Monte Thakkar
Monte Thakkar

Monte Thakkar

Hello, I'm Monte. 👋🏻  I would best describe myself as a curious, growth-minded & driven person. I’m an experienced product & founding engineer that’s currently building expertise in early-stage marketing & growth.

I’m currently working on Rosebud Journal along w/ Chrys & Sean at Just Imagine, Inc. We are a small but highly experienced team exploring how AI can help improve mental health. We work from an office in Santa Monica, CA, and have our weekly 1-1s walking on the beach. 🏖️

We previously worked on Curio, which was a widely recognized NFT analytics tool in the Web3 space.

My first job out of college was at a short-term rental startup called Pillow which Expedia acquired in 2018. After that, I worked as an iOS  engineer at Expedia for 3 years.

I have shipped technology products to production using: React Native, Swift & SwiftUI, React, Express, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS Lambdas, Twitter Bot, and Discord Bot.

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Key Beliefs
  • Have strong opinions, weakly held
  • Have a high standard of success and a high tolerance for failure
  • Being aware of internal vs external validation is key to personal growth
  • Who you work with is more important than what you work on
  • Life is probabilistic, not deterministic

Projects 🛠️

Bookshelf 📚

Four Thousand Weeks
Self-Help
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Greenlights
Memoir
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No Rules Rules
Business/Finance
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The Stoic Challenge
Philosophy
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Biography
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Biography
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Meditations
Philosophy
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The Minimalist Way
Self-Help
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