Education

University of California, Los Angeles

B.A. Communications

Podcasts

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766: What It’s Like to be Director of Business Development With Tina Tran, Microsoft [Main T4C Episode]

Tina Tran is a director of business development at Microsoft, where she leads mobile platform and OEM partnerships. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2019, Tina led AR/VR Future of Work enterprise partnerships at Facebook and a $10M educational VR content fund at Oculus. She serves on the board of directors..

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“It’s a mindset of asking people for help. It’s a mindset of being sincere. It’s a mindset of not being afraid to ask for help. Cause I know a lot of peoples you feel a little shy about asking, if you don’t ask you to get, there’s no harm. Cause as they say, no, you are in the same place, but they might just say yes.”

Best Career Advice

“Shoot for the moon, surround yourself with better people who believe in and what you do and it will be okay.”

Career Challenge

“I think the hardest time that I had in my career was when there was a recession in 2008. It was a recession at the time but nobody called it a recession until afterwards. I lost my job and had such a hard time finding a new job because nobody was hiring. And so there’s some things that are out of your control, but you need to kind of keep trying. At first I lost my job and then I lost my engagement and I was really down on my luck”

Skills

Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Developer Relations, Strategy, Start-Ups, Mobile Devices, Analytics, Product Management, Advertising, User Experience, Management, Leadership, Public Speaking