#DosaWithMouli

What an amazing start to this Wednesday. #dosaWithMouli with Snigdha Singh, our new CHRO at Tata Digital. Such a delight to share a meal with an amazing storyteller. We stuck similar chords at so many levels. Rich conversation ranging from storytelling (of course), to Millets (she was with Tata Consumer Products before), culture, Startups, to efficiency, networking, people, and so much more in between. So much to learn from you. Thanks for spending time Snigdha.

Nikhil Jois now has the infamous distinction of having the first late night #dosawithmouli. Free ranging conversation about general random stuff that friends who have known each other for 15+ years talk about. We met at #TheProductFolks #BitsAndAtoms event in the evening and made sudden plans to do DVG benne dosa for dinner. Lovely catching up as always Jois.

Lovely catching up with Pritesh Jain. This has been pending for a long long while. Great conversations ranging from early stage startups, founders, ops, customer support, startups during covid, consulting vs startups, agency, Tata Neu, loyalty and a lot more. #dosawithMouli at IDC Kitchen HSR.

It has officially now become 'a thing'. Chirag Batra and Gautam Gauba, PMs from our Mumbai office were visiting for some brainstorming discussions. So it was #dosaWithMouli this fine Wednesday morning. Lovely conversation ranging from MTR dose and vade to Mumbai to Bangalore, product management, brand loyalty, UX delights, and a whole lot more. Thanks Akash Morey and Krishnakumar Manibharathi for joining too.

Super fun #dosawithMouli with Navleen Bhatia, who was visiting the Bangalore office. Interesting conversation ranging from dosa (obviously) to talent to AI to Bangalore to food (obviously) to my serendipitious entry into product management, and much much more. Thanks for spending the time Navleen. MTR HSR is becoming more of my place of choice because of proximity to work.

This Friday thing is becoming a habit. Great #dosawithmouli session with Srijit Sengupta. Wide ranging conversation spanning fraud detection systems, AI (of course), his gig at Myntra (where he worked on revamping the 'returns' processes), Bangalore, how his name can be made a Malayali name by just adding a 'h', traffic, NGV, and so much more. Brahma Cafe, HSR Layout. Thanks for taking the time Srijit. and thanks Ansuman for connecting us.

Good food. Great conversations. Amazing company. Simple recipe for getting folks together. So, obviously, when Akshita Rastogi and Ashish Chhabra were visiting our Bangalore office for some meetings/discussions, some of us dosa fans had to take them out to MTR for a dosa breakfast. A lovely time was had. I got to know of many things about the team that I had not known earlier. Thank you Ayush Sharma, Aniruddha Mitra, Arvind Sethia, Hrushikesh Joshi for braving the Wednesday traffic and joining us.

I have known @ultimate_shyam for a while now, first mentoring him in Microsoft, and then hiring him into Yupp and working super closely with him; but never did a proper #dosaWithMouli with him. So when he pinged me and wanted to chat up with me on some stuff, jumped on it. Super interesting conversation ranging from cortados, to AI PMs, to Claude Design, through how different orgs are reacting to AIs, to forward deployed PMs/Engs, to wedding planners, Byadgi, and all the way to (of course) second brain stuff with Obsidian. Thanks for taking the time da Shyam. Lovely catching up as always. Also - this is a cross-over episode. Shyam has also started meeting up people for coffee focusing on unstructured conversations. :-)

Awesome catching up with Amit Patil. Recalled the amazing times at Microsoft where he was my design partner. Super wide ranging conversation from AI in enterprises, to humans in the loop, to junior folks over indexing on AI to many more things. Missed taking the #dosawithmouli photo. But it's ok. Like I always say - it's the company and the conversation that counts. Thanks for taking the time Amit.

