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I speak with entrepreneur and “good guy of the Indian startup scene”, Dhimant Parekh. He’s the founder and CEO of The Better India and The Better Home - the former is a media company that shines a spotlight on people making a difference, and the latter is a line of sustainable home-cleaning products. His LinkedIn bio starts with “I love to build useful stuff from scratch.”

When I floated the idea for this show on Twitter last year, more than one person wrote in saying I should definitely have him on the show. And that was a good idea - Dhimant was called, by one of those people, as the “most productive person I know”. Apart from running these two seemingly different companies, he also has a lot of outside interests - theatre, reading, the startup scene in general, quantum physics… all in all, great guest material for my humble little show.

What I spoke to Dhimant about:

How one's upbringing can really shape what they do in the future

On how parallel interests can rub off on each other

Finding your own work style (Dhimant, admittedly, is not a calendar-oriented person)

Why the most important skill today is the ability to narrate a story

How his company dealt with the pandemic and overcame several odds

Positivity and finding hope in a time like this

His various interests: from PASCAL to quantum physics. 

Everything Dhimant Parekh:

Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant

LinkedIn :- https://in.linkedin.com/in/dhimant

The companies he founded

The Better India :- https://www.thebetterindia.com/
The Better Home :- https://shop.thebetterindia.com/

Dhimant’s article about surviving and thriving as a business during Covid-19

YourStory :- https://yourstory.com/2020/08/business-advice-startup-founders-covid-19/amp
References made during the show, not in order:

Dhimant’s thread about how he imbibed empathy from his dad

Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant/status/1305138048431251461

The Pomodoro Technique, which Dhimant references, but doesn’t necessarily espouse

website :- https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique

Dhimant’s love for quantum physics can be seen in some of his Twitter threads - here is one, on one of the most famous equations of all time 

Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant/status/1293591687910981633

Buy Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov - a book which Dhimant recommends to get introduced to quantum physics
Goodreads :- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64794.Dancing_Wu_Li_Masters
Amazon :- https://www.amazon.in/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/0060959681

The books of Brian Green

website :- http://www.briangreene.org/books-and-writings/

Mindscape - Sean Carroll’s podcast

website :- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

Arrow of Time - Sean Carroll’s post

website :- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2004/10/27/the-arrow-of-time/

Dhimant’s blog

Medium :- https://medium.com/@dhimant/

The first post he wrote on it, which is referenced

Medium :- https://medium.com/@dhimant/how-we-founded-a-positive-news-organization-325574001d1a

An article your podcast host wrote about The Better Home in The Hard Copy

Link :- https://thehardcopy.co/from-content-to-commerce-the-better-home/

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