After spending ~7 weeks in the
field, Mumbai was my home for next 5
weeks. Crazy rain and high tide of Mumbai welcomed me. Small tea stall near Wello Mumbai office was
my morning destination for every day. It was a completely different experience
at Wello Mumbai office compared to field experience. We celebrated various occasions with team members. One
of such occasions was ice cream week. On
this occasion, entire office celebrated with natural ice cream. This brand is
very famous in India. Fig-1 shows combination of yummy coconut tender and
chocolate ice-cream.
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| Fig-1: Celebrating icecream week at Wello, Mumbai office. |
In
Mumbai office, I had to compile all my findings from field and use them to devise
pricing strategy. In two weeks time, I was able to complete work on pricing
strategy. CEO, Cynthia Koenig, mentored my work personally and guided me as
when needed. She also accommodated my request to work on due diligence. Due
diligence was an area where I wanted to work. Apart of due diligence, I further
worked on financial models developed by previous WDI intern. Overall It was a
great learning experience at Mumbai office.
Logistics
experience was also awesome. My residential place was hardly 15 minutes away
from the office. Seashore was hardly at 5 minutes walking distance from my residence. Every evening I used to spend near seashore and
experience cool sea bridges. However, I couldn’t go to any location within
Mumbai or around as I used to return to Delhi on weekend. We also found a good
restaurant for a great lunch every day. I was surprised to know the price of
lunch that was just USD $0.83 per person. Fig 2 shows my lunch place and a full
lunch plate.
On the final day, couple
of surprises were awaiting me. A surprise team dinner at awesome place gave me a
feeling that I should never leave such a caring and supporting team.
Furthermore, a customized t-shirt with Wello logo made me emotional. Fig-3 depicts me before and after joining Wello.
With this, I would like to thank
everyone at Wello specially Cynthia, Shradha, and Richard for their awesome support.
Additionally, WDI team for their continuous support and reminding me for blogs
and deliverables at regular interval of time. My special thanks goes to
Sinia for her support from application process to till the end of the internship.
This is not the end of the
journey with WDI and Wello but starting of a relationship that will remain for
the life.
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| Fig-2: My lunch and restaurant in Mumbai |
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| Fig-3: Before and after joining Wello |
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