By Larry Chiang
This is probably the tenth or 11th blog post you’ve read about my thoughts on “Getting an Internship the Entrepreneurial Way”
I launched that series of talks at Stanford by having students I previously mentored, mentor. What I mean is that “Do you really wanna hear me talk for two hours?” So I had students I previously taught guest lecture.
I just took the video.
This pattern comes up a lot in helping students with getting an internship:
“External Internship Without Permission”. By external, I mean doing work without being asked and without permission and without direction and from outside of the startup.
So, yes, you seemingly do random work. By “random”, I mean specific JB a way you don’t understand. Lets get into more specifics via the case study
Tristan Walker
You see he did some work
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So you do work before you get hired
It’s very street smart


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