Hard Fork | Special Series - ‘Women in Blockchain’ | Featuring Tarusha Mittal

Conversations with an “Operations Ninja”

“So please ask yourself: What would I do it I weren’t afraid? And then go do it!”
— Sheryl Sandberg

We think this statement clearly personifies the person we met in the 4th Episode of Hard Fork Specials — Women in Blockchain! Our guest in the 4th episode of this special series brings a substantial amount of fearlessness in her current avatar as an entrepreneur. Having founded and run multiple ventures — “some successful, some failed, some moderately successful”— in her entrepreneurial experience of more than a decade, she fairly demonstrates this trait when she candidly states that it is not a shame to fail — she’d rather wear failure as a badge of honor!

This is the character of a real path-breaker!

Introducing — Tarusha Mittal — Our Guest

Tarusha Mittal is an award-winning entrepreneur and a self-taught techie, who has been working in the field of technology for over a decade! She has been a mentor to women entrepreneurs and helps them in creating value for themselves. Tarusha is currently the COO and Co-founder of Ethx — which is a global cryptocurrency exchange and an integrated blockchain and crypto suite on a decentralized network; and Trsts.co — which provides blockchain-based documentation storage and shared computing power. For enterprises, they are creating a network wherein they can host their data and apps.

“Balance is key.”
— Tarusha Mittal (hear it on her podcast)

She is passionate about the blockchain and crypto world and also directs and hosts a podcast called — ‘Living on Blockchain’. She is working hard to create an inclusive fintech platform for users. She is a problem solver, a business mentor to early-stage women entrepreneurs, writer, self-taught techie, and a generalist.

Salient points of our conversation in Episode 4 of this Special Series

Our conversations with Tarusha had some interesting outcomes. Being a seasoned entrepreneur, she has had a lot of exposure in the driver's seat of an organization. She shared some amazing and valid points:

• The most critical problem faced by her as a COO has been talent acquisition and building the right team — finding the right people to do the job and in a given timeline.
• Founders usually take a DIY approach to everything in their start-up which could be a wrong step; it is good to delegate some processes to the right people.
• There are a lot of graduates who are not armed with the right skills for becoming employable.

• With blockchain technology, talent becomes much more pronounced, as this space is so much in its infancy that finding a person with the right skillsets becomes a challenge.
• Everybody wants to hop on to the blockchain bandwagon and get a tagline saying “I am a blockchain developer” — but they usually do not have the right credentials.
• Blockchain literacy to improve the employability of these graduates can be done by disseminating the right information to the masses which can be done by thought leaders in this field.
• The mass media has demonized the crypto space a lot and they do not do fact-checking and this created a negative perception about this space.
• The thought leaders need to go out of their way to create good content and dismantle this perception created by non-crypto media.
• We should also encourage companies which can create solutions which could become a part of our everyday life.

• People in India have a “scarcity mindset”.
• Movements need to inclusive and hence the voice of the women needs to be heard.
• Women bring a different kind of leadership to the table.
• We need all kinds of skilled people, talents and resources on to the blockchain and not only coders or developers.
• The onus on bringing inclusiveness lies on both, the men and the women
• We cannot be a “rebel without a cause” — bring pragmatism into the conversations.
• Women should take the plunge and be confident, they will meet the right people — they should be shameless in expressing and pursuing their dreams - the worsts that could happen is they will fail.
• Failure should not be a taboo — wear your failure as a badge of honor!

About Hard Fork 'Specials'

Hard Fork Specials is a shorter version of our talk show which we will undertake from time to time. These short and special series of episodes will highlight either a burning or important topic, a new technology, special set of people or something special to showcase the Crypto and Blockchain scene in India as well as overseas.

Women in Blockchain is the first of these specials.

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