Vom Ruhrgebiet ins AI-Startup nach New York — strategische Vorteile und persönliche Entwicklung
Generation Making Podcast · July 2026 · German · 1 hr 14 min
(Episode #42)
From the Ruhrgebiet to an AI startup in New York.
Designing a career deliberately: UBS, Taktile and Arva AI. With host Noah Price.
The path from the Ruhrgebiet to investment banking, Taktile in Berlin and New York, and CRO at Arva AI, plus advice for people early in their careers.
Episode #42 of Noah Price's Generation Making Podcast. We talk through the whole path: from the Ruhrgebiet to top universities, into strategy and M&A at UBS in Zürich, on to Taktile as an early hire in Berlin and New York, and today as Chief Revenue Officer at Arva AI.
A lot of the conversation is about designing a career deliberately rather than leaving it to chance: how to create advantages early through proactive, strategic behaviour, why taking risk early matters, and how structured thinking makes big goals less intimidating.
Topics
- Talent plus network: how an internal referral opened the door in Zürich
- Working from your manager's perspective: anticipating instead of executing
- Empowerment over micromanagement as a leadership default
- Why the early years are the right time to take risk
- Structured thinking as a way to make big goals feel smaller
I never left my career to chance. From the start, I built it toward a goal and pointed every step in that direction.Dajana Mars
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