“Traveler, there are no roads. Roads are made by walking”.

This has been my life motto and email signature for over quarter of a century. In that quarter of a century, I have forked out to an untrodden path many times:

1. Started a business festival in the shadow of the dotcom bust with a very unlikely sounding name: Vista at IIM Bangalore

2. Started the first innovation program at an IT Services company: TCS COIN

3. Started India’s first EIR program

4. Cofounded Tata CRL that made the 4th fastest supercomputer in the World: Eka

5. Cofounded India’s largest early stage startup community: Headstart

6. Started India’s first Mortgagetech startup: SwitchMe. Pivoted it to a B2B model with a new name: AMORQA and finally exited it to the ill fated 4B Network.

This blog continues to be about making roads – exploring new ideas, questions, thoughts and directions that grab my attention and sometime ruminations on the past to draw out lessons. I share my explorations here for two reasons:

1. Writing Clarifies Thought: Writing helps me refine my ideas – reading them helps me edit them and organize them better.

2. Thoughts progress through conversations: Conversations lead to new perspectives, expose gaps and challenge my conclusions. I hope this content sparks discussions that help me learn faster.

But, my explorations remain my own and not that of the readers – these are the questions I am interested in and may or may not match your expectations!

So, as a reader, why should you care? I don’t know actually but I hope that some of the areas that interest me, may interest you as well - startups, technology, technology adoption, AI, community and organization dynamics, India, economics and finance.

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