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Wisdom, shared as Stories, told by Founders

We tell stories of and by ordinary yet courageous people who set out to change the world by starting up at an extraordinary cost to themselves, stories of success and failure, of intelligence and emotions that founders experience. We hope to see you engage with these stories and use them to make your own life a story worth telling.

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Stories by founders

Babaji ki Booty

“Would you like to see my hole?” asked Babaji. I didn’t know how to respond to it. So I just smiled. He then decided that he should stop making the buttermilk and show me his hole.

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Stories of Founders

“Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.” - Bob Burg

We spoke to Pravin Budhauliya of Degree 212 Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd, about how personal philosophy matters when it comes to wealth management, and in building long term working relationships. Pravin founded Degree 212 Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd in April 2012 to provide the ‘one last push that matters’ when it comes to wealth management. Wanting to provide more to his customers, and to escape the ‘revenue generation’ race that plagues the corporate sector, Pravin set out to create a company where the focus is squarely on building customer relationships, and not on selling a product. Breaking even within just two months since its inception, Degree 212 has grown from strength to strength.

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Stories by founders

Aatma Nirbhar

“Onions, potatoes, tomatoes, brinjals, chillies! Come and get them!” announced a young boy at the top of his voice outside my house. After a couple of seconds, another voice yelled the same thing. After a few times, the propaganda stopped.

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Stories of Founders

“There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices and persistence.” - Michelle Obama

Aditya from Greendeck talks about learning constantly and striking the right conversation to get your pitch across the line. Aditya started TrueMD, a digital pharmacy and HealthOS, an open healthcare dataset platform in 2016 with his partners Aayush Jain, Yashvardhan Srivastava, and Aayush Agarwal. After being acquired by a pharma company in 2017, he helped co-found Greendeck, a price optimisation and competitor monitoring platform for retailers, where he is currently the Chief Operating Officer.

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Stories by founders

Muh mai Rajniganda

‘AAAAH,’ Rohit winced in pain as he held one side of his face. I stopped and looked at him. It was Diwali and a few of us friends were celebrating it over lunch at Rohit’s place. His mom had filled the table with all kinds of Gujarati delicacies followed by sweets.

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Stories of Founders

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs

We spoke to Dr. Renuka Karandikar of BioPrime, about her team’s work on plant responses, and on narrowing down the “Yield gap”. After completing her doctoral research in plant biology, Dr. Renuka co-founded BioPrime with her batchmates from the Savitribai Phule Pune University. At BioPrime, Dr. Renuka and her team develop biological solutions for farmers, to enable the full potential of their seeds and crops. Having to work with modern-day research and on optimising it for the grassroots level has helped Dr. Renuka formulate innovative solutions that facilitate change which a farmer can visualise.

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Stories by founders

Maid of Honour

"I don’t believe you" exclaimed a friend “you’re lying” she teased. "No. Seriously. This really did happen!” I tried to convince her about what my maid did.

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Stories of Founders

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” -Winston Churchill

We had a candid chat with Abhay Rangan, founder of Goodmylk about being a vegan activist and how that led to founding a venture to solve a problem. In his journey so far, Abhay has had to play many roles, starting from being a delivery boy for Goodmylk’s products to collecting awards as a Founder.

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Watching the traffic move by from the 35th floor of the balcony in Powai I couldn’t stop myself from thinking of the worst case scenario.

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Stories of Founders

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms

Vipin Joe talks about his experience as a product designer, and on maintaining the balance between his creative vision and the realities of manufacturing the actual product in his shop. Despite not having a single module on furniture in his product design education, Vipin now has a product design practice that also partly deals with furniture. With a firm opinion that the design and making of a product should happen under the same roof, Chackoshop is a testament to Vipin’s beliefs.

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What We Do

8infinity is a platform for telling and creating stories. We intend to do two things. First, tell stories of founders and second, build products to help everyone to become founders. Our aim is simple: to help in making your life a story worth telling.

How We Write

We like to have casual conversations with founders to understand them and their journey. We record these informal interviews and convert them into the stories. Each story takes about 5 people working together for about a week till it reaches you, the reader.