🎙️ From Engineer to Entrepreneur: Niharika Shah's Mission to Revolutionize Aging with Technology

In this deeply personal and insightful episode, Niharika Shah, founder and partner at 404 Harmony, shares her remarkable journey from launching Baby R Us on Amazon when it was just books, to building a venture studio focused on longevity and vitality. Through candid stories about balancing motherhood with a demanding corporate career, caring for aging parents across continents, and learning from leadership failures at Prudential, Niharika reveals how she's revolutionizing the intersection of fintech and health tech. From developing the American Retirement Company to tackle the $2 trillion retirement deficit, to creating Careful One—a comprehensive caregiving app born from her own experience moving her mother with Parkinson's to India—Niharika demonstrates how personal challenges can fuel innovative solutions that help millions of families navigate aging with dignity and financial security.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• The evolution from engineer to marketer to venture studio founder through adaptability

• How 404 Harmony's fractional operating model reduces costs by 73% using AI-first approach

• The critical gap between life extension and quality of life in aging populations

• Why financial wellness and health wellness are inextricably linked for seniors

• The American Retirement Company's innovative solution to 401k borrowing penalties

• Careful One's comprehensive long-distance caregiving platform for global families

• The importance of IQ, EQ, and now AQ (Adaptability Quotient) in modern careers

• How to balance family priorities without sacrificing professional growth

• The power of vulnerability and accountability in leadership recovery

• Playing to win with a bad hand: strategies for navigating career challenges

🌟 Niharika's Leadership Philosophy:

• "You can have it all, just not in one day" - prioritization over balance

• Building businesses at the intersection of longevity and vitality

• Starting with digital labor first, then wrapping human potential around it

• Taking fractional operating roles to see companies through critical growth phases

• Creating meaningful impact through technology while maintaining human connections

👉 Don't miss this powerful conversation about turning personal challenges into business solutions, the future of aging technology, and how to lead with vulnerability while building the next generation of age-tech companies.

🔗 Connect with Niharika Shah:

• Email: [email protected]

• LinkedIn: Niharika Shah

• Company Website: 404harmony.com

• Careful One Platform: carefulone.net

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