Swapnil Pawar

Entrepreneur, explorer, author, post-modernist, economist, childfree by choice, atheist, spiritual, left of centre liberal, decentralization expert

Books

Sun Sign

Leo

Three things people don’t know about you?

I like cats, I am an atheist, there are more than 5 names people call me by

What’s your greatest fear?

Being helpless in the face of danger to a loved one

What is your greatest achievement?

Turning from an opinionated youngster into a post-modern adult

High point of your life?

Getting a job with BCG in 2004 during campus interviews at IIMA

Low point of your life

Differences with co-founders in my first startup

Which living person do you most admire?

Barack Obama

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Ford Prefect

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Thanos

Who are your favorite authors?

Issac Asimov, Pu La Deshpande, Daniel Dennett, Douglas Adams

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

I Am A Strange Loop, Godel Escher Bach, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Asa Mi Asami, contingency irony and solidarity

Is there a book you love to reread?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

The Matrix, Black Hawk Down, Birdman, Court, Roshomon

One Superpower you wish you had?

Teleportation

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

He explored and then some more.

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

Childhood: 60s US, adolescent: plato's greece, adult life: denmark in 1920s in Copenhangen Institute, silver years: patliputra during gupta empire period

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Playing violin

Which book you wish you had written ?

General Theory of Employment Interest and Money

When and where do you write ?

Weekends at home office

Silence or music?

Silence

One phrase that you use most often?

That being said

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Google News - especially the sensational bits

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Just get started, with whatever you have - your work will make itself real soon enough.

Swapnil Pawar is a fintech entrepreneur working on bringing blockchain into the mainstream finance. Newrl - the public blockchain developed by Swapnil’s company - is a ‘Trust Network’ to enable
asset tokenization, trading, lending as well as a wide array of typical economic activities, in a decentralised and yet scalable manner. He has been a quantitative finance professional with an experience of over 17 years. He is a keen researcher of macroeconomic theory and its practical applications. His first book (Anatomy of Froth) focussed on the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. He writes regularly in various media on finance and economics.

Swapnil is a graduate from IIT Bombay and a post-graduate from IIM Ahmedabad. He lives with his wife, Chhavi, in Ahmedabad.



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