Miki Agrawal
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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All of our ideas that we do, it really stems from, there's a problem, let's solve it, instead of complain about it. Our Indian father always said, create, don't complain. You know, in a world of like so many complainers and sort of backseat drivers and trolls. Talk, talk, talk, and no action. Yeah, for us, it's like, okay, there's a problem, let's solve it.
I just feel like we always like to solve problems that start with our problems in our own lives. And then then we kind of extrapolate. Is it is it is it a problem for a lot of people? It's a three question. What sucks in my world? Does it suck for a lot of people? Can we be passionate about this for a really long time?
one in three americans have zero friends to confide in this number has tripled in the last 30 years and turns out having poor social connections is as harmful to your physical health as being an alcoholic and twice as harmful as obesity or smoking 15 cigarettes per day so loneliness is really prevalent amongst entrepreneurs amongst i mean one in three americans in general and and i think we've become more lonely as we've begin continue to swipe
Sure. So we were defending our three-legged race championship title, our family barbecue. It's called Agripalooza. And it was a 10-year title that we were the reigning champions of. It's like egg toss and three-legged race are these two kind of like tentpole events at our annual Agripalooza. Our last name is Agrawal, so Agripalooza. It was, you know, competitive, everything competitive.
So we were tied to each other in a three-legged race. And so then, of course, we, like, you know, ready, set, go. And then we were running together, tied to each other. In the middle of the race, Radha started her period. And then, like, she started bleeding into my sock. And then we started, like, sprinting through the finish line in first place, obviously. And then we sprinted, we kept going.
We kept going up the stairs to our family room bathroom so she can change out her bathing suit bottoms and wash them out. And as she was washing out the blood from bathing suit bottoms is when we had the idea. Like, oh my God, it would be amazing. It would be amazing to create a pair of underwear that never leak, that never stain, that supported you on every day of the month.
Like the three-legged race. Then we talked to her older sister, Yuri, who's a surgeon. And she was like, we were like, all of your underwear are stained brown. Like, why? She's like, well, in the middle of an operation, you can't be like, yo, face while you're cut open. Let me just go and change my tampon while you're, you know, you have to bleed through.
If you're in the middle of a soccer game, you can't be like ref.
Can you stop the game? I got to go change my tampon.
Yeah. There's so many moments. And so in that moment. Actually, what was interesting about it was the blood came right off my bathing suit bottom. And I was like, oh, this is an interesting moment of material that the blood can actually come off. But it's not breathable. Bathing suit bottoms, you can't wear them as underwear because it's not that your vagina can't breathe.
So you spent like four years really developing the technology. Exactly.
We're both heavy bleeders, you know? And I just think that we've had always, and we continue to this day, every month it's like, it's my first time. I'm like, oh shit, my period, you know? And so I just feel like we always like to solve problems that start with our problems in our own lives. And then we kind of extrapolate, is it a problem for a lot of people?
And are we passionate about this topic? Those are the three sort of starting points for any project that we start.
What sucks in my world? Does it suck for a lot of people? Can we be passionate about this for a really long time?
Obviously, we've had multiple businesses across the board, from our restaurants, you know, which are still open for almost 19 years, called Wild, in New York City, to building Super Sprouts, which is, you know, nutrition education for children. to, you know, Things, and Tushy, Daybreaker, and now Hero. It just, and of course, like, all the... And Belong Center.
And Belong Center, and Wow It's Now, and all the projects. You know, it's always been, like, I think for each other, like, the biggest cheerleaders for each other. It's like, ooh, I love that idea. Like, oh, my God, 100%, I'm going. Like, it'll be the best thing ever, you know? And I think it's always, like, a boom spiral of, like, an upward spiral of energy of, like,
can-do-ness because we have like each other's wind behind each other in that way. Yeah, I mean, I think also just when I think of having a friend that's always there for you to support you and to cheerlead your ideas. And challenge you. And challenge you. We definitely are two type A, you know, matriarchs.
And so, you know, I think it's one of those things where we, you know, don't mince our words with each other. So we're able to both be direct in our feedback and also be the ultimate cheerleaders for one another. You know, it's like her win is my win. And my win is her win.
And so there's no sort of like, oh, you know, you have more of a win than I. It's like sort of like no one can tell us apart. So it doesn't even matter. It's just like, oh my God, Daybreaker changed my life. And I'm like, great. Now I'm like at this point.
People are like, Tushy, I have a hundred of them in all my houses. And I'm like, it's my sister, but yeah, I'm an investor. Yeah, exactly. We invest in each other's companies. So I'm a lead investor in Hero Technologies, for example. And I'm like the number one ticket purchaser at Daybreaker. Her and Erwin Valencia. Love you, Erwin. I'm coming after you.
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