This is the first time we’ve featured an entrepreneur on You People. I’m really excited to introduce you to Ajay Mehta, an Indian-American entrepreneur living in New York City. Ajay is an entrepreneur and the founder of Birthdate Candles, a genius business that creates personalized candles based on the day you were born...fusing astrology, self-care, personality and custom scents in one amazing package.

Birthdate Candles has taken the internet by storm and was written about in Elite Daily, Bustle, Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, The Skimm and more. Before Birthdate Candles, Ajay led product development for Wealthsimple and before that was on the founding team at Tilt which was acquired by Airbnb. He started his first company FamilyLeaf right out of college with seed investment from yCombinator.

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