"There's so many different versions of who you can be. I want to explore the broadness before I narrow back down. As long as I'm working on interesting things, I'll hopefully be able to structure my life in a way that I'm excited about for the next seven years."
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Varadh Jain is an angel investor and digital nomad whose currently doing one-off projects in different parts of the world.
Most recently, he spent three years as an early employee at Opendoor, helping to scale the company from 200 employees to nearly 1,500. Before that, he was on the founding team of Polymail (YC S16) and spent time at a seed fund in Los Angeles.
In this conversation, he and Asher discuss thinking about careers in seven year intervals, how Varadh got started with Angel investing, and being helpful to founders without necessarily providing advice.
[1:05]: Joining Polymail as Employee #1