I was born in India, moved to New York as a kid, went back to Mumbai for middle and high school, then came to the U.S. for Penn. I've been in New York since, which at this point is most of my adult life.

I started two companies. The first one I left after realizing it wasn't the right path — that exit coincided with my first Vipassana retreat, which rearranged some things. The second, Kindred, does AI-powered performance management. I'm also a Senior VP at Pioneer Fund, where I invest in early-stage companies.

The rest of the week is practice. I sit for an hour every morning — Vipassana is the foundation, though I'm increasingly interested in jhana work. I go to IMS NYC for dharma talks and sit with a small group on Thursdays. It's not a side hobby. It's the main thing, and everything else is organized around it.

My wife Shivantika wrote a book called Bombay || New York — we hosted the launch at Fountainhas in the city. Our son Sohum was born in February 2024, and our second kid is due in August. Family dinner is at 7pm every night. That's not negotiable.

The transition I'm in is pretty simple to describe and hard to live: I spent a decade performing ambition, and now I'm trying to stop. I'm less interested in what I can build and more interested in whether I'm actually present while I'm building it. The Forbes bylines, the WSJ and NYT mentions — those are real but they feel like they belong to a different version of me.

I still get excited about new things. I still have twelve ideas running at any given time. I'm an Enneagram 7 — the restlessness isn't going anywhere. But I'm more honest now about which things matter and which are just the mind looking for something to chase.