Awesome catching up with Gaurav Mathur. I find it super refreshing and fun talking with design folks. Fun conversation over hatti kaapi at ETV. Thanks for taking the time man. #coffeewithMouli #dosawithMouli

Always fun catching up with @jasnoorgill. #ThindiWithMouli #dosawithMouli

Met up with Bhasker "Bosky" Kode for lunch. Well you see, Dosa is such a versatile dish, you can do #dosaWithMouli for lunch, evening snack, dinner as well (and not just breakfast :-)) Fascinating conversation with Bosky about his career trajectory from his early 2-room startup…

Amazing start to #dosaWithMouli for 2026, this bright sunny Tuesday morning - breakfast with Karthik S A. His firm (QL Partners) handles our on-demand legal requirements, and we hit it off at a personal level a few months ago in a call that we were having. We had a lot of common…

Met up with @SudipDutta for #dosaWithMouli. Met after almost 3 yrs of punting and postponing. And what a joyous conversation it was. Conversation that meandered around our career arcs, walkability of Bangalore, education, money, cost of convenience/peace of mind, public…

My #dosaWithMouli roundup for 2025. Lesser number of meet-ups this year (15) than 2024 - but then, I did not step out of home for 2.5 months because of my surgery. But what a blast. Product builders. HR folks. Colleagues. Design Leaders. Folks in the VC ecosystem. So many…

Messi is in India. And how could I not ... #dosaWithMouli

Amazing start to Thursday. Met up for breakfast at MTR (Indiranagar) with Lakshya M., who is visiting Yupp Bangalore office this week. Free flowing and wide-ranging conversation involving food, cooking, impact of AIs in various fields, design and AI, taste, city and infra planning, aviation, careers, social media distraction, and so much more. #dosaWithMouli

Sat morning well spent #dosaWithMouli with the one and only @jdallcaps. This meeting has been long pending, and we made it happen today. Rich conversation from my story, to his fantastic story (his trysts with typography, airport design (I am sure you did not know that!!), resort…

Amazing start to the week. #dosaWithMouli with @rnikhilcom at The Filter Coffee, Koramangala. His story is amazing - winding from his school, college days, to Flipkart, to becoming a professional poker player, to PayTM poker, to getting into AI evals, to his current stint at…

Sunday mornings with Tamil type Dosa at The Filter Coffee (Koramangala). But the food was not the only thing. This guy Parul Raj Lodha 'PRL' made the food irrelevant. Rich conversation flowed from his choice of Engineering to Design to Program Management to Night shifts at TCS, and how he managed to get into something new just by showing up. Moving between teams in TCS, to getting admits into RPI, to landing in the bay area, getting hired by a startup, his return to India, and his journey through autoninja, razorpay, and to now tinkering to see what next. #dosaWithMouli

Stoked to find a decent dosa place near office where I can now have my #dosaWithMouli. Thanks @pratik_kr2008 for showing me this and having dosa with me today. Yes, they Bangalore and Chennai style dosa on the menu. I obviously had the Bangalore type and Pratik had Chennai style.…

There are a few rare times when I do two #dosaWithMouli meetups on consecutive days, and this week was one such. What an amazing conversation over Dosa with @nandiniv. We have been connected since forever on twitter (what some of us fondly call OG twitter). Lots of common…

Amazing start to the week. This #DosaWithMouli with @sindhicrawford has been pending for a long while. Awesome conversation that ranged from Anushka's very wide educational background from media to fashion, her stints with Trent, and of course we spoke a lot about work culture,…

Caught up @lkeshre for breakfast. Not quite #dosaWithMouli but the conversation and company compensated. We go back quite a bit when @_groww was just starting. We were cabin neighbours when I was building Travenues. Super interesting conversation about product challenges,…

Amazing Saturday morning #dosaWithMouli meet-up with Bharadwaaj Rajan (BD) @Bharadwaaj_BD . So much fun. Conversation that ranged all the way from his stereotypical engineering college choice, career arc, to Mu-Sigma's very futuristic bets (like the Chief of Staff role that he…

Met up with @girdharspeaks for #dosaWithMouli at Umesh Refreshments, Indiranagar. Fascinating conversation about his journey from an electronics engineer to his MBA, and then to doing BD for Oyo, and then his PM stints, and now doing freelance Product Management (yep…

