/Reflection/Self-development

Life at Google

As promised, I’ll be updating you on the latest chapter in my journey. Let me start off by addressing the most frequently asked question: how’d you land a job at Google? Well, to be completely honest, I started off 2018 setting the goal to get an internship at Google for

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By sashgonzalez May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Career/Featured/Inspiration/Reflection/Self-development

“You Don’t Get if You Don’t Ask”

At about 10:30pm last night, I came across a post by one of my favourite South African authors and speakers, John Sanei. John shared a picture of him preparing to deliver a keynote address this morning at Singularity University’s (South African) Executive Programme. (If you’re not familiar with Singularity University,

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