Futurepreneurs

Nistha Tripathi

is on a mission to make business books interesting to read. A bestselling startup author, her last book, No Shortcuts, featured stories of 15 successful indian entrepreneurs because she was tired of turning to Silicon Valley books for advice on building startups in India.

Previously, an engineer from the University of Illinois and a MBA dropout from new York University, Nistha worked on Wall street and with a few fast-growing startups in Manhattan, where she developed a taste for business strategy. she organized nYU stern’s first entrepreneurship summit that featured the likes of Seth Godin and Chris Dixon. after returning to India, Nistha founded India’s leading career consulting community— scholar strategy. it has helped 600+ applicants get into top MS and MBA programmes in the Us, including MiT, Harvard and Stanford. as of today, she is an active career coach (certified with NeuroLeadership institute, USA), an acclaimed author and a prolific speaker. she has given talks at leading startup events and college startup fests.

With 1,00,000+ followers and more than 12 million views on her content across Quora, Linkedin and instagram, nistha actively writes on entrepreneurship, career advice and pursuing one’s passion. Her articles have appeared on Entrepreneur, Times, DailyO, DNA, Tribune and other leading media outlets.

Apart from running Scholar Strategy, she conducts aspirational talks for students and writing workshops for bloggers. Read more about her here.

Varun Aggarwal

is an MIT alumnus, wears multiple hats. He successfully built and sold Aspiring Minds, India's largest job skills testing company. He is an active AI researcher and product developer who built the world's first and only AI based programming test and motor skills test. He has invested in multiple deeptech, social and women-founder startups.

He is passionate about developing India’s science and technology ecosystem. He wrote the only data-based book examining India’s research ecosystem (Sage Publishing). He founded India’s largest festival of science, which brings scientists and industry from across the world on a single platform. He recently co-founded, FAST, India (Foundation to Advance Science and Technology), to work closely with institutions and government, to catalyze a new culture of inventions and discoveries in the country.

He has been writing poems since he was in Grade tenth. He wrote a fiction book inspired by Animal Farm, which tells the story of the impact of the internet and AI on our society. Recently, there has been an explosion in the number of new books he is working on - watch out for them.