- Ajay Mehta
I'm the founder/CEO of Birthdate Co. We've sold over one million 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, The Juggernaut, Magic Mind, Lithos Carbon, Highbeam, Soft Services, Immi Ramen, Intro, and more
- I produced a comedy short Pennies from Heaven which won the SXSW Shorts award
- 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. Before that, I was on the original team at Tilt before it was acquired by Airbnb. And before that, I co-founded a startup called FamilyLeaf with seed investment from Y Combinator. We were featured in the New York Times and elsewhere.
You can learn a bit more about me in a (dated) profile in the Seattle Times or my interview with Kareem Rahma's "You People" podcast. I had the best/luckiest first job ever.