Tushar Vashisht is the Co-founder and CEO of HealthifyMe, a digital health and wellness company that provides smart meal plans personalized by expert nutritionists and customized workout plans with certified fitness coaches. The company has raised just over $100M from Khosla Ventures, Chiratae Ventures, Athera Venture Partners, Blume Ventures among several others. Vashisht began his career on Wall Street at BlackRock. He later joined Deutsche Bank as a corporate finance analyst in San Francisco before moving to Singapore. In 2009, he joined the Aadhaar project headed by Nandan Nilekani, and in 2012 he co-founded HealthifyMe with Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy. Episode Notes: 1. Introduction (2:50) 2. What led Tushar to found HealthifyMe (4:05) 3. How did Tushar and his team validate their HealhtifyMe thesis? (8:40) 4. How do you find early adopters and solicit feedback as founders? (13:48) 5. How does the life of a founder change when they raise capital (22:05) 6. The pandemic's impact on HealthifyMe as a company (28:55) 7. Which is more difficult: building in the early stages or empowering leaders within an organization? (36:47) 8. Tushar’s frameworks for decision making (39:55) 9. Tushar's advice to his younger self (44:52) . . . Bonus: Ud ja Re by Tushar Vashisht . . . Social Links: HealthifyMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HealthifyMe Tushar Vashisht on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tusharvashisht Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesi_vc Akash Bhat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhatvakash Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedesivc Akash Bhat on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bhatvakash