Wonderful saturday morning #dosaWithMouli with Vetri Venthan. Been planning this for a long time. Long winding conversation all the way from his childhood years (another Ashoknagar Chennai alumni ;-)) to his IIM-A days (which he claims were the best days of his life!), to a super…

There is a positive side to everything, and if there is one advantage that I have recently discovered about working in a tech park on Outer Ring Road, is that this is closer to people living in Bellandur / Whitefield area. Morning breakfast scenes with @VaibhaviPai15 at A2B, ETV. Engaging conversation ranging from our earlier stint at MS, her startup venture, intensity of work in startups, agility, AI, future views, to vadakari and filter coffee at Hatti Kaapi. Friday morning well begun. #dosaWithMouli

Amazing Friday morning #dosaWithMouli with @pruthvi_p . We have worked in the same place thrice before - Stayzilla, Travenues, and Microsoft. Free ranging conversation ranging from the small population of Ireland (where he works now), to frontend development, fun times at…

2024 was a blast. #dosaWithMouli enabled me to meet many new people, catch up with old friends, and has kind of become my thing. My 'I have arrived moment' was when someone in SF airport came up to me and mentioned they knew me because of #dosaWithMouli. Thank you Suri Raman,…

And the last #dosaWithMouli of 2024 was with Garima at Vedam Sarjapur. Garima was on my team at MS before I left and in the one year we had worked together, she had left an impact on me. Super interesting conversation around AI, culture dynamics, cross-geographic working…

Met up with Anuroop Krishnan over breakfast at MTR, HSR. What a blast. Conversation ranging from our amazing time together at Stayzilla, culture, DEI, marketing, life, product, people, AI, wildlife photography, Mumbai, Singapore, design, his creative process, and everything between. #dosaWithMouli

Awesome catching up with Tejas Kinger. Not often do you have someone who lives close to Bellandur and can come to office food court. Conversation ranged from his channel partner consulting (very cool stuff!), mechanics of selling SaaS, to AI and its impact in education/research, to his school days. #dosaWithMouli at "The Darshini" at the ETV food court.

Back to picking startup folks and founders minds. Super interesting conversation with @rajamohantweets ranging between growth, early users, Ai SaaS and everything in between. Thanks for all the fundas man and taking the time. #dosaWithMouli at MTR HSR.

Today morning's #dosaWithMouli was a double dhamaka. Two friends whom I have been dabbling with on twitter and on #ThindiCapital whatsapp groups. Had originally planned to meet up with @roshanonline but he came with a super surprise @DeePakao. Fascinating conversation about their…

Fascinating start to the day- #dosaWithMouli with @taapsiturvy who is a cultural anthropologist who is building an AI product for making user research in a more digestible accessible manner. We had bumped into each other at DesignUp Conference a few weeks back and we found out…

You gotta optimise visits to Whitefield. Early morning breakfast with Prakash Shanbhag. We worked together at Synopsys a long time ago. He went on to Google and Disney Hotstar and is now trying his first entrepreneurial venture. Lovely conversation from old Synopsys times, to startups, GTM, Product Market fit, the insurance/healthcare industry, and everything in between. #dosaWithMouli

Fascinating Friday morning meetup with indie micro-app builder Vatsal Sanghvi at Vedam, Sarjapur Road. Wide ranging conversation from his biology major at BITS to investment banking, his Flipkart stints, his itch to always keep building, his aha moment from @levelsio, building profitable consumer apps and flipping them, generative AI, family, his base in Gujarat and his remote team. Walked away super energized. #dosaWithMouli

Sometimes I am bantering and planning for a #dosaWithMouli meetup for a very long time, and it takes another in-person meeting to catalyze it. Dosa and hazelnut filter coffee at The Filter Coffee, Koramangala. Prashant Singh's fascinating career arc from teaching and programming to founding Shifu, his time working with Google and Paytm, community building (Mobile Mondays), and networking across the NCR tech ecosystem.

