Q- If not your current profession, what would you be?
I would love to be a chef, especially a pastry chef. I really enjoy cooking and have started dabbling in pastry after I made my first Tiramisu on Thanksgiving last year.
Q- One tune you always hum?
Manmarziyan from Lootera.
Q- One book to read when you want to motivate yourself?
The Holy Geeta by Chinmayanand - I have read it many times but whenever I feel demotivated, I somehow find a verse that relates to the particular situation I am in and the words always motivate me.
Q- One movie dialogue that motivates you?
You are not here to make a choice. You have already made it. You are here to understand why you made it. - The Oracle, Matrix
Q - The place you never been to and always want to go to?
Sao Paulo in Brazil. I have many friends there and love the pictures they post. They have some unique liveliness and positivity.
Q- An animal that signifies you & why?
I would say the Eagle. It soars freely in the Sky and has vision, elegance and freedom - all qualities I admire.
Q- A movie character you most resemble or resonate with?
I have always resonated with Neo from Matrix - Trying to understand what the world around him really is.
Q- Choose one from each below:
o Marvel or DC - DC
o Batman or Superman - Batman
o Tom or Jerry - Jerry
o Chacha Chaudhary or Super Command or Dhruv - Chacha Chaudhary
Q- If your life was to be turned into a movie who would you like to play your part as which character?
That would be one boring movie, haha but friends say Abhay Deol sometimes has the same contemplative vibe that I have. No idea what that means!
Q- Luck or hard work, what do you think weighs more in defining a successful person?
I think we underestimate luck in success and it gets less credit than due.
Q- One best decision you have ever made?
Interning at an innovation consulting firm. I worked with people from different backgrounds - PHDs in renaissance art to experts in behavioral psychology. I understood the importance of how diverse perspectives help build great products.
Q- A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in personal or professional life?
Understand if it is a reversible or an irreversible decision and never confuse the two. If it is reversible, it can be corrected later, so don’t overanalyze it.
Q- Whose advice you seek when in dilemma?
It depends on the dilemma. e.g If I have a dilemma involving someone’s/ my own behavior, I ask my mom who is a child psychologist. If I need perspective, I usually talk to my co-founder, Ashutosh who has a very unique philosophical angle to it.
Q- What has been your biggest achievement?
Being okay with not getting praised for good things I do. The things I do don’t become less important because people don’t notice/ appreciate it. It is quite freeing as the fun comes in doing things, not the appreciation after.
Q- One thing that you want to change in yourself?
Staying up late - I am a chronic night owl and am working towards changing it.
Q- A line said by your closed one that you never forget?
In 2nd year of my engineering, my dad told me. Your definition of freedom is not correct. It is not ‘Freedom to….”. It is “Freedom from... ”. Simple, yet life-changing.
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