Ajay Rajani - Enabling You to Showcase and Share Your Portfolio Career with Mural
This conversation is with Ajay Rajani. His motto is “empathize, hypothesize, test, and scale.” In addition to having dynamic roles like founding CMO of Tala and Director of Product for Grovo, Ajay is a frequent project tinkerer. He talks about how and why he scratches his itch with ideas and products. In addition to writing, “How to Build Your Portfolio as a Product Manager” on LinkedIn, Ajay talks about frameworks and ways to support grow and strengthen your work while working at a big company (as an example). And to create templates to de-risk your onboarding when getting your first freelance and consulting client. He has now created a product and company for the Portfolio Career Community, Mural. The startup has raised funding from 500 Startups and wants to provide you a better way to collect and share your work and projects. Think professional website meets LinkedIn for Future of Work. The product and vision is great. Excited to find products to support a Portfolio Career lifestyle from people that have one like Ajay. Tune in and let's have some fun!
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Show Notes
Key highlights:
-Mural is a platform and product for knowledge workers to lead with their best work, as opposed to job titles. Believe everything will be on the cloud and one link away. Able to showcase select work for selected people. Could also be used to update certain people on regular basis like advisors and past collaborators.
Three components in picking and working on new projects:
- does it have a sustainable business model
- is it something that I enjoy doing
- does it move the world forward for a group of people that I care about
Advice while working on projects:
- What were the outcomes did you drive?
- What did you actually learn and are the skills transferable?
- What mini networks did you create and have because of your portfolio career lifestyle? You are building something incredibly proprietary -- a web of trust across projects that you have created.
Quotes:
-“I have been on a journey to discover my purpose”
-“You are building your network when you don’t even realize it”
-“Your narrative becomes non-traditional and you need to deliberate about how you tell your story”
Resources:
-Mural
-Ajay's Mural - a portfolio of his best work and direct link
-Personal website
-LinkedIn March 2018 published work - "how to build your "portfolio" as a product manager"
-Recent blog post titled "Any Given Monday"