Ritesh Nagpal
Met 2023-02-19 09:00 at ITC Gardenia, 1 Residency Rd, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India.Created a bedtime story book for kids. First the Hindi version then translated to English.
Grew up in Kota, Rajasthan, 250km from Jaipur. Got his masters at Purdue, Indiana.
Product manager at Amazon.
Kids are now six and one. The six-year-old is suddenly organized, keeping a clean room, now that the one-year-old tries to get into his stuff.
His mother died suddenly with him at home. Feels guilty for what he could have done, even though he knows it’s nothing.
Told me the story of the Gita, the cousins fighting - 5 vs 100 - and one decides not to fight, so Vishnu tells him the contents of the Gita.
Vision for a company is Useful Not True.
Taught me about UPI - unified payment interface - how it works - and that everyone has it now - all in the last 5-6 years.
PayTM Sound Box can tell vendors when someone has paid - speaks it in any language, how much was received.
Bangalore has nothing outdoorsy to do. Hyderabad has many things to do.
Joke about divorce: There was a city with no rain for many years. The priest said tomorrow we’ll pray for rain. When everybody gathered for the prayers, he said, first thing first, how many brought an umbrella?