Jatin Chaudhary

Eight eChai gatherings this week across four cities.

Thursday was Ahmedabad. AI Cafe in the evening, and the Women Founders x AI session on the same day.

Today it moves to Pune and Bengaluru. Pune has two. FailCode in the morning at DevX ABZ, where people talk about what did not work. Then the eChai Startup Demo Day at Ideas To Impacts in Baner in the evening. Bengaluru has its eChai Startup Demo Day at Founder Startup House in Koramangala.

Tomorrow is the eChai's Startup Open House. DraperU in Hyderabad and Founder Startup House in Bengaluru, both at 11 am.

The next eChai Startup Demo Day is on 26 September, with 12 cities confirmed so far.

All of it is free to register at eChai.Ventures,

Umesh Uttamchandani runs DevX. We hold eChai gatherings in their spaces city after city, so for a lot of founders here the name is an address more than a company.

Forty-five minutes with him on Radio LJ 90.8 FM, on how it got built.

Every Wednesday night we play cricket in Ahmedabad with founder friends at eChai.

Then came one particular Wednesday. One of the guys got out early again and ended up on the losing side again. He was still there for the whole game, and he still came back the next week. But that was the night he decided cricket alone was not going to do it for him.

That is when he told us he plays padel, and that he has been playing it properly for years.

So he started pushing for it. We should try padel, you will all love it. Very generous of him.

Now Thursday night padel is part of the routine, and he wins every week.

Maybe that is what changing the game actually means :-)

Launching WorldCultureMap.com next week.