So Ah, at the moment I'm, ah senior Stanford studying computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence. But I also run a nonprofit organization called Motherhood bank dot com, which is essentially a platform where people in need off blood can search for blood donors in their region. Um, and this mainly in India. And, um, it has hundreds of thousands of registered donors and still did. To our knowledge, we've known ah, few hundreds of thousands of people, at least 250,000 people who received help from the organization. It's one of the most satisfying things that I've ever done. Ah, and am still doing so speaking of the experiences that led me to start something like that and let me to work on it or, um so this. So when I was in 10th grade, one of my very close friends on and I were walking back from school and, ah, he met with an accident, unfortunately, But, um, when be admitted into the hospital, we were trying to search for, um, someone who could donate blood, or maybe our first the blood banks for his operation. And when we're trying to do that we face like a lot of resistance from lot of, ah, blood banks in our region and also ah, it was either expensive where it was not available or when we were trying to find people to donate. There aren't many people who are off the same blood group or willing to donate and etcetera. So we were thinking, my friend is well and good right now we were able to find someone who's when it was able to donate beverages spray. But I got discovered me thinking that Hey, why is it, like, so difficult to find blood, especially when these are the days where you can literally buy an airplane online? You can literally find anything on buy anything online, and I felt like, ah, blood should also be something that's so accessible, especially event. Many people are having that need. So I went and started, like researching a bit about how many people is this like Ah, really need that other people also face? Or is this like a one off scenario? It turns out it's like a very, very big problem in India. Um, and throughout the world, Even so, I felt like Okay, maybe I could do my part by just starting like a website that could connect people who are generous enough to donate blood and up if enough people know about the site and and if people are on the side that I felt like this could be, ah very to eradicate the scarcity of blood in India. Um, so that's what made me start the organization. And, um, I was I was thinking I could. When I started up, I was thinking At least I could make a small impact, at least in my city but of God's grace. And with the help of mentors and all my war in tears, we were able to and all the generous people who are willing to donate blood. I think we were able to do Ah, very huge impact all across India. And this is definitely one of the largest trip plus treat. So a blood donor

Yeah. So initially when I started started with the project, it was just me and a few other people who are willing to help me. So while even before I started working on this, I used to run my own software consulting company back in India. And, um, that means I had access to a few fuse offered. All the person you are are willing to help me in their spare time. And ah, what we did was to start off it. It was it was just a simple website, but just just me working on it. Ah, and a few saw for developers from my company helping me. Um, but once we got that off, the more the crucial part is that you get more people to know about it and to get more people to register as but donors in it. Eso Initially, I was just trying Teoh reach out to people that I know and talk to them personally to get them to sign up and try to talk to hospitals in my city or my region to, um so ah, so that they know that there's this resource that's every will, in case they need anyone to donate blood. So So basically, I was trying to do that all by myself. Like a couple of friends are also try to help me. So the first few weeks, we're definitely because, like the tech tech isn't that complicated? Uh, that part was easy. I think the more the part that was more complicated was to get more people onto the site and get more people to know about the side. That was a little difficult. But then there was this one point where we try to think about what would be like a better strategy to get the word out. So we started focusing our college students so different, Um, because they're off age. And also they're usually more willing to act words causes and, like they're very, um, usually youth are more reactive to such things. Such causes. So we thought, get. And they're also situated in pockets off ah, in pockets. So each time all we have to do is just go to a university and 10 people, and we'll be able to get access to hundreds or thousands of people. So once we started doing that, Don expected thing was we started getting people who were willing to one here as well, other than just register as a donor. So as we kept getting more and more war in tears, who are interested, um, and warrant years comes coming. All the shapes inside this So the challenge offer, like after one point the town you was too managed. These numbers, like these numbers of swarms of volunteers, are properly and because because there weren't doing that means some people can only dedicate someone more tough times. Some people want to do more. Some people want to do less, and they're all over in different places, different colleges and different timings and all that. So figuring out proper vis to engage these forces and all that was, like, more challenging towards the next few months.It's mainly a data repository where people can, like, ah, search for donors in the region and reach out to them directly. And we're usually trying to spend time with ah, going to hospitals and trying to let them know that the P exist so that when people at hospitals need the blood as well they can. If they know that this excess, then they can help lower people. So so that's what we do for, like, the demand side. And that's what we do for supply, say. But ah do when we are trying to go to different universities and trying to get people to sign up. What we also provide is ah ah, blood group testing option so that if they want to get there, but just like their tested to see which group they fall into, we provide that as well. So, um, many people who have experience with that and we need all like all the equipment for that and older, um, stuff

they're saying, um, are the main like today we have around 200 wall in tears and that obviously, crew as we kept going to more and more colleges, Um, the thing is, initially, the team is very, very small. It was just me, a couple of my friends from high school and a couple of people from my company who are helping me of it that excite. So it was very few. And because all of these people are people that I know, um, and people that have either studied with or uh I do spend like time with them working on something, one thing or the other that it be home works, for example, Or maybe just probably X for these soft rangers. I worked with projects, so since they work in my company so the initial team, because they're very close to me, I felt like that was very easy to not get because all we had to do is just to meet on talk and decide what works we need to do and, um and then just go with it. So the initial team, I feel like since the people are people that I've already worked with, and I know that their commitment and I know their mindset, and I know they're working. So life a live was super easy to a deal it. But as you kept going, the challenges, as I said, as they're more and more warrant years, people have different requirements. People have different our capabilities, and people have different willingness to cooperate in different motivations. But at least in this case, the motivations are that usually people just want to give back or like people like the idea, and they want to help. So that leaves the motivation for this decent but also different. People have different levels of motivation, right? So now, like the person who is doing the majority chunk off the work is also warrant here. And although he has, like a full time go up, he switched his job so that he could spend more time on on Mother Blood Bank, which is so that's like that's the level of moderation that he has. On the other hand, there are other students and different universities. Um, the best that they do is just to make sure every year new students keep knowing about the website and that kind of stuff so different people are different moderate. So I think, like my job was to make sure to understand all these different kinds of volunteers and find proper initiatives and proper internal systems to manage a lot these people so that they feel like they're contributing and their satisfying why they're here. Oh, or why they're part of us and old severe doing it. We're doing things not because we have so many people, but because they are aligned with our vision or they're lined with what we're trying to do. Um, so I feel like as we go on, and as with more people, things get, like, baby more complicated. Unless we have, like, really good systems and have, like a really ah. On these systems should be properly designed For what? Empathy in the sense that whoever are like the stakeholders in the system, we need to understand them very well. I think that helps a lot in doing with this, Um, right now, yeah. I could talk a little more if you like in detail. If you want about our team dynamics and what not? But if this if you feel like this, answer depression and era