Wherever someone finds you online, they meet an incomplete you. If we’re connected on LinkedIn, you probably know I recently ran a restaurant, but wouldn’t know how much I love the outdoors. On Instagram, you’d see I enjoy cooking, but wouldn’t know I’m a product management geek. You’ll find my writings on Medium, but how do we talk about plants? Twitter… great for baking memes. What about Facebook? Only when I’m feeling brown-brown.
They say: ‘bring your whole self’ to work. Well, here I am.
Gulab Janu, at your service.
Startups
My love affair with startups began when I co-founded chOpaal, group texting for pre-smartphone millennials. It became very popular, but made no money.
Years later, I found myself in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I worked at VC-funded rollercoasters and geeked out on product management. Eventually, burnt out, I dropped out of the tech rat race to open a good ol’ restaurant in Toronto, right before COVID…
My startup work has been featured by Business Insider, BlogTO, and DAWN.
International Development
In between startups, I worked at the World Bank, where I learned about government and politics and deployed large scale data collection systems, and started Technology for People Initiative, a Google-funded non-profit, to locally design tech for government.
My development work has been featured by Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and The Economist.
Latest posts
- Not gone
- Embed GA post view count in WP
- 30 under 30
- “Have you come to meet me, or to read Newsweek?”
- Saved by health-workers
- Price of immigration
- “Not a financial decision”
- It’s not easy to open a Roshan Digital Account, but it can be made much easier.
- Clubhouse: Small food business owners and impacts of COVID
