Julia Silbergeld (Haas, ‘15) cultivated meaningful relationships with her classmates during her time at business school. During this interview, Silbergeld talked about building relationships and community in business school, as well as what it takes to maintain those bonds after school ends. She also talked about two community and relationship building initiatives she has launched, first, Hinge IRL, and her latest, The Quarantine Love Project, a virtual matchmaking and dating service. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify today
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Show Notes
- 1:32 – Why Business school and why Haas
- 6:44 – Opportunities for building meaningful relationships with classmates
- 9:20 – Reasons why people build meaningful relationships in business school
- 10:55 – Maintaining relationships after graduating from business school
- 12:50 – Challenges of building and cultivating post-MBA relationships for career-driven MBA professionals
- 16:20 – Challenges when MBAs move to a new city, start a new job, and have to try to build relationships on their own
- 19:04 – Dating for MBAs in business school and beyond
- 23:00 – Inspiration for “Hinge IRL” and the impact of it in the community
- 28:36 – Inspiration for the Quarantine Love Project
- 32:32 – The value of building community