Miki Agrawal
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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But I feel like 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.
For us, it's like, okay, there's a problem, let's solve it. And then let's have fun while doing it. Let's make it. And I think for us, our biggest core value is creativity. You know, and when I think of, you know, how we solve problems, not just sort of through spreadsheets or through kind of a binary experience, like black and white, it's always like, how can we add creativity?
How can we add color? How can we add story to everything we do? And I think that's what's been so fun. And it never feels like work. It always feels like
We've had it all, from investors saying, like, I'll give you money, but I'm in love with you, to investors squeezing my cheeks, patting me on the head, to lawyers holding me by the back of the neck and being like, you know, I'm gonna make you my New Year's resolution. You know, or like, you know, boys, let's go outside and talk business.
Like, it's like, you know, the old boys club, like, style. We've been around for 20 years. I mean, we've been entrepreneurs for 20 years. And, like, I would say that we were, you know, it's just in the last, what is it, 1988, that women were allowed to start their own business. Literally. Like, that's, I just read this online.
That in 1988 was the first time that women could open their own business and set up their own LLC. And... And just a wild statistic to understand that just in the last, you know, 25 years, have we been able to actually fundraise, build a business, and be autonomous female-owned business. I mean, it's crazy. So it's still, we're still on shaky ground.
And I think there's still, we live in such a deeply, deeply patriarchal condition system. And even women, I mean, the number one who voted for Trump, I mean, like, you know, it's just like we, it's like the idea of a woman leading is just so weird and strange.
And there's this power struggle, less and less, but there's still a power struggle that you see in the world between, you know, like, are there enough seats at the table for everyone? The answer is yes. Like, we believe that there's enough seats for everyone at the table, but a lot of people don't. And so we've had to, like,
you know to raise money people even after selling things like people like oh you got lucky you know so for tushy it was like started over so i've never raised a dollar in my life or never built anything in my life it was really interesting and the here was different because you know after having two companies under the belt and plus daybreaker every between the two of us like it got easier.
Exponential.
It was really intense. No one was gonna invest in an underwear company about periods, you know? No one is gonna invest in sort of anything women's product. This is back in, I mean, 10, 12 years ago. Now there's more women starting businesses than men. There's more women graduating college than men. So there's, you know, the tables and tides are turning.
But also there had been like, you look at so many female founders who achieved success have had some level of takedown. You know, I'm so grateful that Radha hasn't. You know, but like, you know, so many of us have gone through that because of the power dynamics that women experience. And like, I didn't expect to have an experience like that. You know, I was pregnant as well.
So it was sort of like... But then now, coming out on the other side of it, with the world changing, with things changing as a result of the work that so many of us have done, it's really powerful to now have these stories to tell. It's actually more interesting, creates more texture. It doesn't, you know, it's like, everything's great. It's just like, cool.
You know, versus like, ugh, like we suck the merit of life. Like we... You know, the famous quote, it's like, I want to skid to death's door sideways, not in a well-preserved body, loudly, thoroughly used up, loudly proclaiming, wow, what a life. You know, it's like just a used, like you've experienced everything, the highs, the lows, everything in between.
It's like you really juiced life in every way. And that's such a gift.
I mean, I think someone said it's like, what is the ingredients to maybe our careers? And I think for me, it's we trade on our enthusiasm. I think so many people are just like too cool for school or trying to be professional. I hate my job. Me too. There's a posturing that happens. And I think that for us, it's like, we still feel that deep zest for life and enthusiasm and everything.
It's like, oh my God, Alyssa, wow. Like your earrings are incredible. It's like every detail of life is just like a wow. And I feel like that enthusiasm mixed with, to me, like creativity and purpose. You know, when you bring those two together, then magic happens, right?
And I think it's like, if you're just kind of focused on purpose and execution and all of that without the enthusiasm, then life can get pretty tedious or life can get pretty stressful after a while. But if you stay and you really continue to find that enthusiasm, that joie de vivre, you know, that I think that both of us, I think, continue to inspire within each other,
I think that's really, to me, the best ingredients of what makes us continue to be inspired in our lives. I wrote a book called Disruptor. The book is really looking at the 13 major areas in your life, whether money, friendship, relationship, career, just all the areas in our life that people find like this is the way it is.
And it's like looking at the historical context of where these beliefs came to be and then really disrupting the one by one and finding agency in our own lives of how to how to do that. And the very first disruption, the very first common belief is you have to get serious as you grow up.
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