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Peerzada Abrar  |  Bengaluru 

Mohanjit Jolly lost a good amount of weight during this pandemic as he walks about 20,000 steps (10 miles) every day in Silicon Valley in the US. What also helped in this transformation is that he started cooking and eating home-made food.

Before the pandemic, a lot of travel and hopping from one hotel to another was a key aspect of the job for Jolly, partner at venture capital firm Iron Pillar. Jolly is also keeping a close tab on the huge transformation he is seeing in the Indian startup ecosystem. Prior to Iron Pillar, Jolly was a partner at American venture capital firm Draper Fisher ...

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First Published: Sun, February 21 2021. 15:54 IST
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