Background
I was born in a small suburb of New Delhi. My father began his career there as a support engineer at Digital, which created the world’s first firewall. His fascination with the burgeoning internet security business carried my family to Sunnyvale when it was still the land of cherry orchards.
I was fortunate to grow up coding. I spent nights and weekends experimenting with various Linux distros, building iPhone apps and trying to revive CPUs I had accidentally fried with prodigious overclocking. I spent undergrad attending hackathons, building one failed app after another and getting deeper in networks, cryptography and machine learning.
I returned to the Valley to build and eventually lead enterprise products at Atlassian, a BCV company. In some ways, BCV guided my career before I even knew it. Product management ingrained in me that a special team can move mountains. I think the same applies to venture.