Met up with Gyan Chaudhary for breakfast. Took help from Gyan for filing my taxes this year, and that's how I got to know him. Free form conversation ranging from his interesting career path from being a CA to JPMC to doing finance for startups and his current gig at Mensa Brands, commute, Bangalore, markets, startups, US stocks, tax filing intricacies, and the startup ecosystem.

Caught up with @ansumanbehera for filter coffee and snacks after work. Super like minded conversation ranging from long years in the industry (and what we can easily sniff from a mile away), AI and what all will it render useless, differences between a startup and large enterprises, stakeholder management and its challenges, company culture, amazing time and learnings at Stayzilla with @pankaj (our common connection), to the future of engineering and impact of cursor/AI-powered-IDEs. What an amazing fun and refreshing conversation.

Had an awesome #dosaWithMouli with @Taruna2309 today. Free ranging conversation mostly revolving career choices, cultures, growth, competencies, her current work at LinkedIn, and everything in between. Lots of fun over a great masala dose of course. We have known each other for a…

Perfect drizzly morning for a #dosaWithMouli meet with @vinaykesari. This has been pending for a long long time. We have been connected and bantering on twitter for a very long time. First #dosaWithMouli meet up with a lawyer. Amazing conversation winding around our study and…

And of course, Indiranagar being Indiranagar, when we were stepping out, we bumped into @mister_whistler and @_svs_. Chatted briefly. I had met Mahesh a while back, but met SVS for the first time. Sire - we should meet up next time you are in town. 2/ #dosaWithMouli #Serendipity…

Saturday morning well spent. Started with #dosaWithMouli with none other than @_swanand. We have been connected for at least 10 years on twitter and on various WA groups. First time meeting. Free flowing conversation ranging from consulting getting a bad rep, to Bangalore and…

Another great Sunday morning. #dosaWithMouli with long time friend @aswinsamba. These were folks from my startup days, from whom I derived a lot of energy, from sharing our stories, and thereby deriving a sense of comfort and mutual confidence. Very grateful for these folks.…

Mid-week #dosaWithMouli meet-up. This has been one in the making for multiple years. @adityaprao and me have been connected for a long while, but he was in the US and I was in India. So it had to be manifested that he relocate back to India, and to Bangalore (where he grew up),…

My small trigger that warms people’s hearts is #dosaWithMouli. ❤️

Sunday morning #dosaWithMouli is always fun. But it’s even more fun with old friends. Amazing conversation about his work, devops, GenAI, GPU clusters, data centres, Bangalore, UAE, and a lot more. Thanks @cruisemaniac for making the hike all the way from Gottigere to HSR

Another Monday morning. Another awesome start to the week with #dosaWithMouli. Caught up with Giridhur (@irishdrug1511) over amazing dose, pongal, vade and filter coffee at Vedam, Sarjapur. Broad ranging conversation all the way from his IIT coaching / IIT days, to company…

Amazing Sunday morning #dosaWithMouli with @tyags6. Awesome conversation ranging from travel, life choices, eye opening times when we first travel abroad, writing, mentoring, Gaggan episode of Chefs Table, Bangkok, to commutes. Time flew by. And of course there was #dose, vade,…

A #dosaWithMouli meeting is one of the best things to do in the midst of high intensity work pressure times. Met up with @HiteshManwar . Hitesh used to be in my team back when I was in Outlook. He is now at Twillio doing some cool stuff. Wonderful morning banter wandering all…

After an amazing #dosaWithMouli breakfast Chennai edition, and a fun panel discussion in the afternoon organised by the awesome folks at @ecell_iitm, some more of us friends (old and new) got together for an super fun ice cream discussion. Super fun discussion with @VijayT1609,…

Amazing #dosaWithMouli session Chennai edition today morning. Wonderful conversation. Yummy dosaes. And filter coffee of course. Super diverse interesting group of folks from the Chennai ecosystem. @SunOfGan @giridharvc7 @Ashwinizer @aishashok14 @Vaidhi_R @sleepyhead148…

Fascinating start to this wednesday morning. Have always been a fan of Suri Raman, since my Outlook days. A Technical Fellow (TF) at Microsoft, with over 25+ years of experience, Raman is one of the most humble folks that I have ever worked with, and a joy to talk to. Passionate conversation ranging from why Outlook win32 is still called win32 (even after moving to 64 bit), importance of impact/outcome, his early years writing Outlook, life as a TF, and deep topics in how flexible calendars should be built.

