Prayag Narula

@prayagn

Founder & Rabble Rouser . New Dad. Berkeley & YC alum. Love cooking, food, history, scotch, poetry and startups. Immigrant.

Berkeley, CA
leadgenius.com/our-story
Joined March 2008
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  1. Jan 24

    Heartbroken to hear about Leila. Samasource was a big inspiration for us behind starting a social impact company. Leila’s zeal and her convictions changed the world. The world is poorer without her in it.

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  2. Jan 22

    Most value adding promises from VCs are not useful BUT this type of support for founders is really really great. I really really hope this trends catches on.

    Could venture capital expand its "value-add" to include mental healthcare for founders? thinks so.
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  3. Jan 8

    Some of these policies worked while the others failed. But there was always a long-term solution design oriented thinking both in public and private sector which I appreciated.

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  4. Jan 8

    When I lived in Finland I saw a number of social problems but was impressed by a genuine willingness of the people to want to fix them using long term substantial policies.

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  5. Jan 8

    I hate that Americans think Finland is some sort of hippie, socialist utopia with silver bullet solutions to social problems. This type of narrative doesn't do justice to the hard work that goes into formulating sound policies and to general public who invests in them

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  6. Jan 8

    Finland just invests more in education because their citizenry thinks its a top priority.

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  7. Jan 8

    And while we are on the subject of Finland. Finnish schools do give homework to students and they do have subject based 'traditional' education.

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  8. Jan 8

    A more accurate headline would have been: "New Finnish PM mused about maybe decreasing work hours to EITHER 6-hours/day OR 4 days/week in an informal panel 6 months ago when she wasn't the PM".

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  9. Jan 8

    So, you remember the news making rounds about the Finnish PM introducing 4 day/week and 6-hour/day work week. It was mostly fake news:

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  10. 21 Dec 2019

    We owe a lot of our success & all of our founding to your class. Thought long way to go still but we owe you Tap. It’s an honor to be able to bring back the class. Also is our guiding star.

    My former boss is teaching my former class with funding from my former students! congrats to
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  11. 18 Dec 2019

    “Designers, Good Designers, And Great Designers” by ⁦⁩ This is a good one!

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  12. 16 Dec 2019

    The most common startup advice is to talk to your users but no one teaches how to ask questions, interpret the interview and qualitative data.

    On a medium timeline I believe solid training in mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) will become a highly valued skill as big data starts to realize how much and how quickly you can learn things by first simply talking to the people you are studying.
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  13. 10 Dec 2019

    Cheers to that.

    Hot damn! “At over the past two years, the number of women graduating with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) majors has increased by 47%, and the number of minority students following same path has increased by 43%.”
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  14. 2 Dec 2019

    The hippies are all gone and now everyone is busy making paper so they can survive and get ahead. This almost dystopian city we all love to hate. So i guess what I am saying is: don’t hate, appreciate.

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  15. 30 Nov 2019

    Alexander Hamilton founded Society for Establishing Manufacturing that rewarded people who brought in trade secrets from England who were rapidly innovating new ways of making fabric. British navy was responsible to make sure none of these experts left. True battle for the minds.

    Invention was so important to the United States one of the first things the new Congress did was create a system for patents. For some time Thomas Jefferson reviewed all patent applications personally. He granted one by Eli Whitney for a new contraption called the “Cotton Gin.”
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  16. 28 Nov 2019

    If you are interested in ethics of technology or future of work take time out of your thanksgiving holiday and read this mini-novella by .

    Thankful to introduce my new lead story, "Will the Future of Work Be Ethical?" one of the longest features TC has ever published. 6 mos to write this, but more like years of changing my own mind/heart/career to get to the place where I could.
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  17. 25 Nov 2019

    This might be the most important article has ever written.

    The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius:
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    13 Nov 2019

    Next Tuesday I will launch an interesting experiment to fund an English book on Finnish saunaan design secrets! Check out the campaign in advance:

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  19. 14 Nov 2019

    You create your reality.

    “Desire is suffering.”
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  20. 13 Nov 2019

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