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Payal Banerjee
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Comms head & dabbler in marketing & . Trying to make a difference . Love startups, black coffee, Broadway & seeing the 🌎
Bangaloreinstagram.com/window_seat_gi…Joined May 2010

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Thank you @RashiSN for your inspiring stories in season 1 of #SheBuilds. The show won big at the Asian Academy of Creative awards. Would not have been possible without you. Thanks for #SparkingTheFlame 🔥
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So proud of our series #SHEBUILDS for winning Best Branded Content (India) at the @AsianAcademyCr1 Directed by @SacredInsanity @sikhyaent @SequoiaIndiaSEA @GayatriPYadav #womenentrepreneurs #sequoiaspark #womenleaders
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“I have what it takes because I’m a woman” “Putting her in a box is not possible” “We are dreamers I guess…” She Builds is back with a season 2. Because we must never stop shining the light on the stories that make us believe we can! #tribeofstrongwomen #SequoiaSpark
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We’re thrilled to launch S2 of She Builds, a series on #femalefounders created in partnership with @natgeoindia to inspire every woman – and every girl – to discover her spark & know that she, too, can start and scale an enduring company. Ep1 drops tmrw! Catch a sneak peak👇📽️
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9/ We are, at least on a much yellowed paper aka the sale deed, owners of a burning ghat somewhere in Bihar. Which apparently the heirs, i.e us, can “peaceably and quietly posses and enjoy…” The poetic irony of that line is not lost on me… Fin.
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8/ After this the details get hazy. My parents gen are not sure whether folks tried to find this Mr. Roy from Pondicherry & book him for fraud. Or whether the illustrious Sen family was too embarrassed about being taken for a ride & swept this under the ‘razai’. So to this day…
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7/ This man had sold them a place where the village folks performed the last rites of the dear & departed. Needless to say it didn’t even belong to him. (Can you even own a cremation ground??) It’s like those Bollywood films where crooks sell naive foreigners the Taj Mahal.
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6/ they are super confused. Because the address on the sale deed doesn’t lead them to the empty plot the seller had led them to believe was there. I mean…it was empty-ish. But that’s because IT WAS A CREMATION GROUND!!!
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5/ He then proposes that they go & check out this land they own, given no one in the family has ever laid eyes on it. Quite a reasonable request if you ask me. So off everyone goes to admire their property, which was purportedly on the edges of a village. But once there…
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4/ So land gets bought. One-third acre for the then princely sum of Rs. 200. The Sen family women are very pleased. Everything is chugging along happily. Till my grandad, who was off in London studying for his doctorate, comes back to India.
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3/ …a certain Mr. Roy who lived in Pondicherry and had a plot of land he wanted to sell asap! My grandmom and grand aunts got in touch with said gentleman. Negotiations ensued. For some unfathomable reason, they decided to buy it…without going to check it out in person.
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2/ So apparently back in the early 1960’s, my grandmom & her sisters decided they want to be landowners in their own right. They started asking around for any interesting plots up for sale. At this time, an acquaintance or neighbour (details are sketchy here) intro-ed them to…
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When Van Gogh meets Durga Puja. A pandal inspired by his ‘The Starry Nights’ & ‘Sunflowers’. #DurgaPuja, esp in Calcutta, is always an explosion of art & imagination. Last year #UNESCO included this festival in the intangible #cultural heritage of humanity representative list.
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I’ve owned this top for nearly a year. And I literally just discovered this (hidden-ish) line which you can only see when you roll up your sleeve (which I never do). The universe finds its way of sending you messages.
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Great to be meeting Founders and Investors in-person this week. Looking forward keenly to the sessions: "Time to Build" by "Navigating a World in Transition" by #GIC's Chief Investment Officer for Private Equity and "Building for Scale" by #PitStop
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This year, we celebrate 5 years of #SequoiaPitStop – our annual growth equity conference. We’re excited to welcome global investment firms to meet our portfolio #founders in Singapore on 13 & 14 Sept as we reignite connections in person! @GuptPiy @singh_sequoia @gohdikun
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You know those folks who go around wearing a badge that says, “Lose weight now, ask me how”? Does anyone ever ask them?
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And jlt, it’s time for cohort 02 of #SequoiaSpark. Excited to add to our fledgling Spark community & our ever growing tribe of awesome female founders at . This is for you if you’re a #femalefounder building something cool in #India or #SEA, or know of one. 👇🏻
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Last year, we launched the Sequoia Spark fellowship program with a $100K equity-free grant & immersive mentorship to support aspiring female founders in India & Southeast Asia! Today, we’re thrilled to open applications for #Spark02. Read more, apply👇1/ sequoiacap.com/india/article/
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