Aishwarya Balaji On How She Runs Multiple Companies At Once, How She Learned What's Right for Her, Investing and more!
What's On Your Mind
English - November 30, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome back! Today, Yanaiya sits down with Aishwarya Balaji, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur, TEDx and global speaker and investor who focuses on identifying tech and consumer trends early. She runs a startup consultancy working with creatives, entrepreneurs and early-staged startups to find product market-fit and scale businesses in alignment with their personal goals. She also is the CEO & co-founder of A Fresh Sip, an alcohol-free beverage platform that makes it easy to discover and buy the best non-alcoholic spirits, wines, and functional beverages. Aish shed light on early stage investing and how she learned what works best for her. She embraces her quirks and this is how she is able to maximize her time!
Prior to this Aishwarya has been an angel investor for 37 Angels and NextGen Venture Partners and a mentor for Techstars, MIT Launch and Startup India. She previously built a wellness startup called Bystander, a platform that simplified wellness navigation and information discovery and prior to that she launched Impact Chain Lab, a blockchain innovation lab focused on global development. Aishwarya has also spent time as a global consultant for PwC working with fortune 500 clients on technology and security in the consumer products space. Aishwarya has given a TEDx and spoken around the world including at Harvard, Stanford, in India and Morocco on topics relating to healthy entrepreneurship, venture capital, emerging technology and breaking stigmas around building businesses.
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Website: aishwaryabalaji.com
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