Surreal week & amazing people - part1

This blog post is dedicated to amazing people I have interacted with over the past week.
From time to time, I wondered how I ended up hanging out with them, given then I knew and contributed so little the world compared to what they did.

Friday Nov 9th,
      I and Abhijit had an appointment at 5 pm with Dr.Monique Lambert, a medical ethnographer of Palo Alto medical foundation. Yes, we were still trying to define the need and the scope our healthy food business. Thank to Abhijit creative mind and passion, the idea constantly mutated from group diet control app to grocery delivery service to non-invasive A1C hemoglobin analysis. Ideas were in the air and we didn't know how to move on. Monique is a friend Abhijit...and as an ethnographer she had interviewed lots of patients and extensively studied their behaviors in medical context. Talking to her, Abhijit pointed out, would likely to give us better picture of how these patients' problem (especially regarding diet) and where we might chime in.    
     We met her at a bar in Mountain View, about 20 min drive from Stanford. She did an excellent job explaining interview procedure..what to look for ..what common problems are and even offered help to run a group interview session if we like. We kept talking and talking..Abhijit spit out ideas after ideas..all of them are interesting but we didn't really know how to move on. Until when he mentioned grocery delivery service idea..and said that a female friend he pitched that idea too really hate it..
..That's when Monique' eyes lit up and argued that it was the best one so far ..she immediately laid out a series of possible plans to implement it.
"You guys gotta have me in the company if you wanna go with this idea," she said.
"Oh, we would love to! Wanna be our co-founder?" I said.
..and that's how we got a Ph.D. ethnographer ..with over a decade of experience to join the team.
      We continued talking for another 1/2 hr...all of sudden the next move become much clearer..we laid out plan, define MVP..set up regular meeting time. I'll have to keep the detail about what we plan to deliver secret for now (see my blog post in the future!) ..at least till after we deliver the first version.
      After the meeting, I asked Abhijit if he needed a ride home; he asked to drop him off at another bar (which I can't remember the name). He said he wanna go find some developers/hackers...there are many of them at that bar, according him.
       "what? you meeting you just gonna approach some random dudes in the bar and pitched the idea?" I asked. Apparently, that was his plan...I haven't asked him yet what the outcome was.
        I went back to lab a little after 8 pm, finished cloning before heading home.