Publications & press
12 pieces
A Journey of a Tech Entrepreneur and Innovator
An Extraordinary Women in Boston feature: growing up in a small village in India, leaving a corporate job in 2011 to found CloudFountain, an MBA at MIT, and becoming CTO and cofounder of Everyday Life Insurance — plus why leadership needs both accountability and empathy. “If you don’t get a place at the table, bring your own chair.”
Forbes · Extraordinary Women in Boston Read the full page →
Capping Off Women’s History Month With the Largest Women-Led Hackathon in New England
Coverage of Springboard’s Women’s History Month hackathon — the largest women-led hackathon in New England — where Dipali served as a mentor and judge, working with teams through build weekend and evaluating the final pitches.
Boston Business Journal · Springboard See the feature →
A television interview, filmed on set
WBZ News (CBS Boston) brought a crew onto the set for an interview about the work happening on stage — directing theater with Boston’s South Asian arts community, and what it takes to get a production in front of an audience.
WBZ News · CBS Boston See the photo →
How to Fix the Pipeline Problem to Hire More Women in Tech?
An International Women’s Day essay on why the talent pipeline is the bottleneck, opening with the interview where she realized a company wanted her to close its gender gap rather than do the job — so she went and started her own instead. Her argument: introduce STEM earlier, hire on potential, and build re-entry programs like the returnship she ran at CloudFountain.
The Ritz Herald · RH Markets, Business Edition · March 8, 2021 Read the article →The MIT-Trained Tech Visionary Turning Barriers into Blueprints for Change
A profile arguing she represents a “new blueprint” for leadership rather than a seat in an existing structure: building CloudFountain through the early years of enterprise cloud adoption, then Everyday Life; turning early imposter syndrome into confidence; and modeling at New York Fashion Week as a standing rebuttal to assumptions about what a technology leader looks like.
Hollywood Times Magazine · June 15, 2025 Read the profile →5 Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned While Hiking to Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas
Twelve days of trekking to 17,958 ft, mapped onto the work of starting a company: find your clan and prepare properly, measure progress by looking back rather than ahead, break the goal into single steps, build an A+ team, and leave the comfort zone on purpose. Written after eight months of training and more than 60 hikes.
Women Who Win · October 29, 2024 Read the article →MIT Entrepreneur on a Mission to Bring More Women Executives and Founders to the Boardroom
A Woman of the Year profile covering the machine-learning platform behind Everyday Life and the numbers behind her advocacy — a returnship-style program at CloudFountain that lifted women in technical roles from 17% to 43% in a year — plus the causes she backs: SETU, Moving Health, and the Taru-Shashi foundation named for her grandparents.
India New England News · May 26, 2022 Read the profile →5 Leadership Lessons For Female Founders
Five lessons drawn from founding two companies: don’t apologize for being assertive, stay authentic even when the best idea sounds far-fetched, hire for diversity because customers aren’t uniform either, don’t let other people’s doubts decide for you — a mentor once told her an immigrant with a toddler and little business experience wouldn’t make it — and keep networking, which she learned as an introvert who taught herself to act otherwise.
Chief Executive · October 20, 2021 Read the article →Three frameworks to help build a product-driven startup
How three frameworks from MIT — beachhead market, minimum viable product, and the cultural, political, and strategic “three lenses” — carried her from a services consultancy to a product company. Everyday Life picked financial advisors and self-described financial nerds as its beachhead, then let watched user sessions reshape a stripped-down platform into version 2.0.
MIT Sloan Executive MBA blog · October 21, 2020 Read the article →Paving the way for the next generation of women in technology
A Leader Speak interview spanning the whole arc: a childhood in a small Indian village with no telephone or television, work in Germany, London, and Boston, and the three interests — optimization, automation, intelligence — that led her to AI. Also the four traits she hires on (curiosity, problem solving, passion, team player) and the program she launched at CloudFountain to return women to work after maternity breaks.
Meytier · Leader Speak Read the interview →Product sunsets & lifecycle strategy
A fireside chat on the least glamorous part of the job: deciding what to kill, how to tell customers, and why a disciplined sunset buys you the room to build the next thing.
Product-Led Summit · Product-Led Alliance · October 29–30, 2025 · Boston, MA See the speaking page →The AI-powered product roadmap: innovation & ethical responsibility
A panel on where product leaders should draw the line as AI moves from feature to foundation — consent, explainability, and who is accountable when a model gets it wrong.
Chief Product Officer Summit · Product-Led Alliance · Boston, MA See the speaking page →