“Dad, do not publish anything yet”, Natasha sternly told me.
“Why not?”, I asked
“Because it has not hit the stands yet”.

That was a week back.

What she had given me a few minutes previously was the soon to be released copy of the Inc Magazine. This is the annual one where they feature the top companies in the world (by growth etc etc).

As both of us settled down at the Starbucks over a couple of cups of coffee (strictly speaking some coffee for me and some pink looking drink that I am sure Starbucks had given a fancy name to charge five dollars for her), I started leafing thru the magazine.

Of course, the piece de jure was the one about the “State of the CEO” written by her and another editor (also called Natasha). I read it up word for word. It was interesting to find that the portion they had highlighted was about the health problems of entrepreneur CEOs.

I was so excited reading about the article written by her that I forgot to pay attention to the actual details of the companies. Later, I found out that the company topping the Financial Services growth list is Yieldstreet – founded by none other than my friend and the entrepreneur with the Midas touch – Milind Mehere!

Niki’s stint at Brown over… we begin our three day journey over 1,200 miles and 12 states starting from Boston, MA to Milton GA. On our way back, we will take the route by the Appalachians..

Lunch break somewhere in Virginia, Day 2.

One has flown 20,000 miles across the world and the other has been in 8 flights, 20 nights in a hotel and driven for over 2,000 miles.

And that is just in the last 3 weeks.

Another 1,200 miles of driving left for this weekend.

First week – lunch in New Jersey. Second week – breakfast in New York. Third week – dinner in Michigan!!

I do not get to see her for months at end at times. (Usually Sharmila is the one that visits Natasha in New York). And then in two weeks, I get to see her twice!! Lunch last Saturday. Breakfast this Saturday!!

Erin recently pointed me to a New York Times article that talked about how hard work and discipline leads girls to beat boys in school and the same thing leads them to fall behind in office. (If any of you care – here is the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/sunday/girls-school-confidence.amp.html)

I was reading some more follow up articles online when I ran into this particular one in Inc. Magazine. (https://www.inc.com/natasha-roy/tamara-mellon-jimmy-choo-company-culture.html?cid=hmsub1)

And recognized the editor immediately!! I know her!!

[Tagging Natasha]