People & Stories I Admire

These are people I admire because of what they did, or the way their stories helped me take inspiration.

• Travis Kalanick — Building Uber from scratch; I really like his energy and attitude towards building.
• Napoleon Bonaparte, Chanakya & Subhas Chandra Bose — Napoleon’s strategic brilliance and ambition, Chanakya’s ruthless understanding of power and society, and Bose’s fierce independence and captivating leadership & mystery of disappearance.
• Nitish Singh & Krish Naik, Haris Ali (CodeWithHarry), and Tech with Tim (and a lot of other people on X & YT as well) — For my programming start, and learning AI, ML, and DL.
• Steve Jobs & Elon Musk — Their relentless approach to building products, obsession and willingness to pursue with difficult problems.
• Mark Zuckerberg — His story of building Facebook from a college project into a global company.
• Daniel Ek & Martin Lorentzon — Their story of building Spotify.
• Jack Ma & Ray Kroc — Their persistence despite repeated failure and setbacks.
• Richard Feynman, Abhijit Chavda & Lex Fridman — Feynman's approach to learning from first principles, and Chavda & Lex's curiosity, deep inquiry, and tendency to think in multiple dimensions.
• MS Dhoni — His journey from ticket collector to cricket captain.
• Chandra Mohan Jain (OSHO) & Sandeep Maheshwari — Osho's uniquely unconventional philosophy, and Sandeep's teachings which have genuinely helped me.