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Shailesh Jejurikar and the education of an ordinary chore
Before he led Procter & Gamble, Shailesh Jejurikar learned to look closely at the laundry. From a small operation in Kenya to the CEO’s office in Cincinnati, his career follows the distance between what a company assumes and what a consumer actually does.
Anish Khadiya and the Five-Email Flight
A flight booking used to take Anish Khadiya three to five emails. The former McKinsey consultant and Myntra strategist co-founded ITILITE to untangle business travel, then discovered how much work begins after a ticket is booked.
Anish Popli and the business of small things
A steel-town childhood, a procurement desk at BHEL, and a question about who does the chasing. How the founder of ProcMart came to see a business in the purchases factories would rather not think about.
Sanchit Mullick
Sanchit Mullick is the co-founder and CEO of Reveal HealthTech, a New York-based AI transformation firm for U.S. healthcare and life sciences that closed a $7.2M Series A led by Leo Capital in September 2025. Before Reveal, he spent nearly two decades at Infosys, ending as global head of sales for AI & Automation, then led private-equity sales at GlobalLogic. He built Reveal in 2023 with clinician Dr. Salim Afshar and Andrew Bravo, incubated by W Health Ventures and 2070 Health, around two products: BioCanvas for multimodal clinical AI and Prism AI for workflow agents.
Nakul Mandan
Nakul Mandan is the founder and managing partner of Audacious Ventures, a $250M pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. A graduate of IIT Kanpur and IIM Lucknow, he arrived in the US in 2009 on an H-1B visa and spent a decade investing at Battery Ventures and Lightspeed before launching Audacious in April 2020 — during COVID lockdowns. His firm's unconventional edge: embedding a full recruiting operation inside a VC fund, with technical recruiters actively running executive and engineering searches for portfolio companies. He has backed companies including WorkOS, Tome, FalconX, and Multiverse, and is known for his framework of five founder traits: high IQ, outsized ambition, the ability to make people believe, grit, and velocity.