I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
“You are so ‘lucky’ to have such a helpful spouse. You should teach him how to change napkins too”, piped in a relative, 2 weeks after I had my kid. “I don’t think the childbirth included a manual that taught me how to change one and missed my husband’, I retorted. Much to my mom’s …
@naval – “I have this theory that 99% of work that you do is useless. You still have to do it because it’s iterating your way to the 1% that is useful. But, in an ideal world, if you are omniscient, you would just cut to the 1%.” “99% of the stuff you learned …
My sweet mom, who worked and retired at a government job for 35 odd years, once asked, “Ammu, all these unicorns you keep talking about – do they actually make 1Bn rupees of money?’ “It’s valued in USD, amma, not INR”, I replied. “Oh!’, she exclaimed and then started to multiply with 75, as just …
In the age of unicorns, decacorns and now, ‘soonicorns’ Read More »
Spent the morning being part of something that is a huge passion – speaking at WE Hub, A Government of Telangana Initiative at their ‘Data Science for students’ Program for – mentoring young girls in STEM. WE Hub is India’s First State-led incubator to foster Women Entrepreneurs, Urban Entrepreneurship and Social/ Impact Entrepreneurship The program was …
[Speaker] – WE Hub Initiative for ‘Data Science for students’ Program Read More »
Book # Title 1/52 The Psychology of Money 2/52 The Midnight Library 3/52 The Promised Land – Barack Obama 4/52 The Kabuliwalla – Rabindranath Tagore 5/52 The Henna Artist 6/52 The Last Queen 7/52 Tiny Habits 8/52 The Push 9/52 Greenlights 10/52 The man who solved the market 11/52 Think again, Adam Grant 12/52 Alchemy …
Ranjani Mani 2021 Read List – 52 Books I read this year! Read More »
Don’t set goals for 2022! Set Systems instead The man behind the Dilbert series, Scott Adams puts his success down to an alternative approach to goal setting. Setting systems vs goals “The Problem with goals is that they give you something to work toward, but accomplishments are fleeting. What’s more, if the goal is particularly …
“You cannot right click and save a community’ That is a brilliant analogy I was just thinking about the astounding pace at which tech around us has grown – wait, not in a decade – but just over the last 4-5 years. Nothing short of magic. ************************************ Ranjani Mani #NFT #reviewswithranjani #technologiesofthefuture
“Stop comparing your inside view with someone else’ outside” I was listening to Omer Khan’s SaaS podcast featuring ThoughtExchange’s CEO, Dave Macleod. Dave had once stopped reading Tech Crunch. Why? To avoid seeing fabulous stories of IPO’s and Funding rounds when his company was still trying to get a grapple on their customer segment. You …
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How Startups Funding works Journey from idea to IPO of a hypothetical startup Such a great view by Adioma Infographics. I also like how it calls out how the value relatively moves from 100% of nothing is a lot less than to x % of a huge company 🙂 ******************** Ranjani Mani #reviewswithranjani #funding #infographic of the …
How Startups Funding Works – An End to End journey Read More »
This was quite a passionate topic to talk about. How does AI drive and influence Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Download deck here