Met up with Sailendra Kumar today morning for breakfast. Amazing conversation ranging from our time together at Goibibo, managing teams, stakeholder management, power of relationships, company cultures, expectations as you rise up the product leadership ladder, and everything in between. Always a pleasure catching up with this awesome guy.

August was three #dosaWithMouli meets, but each one was unmissable. Finally I met up with my close product team @Navnethan and Saraswathi for breakfast at Paakshala, before the @TheProductfolks conference. 15/

End of June had my first #dosaWithMouli in Chennai with long time friend @cruisemaniac. He is one of those true blue sys ad kinda devops guys with whom I enjoy old school tech convos with. 11/

May was a group #dosaWithMouli at Hyderabad alongside the dynamic @MotwaniSuhas of @TheProductfolks. A gang of very interesting Product folks of Hyd met up at Chutneys. @shraone_k @jayanth_s_iyer @gauravlakhani @reachaditya 8/

Awesome catching up with @RAnirud over mini tiffin at MTR. Brilliant conversations that spanned fintech to engineers as PMs to product thinking and everything in between. I had been informally mentoring Anirudh over quite some time and it’s a joy talking to him. #dosaWithMouli

Finally caught up with @madnavin for #dosaWithMouli. Whattay conversation from his journey at @InMobi to culture, awesome work anecdotes (including his team taking adv of his name with @NaveenTewari , his BD, growth, and customer journeys. We spoke about his love for travel,…

Caught up Shraddha (colleague at work) for #dosaWithMouli today. At Vedam Sarjapur Road. Super impressed with the clean design and of course the spotless open kitchen. Lovely pudi and pudi masala was had. Drenched with ghee of course but oh well, it’s an indulgence.

Awesome conversation with @HamadJowher. We spoke about his early years; RTI and filing a case;of working on mini-startups during his eng;his medical startup days;going from tech to business; his demand PM days. Whattay career arc. Loved the convo Hamad. #dosaWithMouli

Amazing conversation with @hvpandya. This has been long time pending. We spoke about power of meetups, startup war stories, radical candor/feedback, learnings, closeness to craft, @theproductfolks and so much more. So Much comfort builds up when you talk over food. #dosawithMouli

Lovely conversation. Thanks so much @ojasvibhatia13 and @Headstarters for hosting me. We spoke about building 0->1, challenges in large enterprises, travenues and aviation, and of course #dosaWithMouli :-)

Hearty breakfast with team before the @TheProductfolks #Unconference event. Light hearted conversation because all the meaty convos happen at work anyway 😅. #dosaWithMouli

Dosa meet-up with the Queen of the Samosa Business - @DikshaPande3 ; and whattay an amazing convo it was. From her hotel/hospitality days at Oberoi, to innovation at Pizza Hut, to @Samosa_Party , and her quest to stop people looking down on our local foods. #dosaWithMouli 1/2

Awesome catching up with @Prnv_B over dosai, Sambar vadai and brilliant hazelnut filter coffee at #thefiltercoffee. Wide ranging convo abt the interesting work (GTM, strategy) at @getpostman, company culture, developer tools, hybrid work and everything in between. #dosaWithMouli

Was awesome catching up with Amit Singh . Fun convo ranging from his time in Bangalore, recent infra developments in Hyderabad, his industrial design exp, user persona differences between us and our parents gen, fun (earlier) Microsoft stints including MS Lens .. #dosaWithMouli

Another of those meetings that has been long pending. Awesome conversation with @narayananh (NH) ranging from his startup consulting work, food and sleep schedules, work and culture, Palakkad and Kumbakonam, to Hindi and it’s nuances that I don’t understand. #dosaWithMouli

