Kids! 

Am reading a book on the science of happiness.  It describes an academic experiment where a 4 year old is sitting in a room with 2 adults.  One of the adult moves out of the room. The other adult places a jar of cookies, which until now was on the table, in...

Overnight success?

  Yourstory covered the journey from Groupon to nearbuy.    It chronicles our journey in the past 9 months, from 12 cities to 33 cities 3 categories to 18 categories 100% groupon tech to 100% nearbuy tech a zero member tech team to a 75 member tech team selling a...

Weekend at ISB Mohali

Was at the gorgeous Mohali campus this weekend. I love it there. On some levels better than Hyderabad. More so because I see a sense of belonging and ownership within the batch. Hyderabad, always my first love, acts transactional at times. And I am unable to relate to...

Dinner with who? 

Left office at 830pm last evening. I don’t have dinner as a meal, but was super hungry yesterday. Almost on the border of indulgence.  Ordered my Uber  And then ordered paneer rolls.  The cab and rolls arrived at the same time. Stepped out of...

Local Maxima

Ruchi asked me last night – “what was the highlight of the day”.  It got me thinking. For far longer than I expected. I finally gave her an answer.  But the answer wasn’t the answer I wanted to give.  Of course there was a...