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Ankit Shah

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๐Ÿต Founder of Tea With Strangers, where weโ€™ve brought tens of thousands of strangers together for meaningful conversations IRL. (๐Ÿ“ฐ Feel free to learn more at teawithstrangers.com or in the NYTimes, Forbes, Boston Globe, Oprah Mag, Quartz, Vogue) ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป I help build the future of online communities at Facebook (Groups, etc) ๐Ÿค“ I advise and invest in community led businesses and organizations. (Weโ€™re all looking to belong somewhere) ๐ŸŽ™ Iโ€™ve given TEDx talks on 3 continents about how to bring people together. ๐Ÿก In the past, I worked at Airbnbโ€™s R+D lab, Samara, building the community foundation that supports what is now Airbnb Open Homes / Airbnb.org WHAT I THINK ABOUT โ€” ๐Ÿค” Interested in how we live, how we talk and relate to each other, how we perceive, and how we become ourselves. ๐ŸŒณ People who think and ask questions > people with answers ๐Ÿ’ญ Here for noticing, inquiry and reflection. ALSO โ€” โœ๐Ÿฝ You might like โ€œBeing Alone,โ€ an essay I wrote about connecting with ourselves (www.ankit.fyi/being-alone) ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ I do lots of my reflecting out loud on Twitter and IG Stories. Join me there.