About me
The world, to me, is a never-ending chain of connections. I feel it through music. I see it through colours. I see it in the way people move together, in the way systems emerge, and in the invisible forces that shape how things unfold around us. I've always believed that with enough focus and energy, you can reach into that web of connections and change the very fabric of how things evolve.
I have a deep love for design, and an almost compulsive curiosity for how things work. I like breaking systems into smaller parts, understanding what each piece does, putting them back together, and seeing how everything connects. Inevitably, that curiosity led me to a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
So far in this lifetime, I've been fortunate enough to build Three companies2018 · HydropIndia's first dedicated water marketplace, probably the first to trade in greywater and rainwater. Sold in 2022.2022 · AtlantisBuilt technology that helped large numbers of people coordinate across shared goals, including India's first blockchain-powered peer-to-peer water network with Mercy Corps Ventures.2026 · KordnReimagining coordination in the age of intelligent autonomy.. I've also spent twelve thousand hours playing the best video game in the world: Dota 2. I learned an unreasonable amount from it. How to coordinate under stress. How to make the most of limited resources. How to read what is happening beyond what is immediately visible. When to fight. When to retreat. When to sacrifice and, above all, how to play for something larger than yourself.
Play, in general, has shaped me. I've always preferred team sports to solo ones. There is something poetic about watching human beings move, think and work as one. I got to experience that deeply in my younger years playing semi-professional football, and later, in a very different form, through the companies I built.
The other side of this fascination with systems has always been observation. As a child, I was obsessed with deduction. It started with Sherlock Holmes, the idea that if you looked closely enough, there were patterns everywhere. Motives, clues, structures, relationships. Things hiding in plain sight.
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy fiction, with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings sitting firmly at the top. Tolkien will forever remain, in my mind, the undisputed champion of world-building. His ability to imagine an entire world.. its histories, rules, cultures, languages, second to none.
There are a handful of other humans whose influence on me is difficult to put into words. As a boy, Steven Gerrard taught me time and again what leadership is. As a young adult, Jürgen Klopp taught me about people, belief, and what becomes possible when a group begins to see itself as more than the sum of its parts. And lastly Buckminster Fuller fundamentally changed the way I see the world.
Through his work, I began to understand humanity itself as a system. One that is made of resources, incentives, technologies, constraints, relationships and choices. He taught me to look beyond the object in front of me and ask what larger system it belonged to.
In hindsight it makes sense why I spent the last decade building Three companies2018 · HydropIndia's first dedicated water marketplace, probably the first to trade in greywater and rainwater. Sold in 2022.2022 · AtlantisBuilt technology that helped large numbers of people coordinate across shared goals, including India's first blockchain-powered peer-to-peer water network with Mercy Corps Ventures.2026 · KordnReimagining coordination in the age of intelligent autonomy.. Slightly different on the surface but deep down each one, in its own way, pulled me into the same problem: coordination failures.
How do people work together? How do information, resources and decisions move through a system?
Why do intelligent people, acting with good intentions, so often produce outcomes none of them wanted?
What happens when the connections between things fail? And what becomes possible when those connections begin to work better?
Each company moulded me, humbled me and reinvigorated me. Each gave me another small glimpse into how enormously complicated and enormously beautiful our interconnected world really is.
I still feel like I'm only beginning to understand it. These pages are a collection of things I've built, things I've learned, things I'm trying to understand, and connections I haven't quite figured out yet. A few slivers from a life of curiosity. Enjoy your stay.