01Episode notes
Bennu: In this Chapter One Bennu conversation, Saikat Chatterjee shares his path from PhD research and academia into industry, field-lab work, startups, product development, and the broader startup ecosystem in the Netherlands. The episode focuses on transferable skills, evidence, networking, identity capital, and the challenge of making academic or technical experience legible in a market context. Saikat emphasizes that career transition is not always reinvention. Often, it is translation: explaining what you already know how to do in the language of teams, products, workflows, and hiring decisions. Read through the Flux Forward Activation lens, this is a Navigation episode: when the system changes, your skills need a new interface.