Fantastic catching up with THE cruise - @cruisemaniac. Always a pleasure catching up with you man. Amazing conversations about career conviction, life in Abu Dhabi, Devops stories to good old times. What an amazing catch up. #ChaatOverChat #ChaatIsTheNewDosa #DosaWithMouli 😋😉

Awesome meeting up with @2shar. Free ranging conversation over dosa. Career arcs are amazing stories to hear and Tushar has an awesome one. We spoke about industry verticals, his writing gigs, life around Hosa Road, career forks and a lot more. #dosaWithMouli

Another day. Another fantastic catchup over dosa. @harishv and me go back quite a while - around 12-13 yrs back. He was rocking Microsoft sales at that time. We met at one of the MVP summits. Since then he has pivoted to a PM leader. Awesome convo. #dosaWithMouli

Amazing set of people. Awesome conversations. Engaging stories. Hopefully new relationships formed. #dosaWithMouli was at Hyderabad today. Thanks folks for getting yourself out here on a Sunday early morning. 1/

This week has been good. Second bkfst meetup. Was amazing meeting up with college mate @JaysRamblings. We met after 25 years. So many stories shared. Old and new. Microsoft sales. Product. Singapore. Education system there. 1.5 hours flew by like 15 minutes. #dosaWithMouli

Lovely breakfast/amazing convo with Ram. We used to work together back in 2012. He was visiting BLR (Works in Dublin). You can see how his eyes lit up after seeing a dharshini dose after multiple years. #dosaWithMouli

Well met with @amuldotexe. Talking with this guy is therapy. Conversation ranged from being content, gratitude, cool stuff that he is building at his employer, logic and reasoning, raising next gen kids to anything else left under the sun :-) #dosaWithMouli #iykwim ;-)

Caught up with @ajayyprakash for breakfast today morning. We had worked together at Stayzilla before. Free ranging conversation from his unique career arc . PM quirks in different companies, Stayzilla stories, innovation to the importance of talking to customers. #dosaWithMouli

What an amazing morning. Dosa with some lovely designer folks from the Outlook team. Tagging @sargampr - the only one who I follow on twitter. (Sargam - tag others who are on here). Davanagere Benne Dosa and Raghavendra Tiffins. HSR. #DosaWithMouli

Fantastic morning spent with @pruthvi_p, reminiscing old times at Stayzilla and Travenues. The latter stories are so close to the heart that sometimes some of us even choke up talking about those good times. #dosaWithMouli #memories

Butter masale (self) and Onion Rava (wife’s favourite). Sukh sagar. Well, where else. Comfort food. #dosaWithMouli #dosaWithFamily

A BBA grad who went to design. An engineer who went on to do people ops. And a VLSI CAD Engineer who went to do PM in travel startups. Oh man. This conversation was super fun. #dosaWithMouli 1/2

Lovely catching up with Sameer today. Change of template. Met at Arogya Aahar today instead of Sukh Sagar. :-) #wellmet #dosawithMouli

Lovely conversation with the ever smiling Abhiram. ML engineering, his career path, people relationships, South Bangalore, dosa quality consistency, Microsoft, and much more. Awesome dosas were of course had. #dosawithMouli

Met up with @K2_181 for dosa. Super exciting conversation ranging from his @FyleHQ (his expense management startup), to eating places in Bangalore to remote/hybrid working. Super energised. Thanks for hiking all the way from Bellandur man. #dosawithMouli

Super awesome breakfast conversation with @jiteshluthra. Fun convo ranging from travel, airplanes, listening, connecting people, startups and more. #dosaWithMouli

Lovely meeting up with @mister_whistler. Fun free ranging conversation. And of course lovely dosa was had. #DosaWithMouli

Fantastic breakfast meeting with @nikhiljoisr - the OG connector. Freewheeling chat about his current startup, enterprise software, our journeys and how life events influenced it, connecting the dots, investing, what is “enough”. Morning well spent. #dosaWithMouli

Finally met ⁦@Venknar⁩ after working together for more than a year. #wellmet #dosaWithMouli #sukhSagar