About

Nistha Tripathi is a computer scientist from the University of Illinois and a former MBA student at NYU Stern who dropped out to pursue her passion for startups. She is the founder of Scholar Strategy, India's leading study abroad and career coaching company, which has helped over 600 applicants get into top MS and MBA programs in the USA, including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, and more. With her guidance, many of her clients have landed positions with FAANG, Tesla, Microsoft, Intel, Salesforce, among others. Before starting Scholar Strategy, Nistha worked on Wall Street and with fast-growing startups in Manhattan. She had two full-time job offers right after her first year at NYU Stern, which made her drop out of the MBA program and join Yipit, a data-based startup founded by Harvard grads. At Stern, she had the privilege of running its first Entrepreneurship Summit, which featured the likes of Seth Godin and Chris Dixon. One thing she found amazing about her NYU journey is getting featured on Fred Wilson's popular AVC blog. Nistha is a recognized career coach, author, and renowned career and startup speaker. She has given talks at multiple startup events and college startup fests, including IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras, NITs, SIIB, IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon, and so on. She has authored multiple bestselling books on Indian startups, including NO SHORTCUTS, which features 15 interviews with Girish Mathrubootham (Freshworks), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha), Jaydeep Barman (Faasos), Tarun Mehta (Ather Energy), and others. The book won the 3rd best business book of the year award in 2019 and continues to be a bestseller for aspiring Indian entrepreneurs. Her other books include UNSTARTUP, which chronicles the journey of Unacademy from a YouTube channel to a $3.5B startup, and FUTUREPRENEURS, co-authored with MIT alum Varun Aggarwal, which features the business and technical details of 10 Deeptech & AI startups in India. An avid writer, Nistha's content has clocked 25M+ views and 1.5 lac+ followers across multiple social media platforms. Her specialties include career coaching, study abroad guidance, storytelling, business writing, and content creation. With