Winning Stroke: Interview with Prajit Nanu, co-founder & CEO of InstaReM

If not in the current Profession, you would be?

If I had not co-founded InstaReM, I would have been CEO of a Social Impact fund 

One tune you always hum?

Chumbawamba - I Get Knocked Down

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One Book to read when you want to motivate yourselves?

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

One Dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most?

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it" - The Wolf of Wall Street

The Place you never been to and always want to go?

I want to trek to Machu Picchu

An animal that signifies you & why?

Cheetah for his speed and focus on the target.

A Movie Character you most resemble or resonate with?

Ajay Devgan in YUVA

Choose one from each below:

    • Marvel or DC -  Marvel

    •  Batman or Superman – Superman

    • Tom or Jerry – Jerry, always the underdog

    • Chacha Chaudhary or Super Commando Dhruv – Super Commando Dhruv

If your life was to be turned into a movie who would you like to play your part?

No one, I don’t think any of them is handsome enough to play me.

Luck or Hard Work, what do you think weighs more in defining a successful Person?

Hard Work. I love what Ashton Kutcher said few years back – Build a life, don’t live one.

One best decision you ever made?

Got up one morning and decided to become an Entrepreneur. Quit my job and built Instarem.com from scratch which now is Asia’s leading digital cross-border payments company. I don’t get a bigger joy waking up to do something I am really passionate about.

A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in Personal or Professional life?

Leap before you think – I have always been that sort of guy.  

Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?

My Close friends P, G, M – Let me use initials so that other friends don’t yell at me.

What has been your biggest achievement?

The fact that my childhood friends are still with me. We have known each other for over 30 years now and even though everyone stays in different cities if needed we will be there for each other in less than a day. Love few, but love them well.  

One thing that you want to change in yourself?

I would like to get little more patient with people.

A line said by your closed one that you never forget?

My Father told me this, we live once so live well.