Eknoor joined in 2024 and focuses on AI, cloud/SaaS, and consumer businesses. Prior to Accel, she was a management consultant at McKinsey, advising clients on growth, strategy, and cost optimization. Earlier in her career, Eknoor interned at Kae Capital and Deutsche Bank. She graduated from IIT Kharagpur.
Get to know Eknoor
What’s the most impactful piece of advice you’ve received?
"Opportunities will keep coming, you just need to keep your doors open" has been the most impactful advice given to me by my uncle, who is also my role model. As humans, we often overthink about missed opportunities. We while away precious time repenting, replaying scenarios, pondering about what could've been. Surely, it's important to not be casual about important decisions and it's also important to reflect and learn from one's mistakes. But one should definitely not keep living in the past, chasing that missed train while so many more are destined to be waiting at your station.
What’s your go-to productivity hack?
My go-to productivity hack is to not just make a to-do list, but to also pen it down on my calendar. This helps me brutally prioritize the critical tasks. In an ideal world, I could be making infinitely long to-do lists, not bound by time. Adding time as a constraint keeps me from boiling the ocean while making sure I actually get things done!
If you could master any skill instantly?
The only skill I am looking to master is to be here now. I find multitasking to be one of the biggest myths. My hypothesis is the ones who are known to be good multitaskers, in reality, are just too good at doing one task at a time. It's easy to have a motley of thoughts swirling in your brain, mistaking it for productivity. What's difficult, is to put aside the noise and focus on a singular state of being.
For the longest time, I would engage my brain's bandwidth in a gazillion thoughts about past and future. It became a second nature, often transitioning to an auto-pilot mode flying through the array of thought clouds. Little did I know, I was tiring my mind on a hamster wheel, covering a lot of distance, but with zero displacement. And while the world's progressing towards fully autonomous vehicles, I'd very much encourage being in the driving seat, and consciously entertaining the thoughts that matter :)
What is your most used emoji, gif, or meme?
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