Hi, I’m Joy!

I spend my days at the intersection of Product, Wealth and FinTech and Communities at the company I founded, Infinyte.Club; the rest of my time is spent on creating, finding, seeking, choosing, sharing…joy :)

 

In Life:
I am a voracious reader, an inquisitive traveler, an edgy foodie, an unrelenting baker, an amateur photographer, and an unpublished writer, out-of-practice pianist, lover of languages. Some say distracted, I say dilettante. (Adverbs, be damned.)

At Work:
Founder at work - building an exceptional high-performance team to build the smartest wealth products for people like you and me, with a mission to create a million millionaires in India and Southeast Asia. More at Infinyte.Club

 

In-Between Work and Life, this has remained unchanged since the first time I wrote this in 2002 :)
Compulsive. Obsessive. Disordered. The words are mine, the connections yours. Child-woman always wears black and white. Mostly sarcastic tries to be funny. Talk a lot, Laugh even more. I love cooking and baking, can dance until 4 AM, laugh at inappropriate times, dream of spending my life travelling, and don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.

In former lives:
I spent 7 years at Sequoia Capital - India and Southeast Asia helping founders build the best products and a great company that attracts the best talent and customers. I spent my time understanding how the world's top founders build products and companies and then building software, learning products, experiences and communities for exceptional founders in this region.

  • Surge: Sequoia India's rapid scale-up program for early-stage startups in India and SE Asia
    · NPS > 90+ over the past 4 cohorts of over 69 companies with a 200+ strong founder community
    · Our Community Product available as a founder-only app is a platform for founders to connect, learn from and share resources with each other

  • Product and UX Operator: I work with Surge founders across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh on Product and UX. Doing what it takes to help founders build and launch
    - Test a new product or feature launch
    - Proofread decks
    - Send annoyingly detailed product and UX feedback
    - Mockup and write JTBD Stories for new features
    - Interview early hires in Product and UX

    The Guild: Community of the Top Tech Founders in India and Southeast Asia

    Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s internal machine intelligence/signal processing product to find and build the world's most interesting startups

 

I crafted chat products for Contact Centres of Fortune 500 companies, launched Civic Engagement Products to smoothen the process of Urban Governance in India, created top-grossing Casino Games and was also the only Indian woman among 15 selected from around the world for the 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellowship for working to keep the Internet open and working on ways the Internet makes democracy stronger.

The most exciting time in my career was when I worked with various startups in Bangalore to help with everything from UX to setting up coffee machines at 4 AM and also managed a gig with top entertainment studios in Los Angeles.