Exploring the world of social apps - by Sar Haribhakti
Today’s chat is with Anu Atluru, an angel investor and writer. Anu most recently spent two years at the social audio company Clubhouse. She was the first business hire and served as the first Head of Community. She’s got an eclectic background and is one of the most interesting people I follow online. Sar: I would never have guessed that you are an MD and used to work as a physician. You went from a highly deterministic career path to chaos and uncertainty in the consumer startup world. People who go down the medical path tend to have a strictly defined way of making an impact and doing good. At the risk of generalization, they tend not to be creative and risk-taking in ways you would assume an average startup person is. Anu: Counterintuitively, I have found inherently creative, curious, and risk-tolerant people in medicine and tech. You can also find people who are not these things in both. For example, in the tech world, enterprise SaaS startups and big tech jobs are viewed as the “s
Today’s chat is with Anu Atluru, an angel investor and writer. Anu most recently spent two years at the social audio company Clubhouse. She was the first business hire and served as the first Head of Community. She’s got an eclectic background and is one of the most interesting people I follow online. Sar: I would never have guessed that you are an MD and used to work as a physician. You went from a highly deterministic career path to chaos and uncertainty in the consumer startup world. People who go down the medical path tend to have a strictly defined way of making an impact and doing…
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