Deepti Sharma: Food Entrepreneur on Running for NYC City Council and Living in India After College

Brown People We Know with Suraj Kandukuri

Deepti Sharma doesn’t just eat at restaurants, she builds businesses around them. She’s a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur with two food-related ventures. In addition to her businesses, Deepti is very active in the NYC community. She’s a board member for the Business Center for New Americans, a mentor in the WE NYC initiative, and one of the candidates that ran for NYC Council this past year.

In this episode, Deepti shares how COVID affected her two businesses differently. She reflects on her experience as a candidate in New York’s first ranked choice election. And she talks about asking her kids lots of questions, and the definition of success that she wants to leave them with.