Prior to Bee, Vinay spent five years at McKinsey & Company, where he advised leaders of public sector organizations and US banks on executing large-scale IT modernization programs. Vinay is a faculty member at both NYU Stern School of Business and Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, where he has taught courses on Enterprise Strategy, Game Theory, and Data Visualization. Vinay holds a J.D. and M.B.A from NYU, and a B.A. with honors in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is happily married and lives in Brooklyn.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Josh Reich & Shamir Karkal founders of Simple
Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Deciding on what the business was actually going to be, and for me, I worked with 2 co founders and we had a pretty clear sense of the fact that we wanted to work together but we didn’t really have any sense of what we wanted to build early on”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity book by David Allen
Favourite Quote:
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work” Einstein
Recommended Online Resources:
News Aggregators
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Write down your ideas and take it one day at a time”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” Claude Lévi-Strauss
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