Onehaas

Chris chatted with David Siap, Associate at McKinsey & Company. David is an experienced business and technology professional with experience in energy, climate, and consulting. At Haas, David was part of many programs, including several MBA challenges and Berkeley StEP, the Student Entrepreneurship Program.David grew up in an undocumented immigrant Filipino family, which helped shape his relationship with change and challenges. It made him good and comfortable with rolling with the punches, dealing with ambiguity, and challenging himself.In this episode, he talked about his experiences taking up different majors in his undergrad, early professional career, and grad school at UC Davis.He then shared his time at a prestigious place after grad school, Berkeley Lab, going to business school right after, and eventually joining McKinsey.Episode Quotes: Pivoting from wind energy to climate tech"I want to understand why things are the way they are and how can I impact people. And I thought that, at that time,