Making sense of how life experiences have shaped me

2022-now: Building web3 infra @Circle

2021-2022: Falling into the crypto rabbithole

I was following blockchain for a couple of years but from the outside. A personal break in Amsterdam got me to finally understand the technology, and as they say “fall into the crypto rabbithole”. That started a journey of learning & building full-time everyday across DAOs & side projects.

I have been particularly interested in using the incentive-ownership of crypto to coordinate human behaviour. During this time, I did the following:

• Developed a lite-paper for a community-owned venture fund focussed on climate founders (read it here)
• Interviewed 100+ DAO contributors & freelancers to design a tokenized martkeplace & community
• Ran multiple experiments: Vanir (work wallet), BountyBoard (DAO tools), Skout.team (freelancing marketplace)
• Member of Gitcoin Kernel KB7, Ondeck Founder Fellow, Stanford Blockchain Club, Invisible College, Seed-club

2020: Operating at Scale @Amazon

Worked as a Product Manager Technical to develop product-strategy for short-form content as part of the Kindle/Prime offering (million+ subscribers). Learnt the Amazon way of building that I will utilize in my next startup. Most primarily how systems can help scale culture in an organization (thanks to PR releases, leadership principles etc).

Recieved a full time offer to join but decided I want to build something of my own

2019-2021: Awareness, Learning and Community @Stanford GSB

So grateful to have the opportunity to go to Stanford GSB. Thought I would learn everything about business but suprisingly my most impactful learning was around self-awareness, growth mindset while having a net-giver community of friends across the globe. I ended up spending a lot of time learning about early stage startup formation - specifically all the mistakes that I did in my entrepreneur journey.

2014-2019: The roller coaster that is entrepreneurship

Everything I have learnt professionally is thanks to the 5 year roller coaster that was Docon. Docon started as a small side project for my mother’s clinic that ended up becoming India’s largest medical records platform. Through Docon, I worked on every aspect of startup building: a bootsrapped entrepreneur doing door-to-door sales to managing a 150 member team & $20M + in VC commitments. I was lucky to have two wonderful co-founders along this journey. We ended up selling the company to Pharmeasy as we believed that was the best way to grow.

2009-2013: Finding my calling

PEC (my undergrad) was my journey of exploration. I discovered early on that I was less interested about things inside the classroom & more about stuff outside. My time was mostly spent on two things:

• leadership roles at college (president of student council & career placement cell) that helped me discovered how much I enjoyed leading people
• 5 internships across banking, investing, factory floor, project planning that helped me discovered building new things is what I love

These insights led me to chose the path of entrepreneurship after graduation.