- Ajay MehtaI'm the founder/CEO of Birthdate Co. We've sold hundreds of thousands of personalized candles and books since launching in 2019.
I co-founded Therapy Notebooks which was named one of Cosmopolitan's favorite products in 2020 and is available at stores across America.
I co-founded Chalo Vote, a non-profit founded in 2020 to promote voter registration and turnout among South Asian Americans.
Here's some other stuff:- I advise and invest in businesses, including: Sanzo, MatchaBar, The Juggernaut, Magic Mind, Lolli, Short Stories, and more
- I helped make a comedy variety show called "Hey, How Ya Doin?" — with creator/star Ashok Kondabolu and guests John Hodgman and Aparna Nancherla
- Here's a story I wrote for New York about India's budding religious e-commerce industry and a piece for The Caravan on Indian users of Quora
I'm from Seattle. I graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in computer science.Previous work:I was director of international for Wealthsimple, which is now Canada's largest fintech company. where I led our US launch and US/UK product development. Before that, I was on the original team at Tilt before it was acquired by Airbnb.Before Tilt, I co-founded a startup called FamilyLeaf with seed investment from Y Combinator. We were featured in the New York Times and elsewhere, and were acquired by Origami Labs in early 2013.You can learn a bit more about me in a (dated) profile in the Seattle Times or my interview with the "You People" podcast. I had the best/luckiest first job ever.