Silicon Valley In Reverse - Learnings | by Yashvardhan Kanoi | Medium

Google, Apple, And Facebook defined innovation at scale during my sophomore days. Silicon Valley was one of my well prepared interview answers for “Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?”. A dream. The year was 2019 and having gone up the conventional corporate ladder for a couple of years, I itched to do something different - to embrace uncertainty with open arms. A random facebook group notification led to a social impact investing fellowship in bangalore and there I was - living, eating & learning from 12 global citizens out there to move the needle on social entrepreneurship. Truly transformational experience professionally & personally. The emerging market is a double edged sword. While it presents unique zero to one opportunities and double digit growth potential, the institutional voids makes execution hard, very hard. And thats exactly where my next adventure was - in Indonesia, in a startup company, right at the time when fintech was picking up steam there. This time a

Google, Apple, And Facebook defined innovation at scale during my sophomore days. Silicon Valley was one of my well prepared interview answers for “Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?”. A dream. The year was 2019 and having gone up the conventional corporate ladder for a couple of years, I itched to do something different - to embrace uncertainty with open arms. A random facebook group notification led to a social impact investing fellowship in bangalore and there I was - living, eating & learning from 12 global citizens out there to move the needle on social entrepreneurship. Truly