Rajiv Vaishnav: Management by storytelling, writing, and weaving a carpet with spirituality, technology, and cinema

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In this episode, Rajiv Vaishnav shares the behind the scenes for his writing. Rajiv has been a stalwart in the Indian IT and Startup space. Rajiv has a talent to merge different domains into stories that connect.
His writing covers philosophy, startups, movies, personal matters, and more. Its profound and yet pratical.
You can read his work at his blog http://www.rajivvaishnav.com and follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivvaishnav
In this episode, we discuss how Rajiv weaves his carpet of words.
We cover the following in our conversation

• What writing means to him
• Management by storytelling
• Motivating startups through stories
• Writing for yourself
• Perspectives in writing
• Osho and his works
• Listening and how to create an idea bank
• How to write for the reader
  

About Rajiv
Investment Professional and Entrepreneur:
Rajiv is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Cornerstone Venture Partners Fund. (CSVP Fund) (www.csvpfund.com) invests primarily in early-growth (B2B SaaS models) : Consumer & Enterprise business solutions. We are building India’s frontier ‘Enterprise SaaS’ fund!
Rajiv has over 40+ years of solid experience in building brands, developing teams, expanding the market share and building organisations from grass root upwards. He is a Member of General Body and Governing Council of Maharashtra State Innovation Society. He is on the National Advisory Board of SME Chamber of India and the Honorary Executive Chairman of Start-ups council of India. Rajiv is an Independent Director on the Board of Lumina Datamatics Limited. He is the Hon. Member of Board of Corporate Advisors of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's K.M. Munshi Institute of Advanced Studies, Member Of The Board Of Advisors, Bhagwan Mahavir University, Surat, Hope Foundation & Research Centre, Pune. He was heading Ecosystem & Partnerships at RIL's GenNext Venture Fund and Jio-GenNext Innovation Hub.
Rajiv was an integral part of NASSCOM’s senior management team, initiated path breaking initiatives such as Cyber Safety with enforcement agencies, Emerging IT SMEs and Product companies, start-up incubators with State Govts under 10K Startup programme, evangelised Animation & Gaming sector, lead ISO Standards initiative to establish a Global BPO & Product Quality Framework Standards out of India.
He was the first Director & Co-founder, TiE Mumbai and played a key role in establishing the organization in India.
In 2000, Rajiv was invited by the U.S. Government to participate in their International Visitors program on ‘US Trade and World Market.’
Rajiv is a Science graduate from Mumbai University. He is passionate about music and literature. is blog: www.rajivvaishnav.com

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