🍵 Founder of Tea With Strangers, where we’ve brought tens of thousands of strangers together for meaningful conversations IRL. (📰 Feel free to learn more at teawithstrangers.com or in the NYTimes, Forbes, Boston Globe, Oprah Mag, Quartz, Vogue) 👨🏽‍💻 I help build the future of online communities at Facebook (Groups, etc) 🤓 I advise and invest in community led businesses and organizations. (We’re all looking to belong somewhere) 🎙 I’ve given TEDx talks on 3 continents about how to bring people together. 🏡 In the past, I worked at Airbnb’s R+D lab, Samara, building the community foundation that supports what is now Airbnb Open Homes / Airbnb.org WHAT I THINK ABOUT — 🤔 Interested in how we live, how we talk and relate to each other, how we perceive, and how we become ourselves. 🌳 People who think and ask questions > people with answers 💭 Here for noticing, inquiry and reflection. ALSO — ✍🏽 You might like “Being Alone,” an essay I wrote about connecting with ourselves (www.ankit.fyi/being-alone) 👉🏽 I do lots of my reflecting out loud on Twitter and IG Stories. Join me there.