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  "name": "Nav Chatterji",
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  "intro": "I'm Navajeet Chatterji. Friends call me Nav. I enjoy design, technology and finance.",
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    "I'm Navajeet Chatterji. Friends call me Nav. I enjoy design, technology and finance.",
    "I spend most of my time these days at Lazy Eight, a brand-building practice I founded in 2013. We help build new brands and evolve existing ones, bringing strategy, design, technology and marketing together in one holistic, senior-led practice. We've worked with more than 400 brands representing roughly US$250 billion in combined enterprise value. Lazy Eight is based in New Delhi, Dubai and New York City.",
    "Outside Lazy Eight, I occasionally invest in early-stage brands through a small solo-GP fund I founded in 2015 called KHOOB.",
    "I'm also a technophile. I'm usually experimenting with new technology with friends, mostly for fun, and sometimes helping with their startups. It's a fun way to keep learning and keep that side of things sharp.",
    "Away from work, I enjoy shooting black-and-white photographs, do a little micro-farming when I can and love exploring new eats. I also root for the Dallas Cowboys, the team I grew up watching.",
    "I spent my first 13 years in Fort Worth, Texas, then went to middle and high school in New Delhi. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in computer engineering and economics. I started my career in investment banking on Wall Street before moving into early-stage technology companies and entrepreneurship.",
    "These days, I split my time between Dubai and New Delhi.",
    "I'm not particularly active on social media. The best way to reach me is n@navchatterji.com."
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      "name": "Lazy Eight",
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      "role": "Founder, Partner Principal",
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      "endYear": "present",
      "description": "A holistic, senior-led brand-building practice helping build new brands and evolve existing ones through strategy, design, technology and marketing.",
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      "endYear": "present",
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  "background": {
    "childhood": {
      "place": "Fort Worth, Texas, United States",
      "period": "First 13 years"
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    "secondarySchool": {
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      "period": "Middle and high school"
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          "Economics"
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    "Design",
    "Technology",
    "Finance",
    "Black-and-white photography",
    "Micro-farming",
    "Dallas Cowboys",
    "Experimenting with new technology with friends",
    "Exploring new eats"
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