Joey B.
MBA admissions coach with a soft spot for low-income applicants
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Works at Samsara
Available tomorrow at 2:00 PM UTC
Usually responds within 2 hours
Schedule is relatively flexible around a fulltime workday, so happy to work with clients on available times.
Questions? Start chatting with this coach before you get started.
Joey’s MBA Qualifications
Welcome to my profile! As a Stanford MBA graduate with a Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation, I bring a wealth of experience from both the private and academic sectors to my coaching. My professional journey includes strategic roles at leading companies like Samsara, Omidyar Network, and Spotify, where I honed my skills in strategy, product marketing, and investment management. I have a deep understanding of the MBA admissions process and have successfully navigated it myself, which allows me to provide insightful guidance to aspiring MBA candidates. Whether you need help with application strategy, essay crafting, or interview preparation, I'm here to support you every step of the way. Let's work together to make your MBA dreams a reality!
Joey can help with:
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Editing
Recommendations
Interviews
Secondary Review
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
About Joey
Hailing from the rural San Joaquin Valley of California, I applied to college not even knowing what I didn't know. Fortunately, I was admitted to Princeton through the Questbridge College Match process on full financial aid, and I was able to start acquainting myself with the ins and outs of educational and career development, and of the challenges that those from more privileged backgrounds are often trained earlier to overcome to get into elite programs. Since Princeton, I've gone on to attend a PhD program in Anthropology at UC Irvine (Mastered out to go back to private sector, working at Universal Pictures in Analytics and Strategy), and then got my MBA at Stanford. It's in my DNA to share my learnings for students like myself, and I'm ready to help coach you to further that mission.
Why do I coach?
As mentioned above, I had a few lucky breaks, and a few great mentors, that helped me scale up quickly to attend and take advantage of elite institutions. These were opportunities that very few of my peers in my working class hometown were afforded the chance to encounter. Knowing this situation is incredibly common in socioeconomically challenged communities, I coach to expand knowledge sets for those who may have little chance to workshop their applications otherwise. For that reason, please reach out if you are first-gen/low-income and need a discount code. Happy to work with high-achieving students who have made the most of some very common constraints in today's world!
Work Experience
Senior Strategy Manager
Samsara
July 2024 - Present
Programs Associate
Omidyar Network
July 2022 - July 2024
Investment, grantmaking, and portfolio management in Responsible Technology (Generative AI, Cloud Governance, Building Alternative Tech Ecosystems); and Reimagining Capitalism (New Economic Paradigm). Strategy, Cross-functional Collaborations and +4 skills
Product Marketing Manager MBA Intern
Spotify
July 2021 - October 2021
Product strategy and marketing for Spotify for Artists' Marquee product reporting for catalog content. Market Research, Product Strategy and +3 skills
Director, Analytics
Universal Pictures
March 2017 - May 2020
Distribution Analyst, 2017-2018 Analytics Manager, 2018-2020 Director of Analytics, 2020
Graduate Researcher & Teaching Assistant
University of California, Irvine
October 2014 - March 2017
Paid researcher and teaching assistant in the School of Social Sciences, instructing courses across Economics, Media Writing, Sociology, and Anthropology.
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation
2020 - 2022
University of California, Irvine
Master's Degree, Anthropology
2014 - 2017
Admitted as a Ph.D. student in Anthropology, mastered out for private sector work. Focus on Economic Anthropology intersections with South Asian and Media Studies, focusing on film financing and labor relations in Mumbai's Bollywood film industry.
Princeton University
BA, Anthropology/South Asian Studies
2008 - 2012
Activities and societies: Princeton Tower Club - President; The Daily Princetonian - Associate Editor of Opinion; Naacho, Indian Dance Company - Artistic Director; Questbridge College Match Recipient