Dipesh Sukhani is one of the co-founders of BuildBear, a startup that offers a testanet so developers can easily test out dApps or decentralized apps.  

Their tool helps you launch your web3 products faster and at scale. Oh, and they were recently accepted into Iterative’s sixth cohort. 

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👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

I am [one] of the technical co-founders of a SaaS Product: BuildBear that aims to automate the testing of Web3 Applications. I am the product owner for BuildBear.

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🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

As a part of testing Web3 Applications, we often are the first ones to find bugs in Web3 Applications. We often witness bugs even after the production release of the applications!

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🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

1.  Academically I am a qualified CPA;
2. Professionally, I practiced in the field of International Tax Law matters and worked with various Big4 Companies; [the] last being PwC.
3. Self-taught developer and Smart Contract Engineer
4. Participated in my life's first hackathon and landed up creating the winning project, raising millions of $$ in it.

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🔍 What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?‍

ME: ChatGPT, which start-up space is hot?

ChatGPT: Do I need to answer this question? Isn't it obvious?

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💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry? 

Work! Do not fall into the trap of All-Talk-No-Show! There are a lot of fakes flying around.

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🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours? 

Technology, Technology, and Technology.

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🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show? 

Movie: (keeping aside the Hindi ones), The Pursuit of Happyness.

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🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?‍

Magnum's Chocolate Almond and Singapore's Birds of Paradise's pistachio flavor. 

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FYI. We’ve edited this interview for clarity.