About

I am Utkarsh. I am currently pursuing an MBA at the Columbia Business School in New York. Before this, I spent ~2.5 years as a VC at Elevation Capital in India, focusing on early-stage investments in Fintech and Blockchain. Before Elevation, spent a couple of years as a Product Manager at Urban Company in Gurgaon, India.

I use this blog to summarize books that I have found worthwhile and jot down thoughts about startups / VC / entrepreneurship, and life in general. Success here means that I have practical and repeatable frameworks to practice in daily life. Firmly believe that not written is not thought. Writing here for an audience of one but am always happy to get praise and brickbats from the occasional passerby.

Outside of work, I am always up for a Quiz. You can find some quizzes I conducted here.

I can be reached at utkarsh.b@columbia.edu

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