No Resume. Just a Book. How Rahul Landed a VC Job at Lux Capital

Name: No Resume. Just a Book. How Rahul Landed a VC Job at Lux Capital
Uploaded: 2022-09-28T13:18:29+00:00
Duration: 1 min 15 s
Channel: Rahul Rana
Description: In this first‑person testimonial, the speaker explains how participating in a publishing program and writing a book transformed his career trajectory. By…

28 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this first‑person testimonial, the speaker explains how participating in a publishing program and writing a book transformed his career trajectory. By using the book to establish expertise and visibility, he was able to approach a venture‑capital partner, Josh, with a chapter of his manuscript instead of a traditional résumé. The outreach resulted in a rapid, 15‑minute reply and an invitation to work at Lux Capital. The speaker also highlights the broader content‑creation tactics taught by the Creator Institute and New Degree Press—producing article series and consistently sharing the book and articles across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram—as essential to building reputation, distribution, and ultimately securing the job.

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Safe to say that the whole publishing program and the book program and everything just changed the trajectory of my life, absolutely. So incredibly grateful to be here and to give back to it. By no means was I an expert, but I used the book to become an expert, sort of, yeah, to get my name out there, to build a reputation. And yeah, now the rest is history. I was making progress with my book, and it was just so obvious to me I needed to get his cosign. I needed to interview him. And it was just one of those things like, I would only stop if he verbally said. I sent him an email, no reply. resume, no application, no interview. I solely sent him a chapter of my book. I was like, hey Josh, I want to work for you. And, and like, it's pretty crazy, but 15 minutes later he replied and he was like, absolutely, like, would love to have you work for me. So I would say it's, uh, definitely, um, all right, content creation, obviously the book, but also the follow-up things that, that, that sort of the Creator Institute sort of and New Degree Press teach us to do, like, uh, the all the articles, the, the article series that they tell us to make. It's actually extremely valuable. And, you know, those articles plus the book plus, and, you know, posting them across LinkedIn, across Twitter, across, you know, Instagram, whatever sort of distribution platforms. And I just did that on a consistent basis.