Ashwini Anburajan - An Unexpected Turn Led Her to Be an Early Pioneer and Thought Leader in The Blockchain Sector
This conversation is with Ashwini Anburajan. After graduating from Brown University, Ashwini worked in journalism and media covering Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Barack Obama in various roles. This vaulted her into an exciting and diverse role at BuzzFeed, but then Ashwini got urge to build her own company, OpenUp. This was not well-planned - so she had bootstrap and fund the company by creating freelance and consulting work from her friends. She then got accepted into 500 Startups, a prestigious accelerator program in San Francisco. After an unexpected turn of events to and with OpenUp, she launched a cryptocurrency company, 22X Fund, with fellow accelerator founder friends. As an early expert in the blockchain sector, this opened a lot of new doors and opportunities. We talk a lot about career development, creating earned media from scratch, story telling, business development, etc. And so much more to build and grow your Portfolio Career. Tune in and let's have some fun!
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Show Notes
Notable quotes:
-"I told my boss “I want to build a startup and she was like…. you should leave”
-“I just sorted of tried things and the fearlessness to just try it opens a lot of a lot of doors”
-“I think having the one thing that you are good at” and it is part of your job, you are naturally going to excel
Key highlights:
-Talks a lot about how to bootstrap and self-fund a new company and project
-Believes we are in the early stages of Blockchain, which is forming a new internet and a new value transfer module.
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