with shekhar kapur guy ritchie tarsem singh and more and then most recently working closely with kobe bryant who i have long admired has been ready great and eyeopening3 what do you like best about your profession im a content creator and storyteller and there has never really been a better time for us to do what we do between the tools and technologies that are now available from file sharing to cameras to endless distribution platforms social media blogs video platforms etc this is an incredible time to be able to create content and share it with the world we can build audiences engage and interact with them and largely dont have to bother with gatekeepers in between i also like the fact that theres never any cap on creativity new ideas are infinite and thats awe inspiring to me4 what who inspires you to scale greater heights and keep forging ahead im careful not to idolize people that i dont really know fully im lucky to work with a lot of people who are great at what they do and that certainly inspires me and pushes me to be my best but im also conscious of the fact that all human beings have failures and to put someone on a pedestal is to also set yourself up to be disappointed i have a tightknit family from my parents and sister and her family to my own wife and son and i think they are the ones that really inspire and challenge me the most we all interact on a daily basis and are very much involved in each others lives emotionally and otherwise and thats probably the greatest support5 name three people whove left a lasting impression on you and your career so far how have they influenced you my father deepak has been a powerful influence to me both personally and professionally obviously i have had a front row seat to his rise over the course of my life a lot of people dont know his backstory that for the first 40 years or so of his life he walked a pretty traditional professional path that also happened to make him miserable personally that being so he decided to transform himself and walked away from his medical career and reinvented himself that takes a lot of courage but he didnt hesitate and ever since then i have witnessed something in him that is hugely adorable if hes not inspired by what hes doing he just doesnt do it i started a company virgin comics with my friend and partner sharad devarajan back in 2006 we were both young entrepreneurs with limited experience at the time but somehow convinced sir richard branson to invest in us and our wild dream a lot of highs and lows from that point but the one constant was having a passionate partner in sharad willing to commit himself entirely to his dream a business