Contact:

anandlallria@gmail.com

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In the works:

PII

Inspired by:

Apoorva Mehta

Ariel Durant

Bobby Kotick (Pt.II - A Steve Jobs story that I’ll use one day)

Bhai Pinderpal Singh Ji

Bill McDermott

Brad Gerstner

Casey Neistat

Chamath Palihapitiya

Chris Sacca

Claire Hughes Johnson

Daddy Elon Musk (Pt.2)

Doug Leone

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ernestine Fu

Francisco and Brytni Soto

Gordon Moore

Harry Stebbings

Henry Kravis (Pt.2)

Howard Lutnick (Pt.2) (Pt.3) (Pt.4)

Howard Schultz

Irving Thalberg

Jagdeep Singh Bachher

Jamie Dimon (Pt.2) (Pt.3) (Pt.4) (Pt.5)

Jason Calacanis

Jarnail and Harpreet Lallria (my parents)

Jean Liu

Jeff Bezos

Jensen Huang

Joe Rogan

John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy

Josh and Jared Kushner

Justin Kan

Ken Griffin

Kobe Bryant

Larry Page

Lex Fridman

Liu Chuanzhi

Margaret Zhang

Mark Zuckerberg

Marlon Brando

Masayoshi Son

Navin Chaddha

Naval Ravikant

Nikesh Arora

Orson Welles

Pat Grady

Paulo Coelho

Paul Tudor Jones

Phil Knight

Raja GuhaThakurta

Reshma Madhusudan

Roelof Botha

Robert Moses

Sam Altman

Sarah Cannon

Sarah Guo

Sarah Tavel

Scooter Braun

Sergey Brin

Shanti Bhavan

Sheryl Sandberg

Simrun Lallria (my sister)

Stanley Druckenmiller

Steve Jobs

Teddy Roosevelt

Timothée Chalamet

Toyota

Travis Kalanick

UCSC SIP

Verve Coffee Founders

Walt Disney

Will Durant

Zayats sisters

And everyone who’s helped, taught, guided, and mentored me along the way.

Books I have enjoyed:

1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline - Ray Huang

1984 - George Orwell

2024 Harvard Business Review

2025 Harvard Business Review

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son - John D. Rockefeller Jr.

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

The Accidental Prime Minister - Sanjaya Baru

The Age of AI and Our Human Future - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Amp It Up - Frank Slootman

Angel - Jason Calacanis

Antonius and the Zodiacs - Dahlia Ornelas

The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire - Eckart Frahm

Bad Therapy - Abigail Shrier

Badass Affirmations: The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women - Becca Anderson

Bag the Elephant: How to Win and Keep BIG Customers - Steve Kaplan

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco - Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Becoming - Michelle Obama

Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Valor: A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrifice, and Survival - Jon Erwin and William Doyle

Bibi: My Story - Benjamin Netanyahu

Billionaires' Row: How a Series of Bi-Coastal Tycoons Seized Manhattan's Best Real Estate - Katherine Clarke

Black Boy - Richard Wright

A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet

Born of This Land - Chung Ju-yung

The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

The Campaigns of Alexander - Arrian

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back - Dr. Seuss

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities - Ray Oldenburg1

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Pursuits into Enduring Competitive Advantage - J. D. Schramm

Christmas Pig - J.K. Rowling

Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service - Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu

The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Healthcare Organizations - Toby Cosgrove

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age - Leo Damrosch

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt2

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time - Maria Konnikova

The Conference of the Birds - Attar of Nishapur

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull

Doce Cuentos Peregrinos (Twelve Pilgrim Tales) - Gabriel García Márquez

The Donner Party - George Keithley

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto

The Ear Book - Al Perkins, Illustrated by William Payne

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Educated - Tara Westover

Edison - Edmund Morris

Einstein - Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg Mckeown

Ethics - Peter Singer

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World - Robert M. Gates

Fall Leaves: A Collection of Prose and Poetry - Will and Ariel Durant

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide - Charles J Woelfel

Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought - Susan Jacoby

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - John M. Barry

The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow

The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

How to Appear Normal at Social Events - Lord Birthday

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai

I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 - Douglas Edwards

The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner

India: A Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul

Invested: How I Learned to Master My Mind, My Fears, and My Money to Achieve Financial Freedom and Live a More Authentic Life3 - Charles Schwab

Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince - Mark A. Vieira

John Adams - David McCullough

Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923-1968 - Niall Ferguson

L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times - Michelle Obama

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Mao: The Unknown Story - Jon Halliday and Jung Chang

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman - Ben Hubbard

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

The Norton Anthology of Drama - J. Ellen Gainor

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Odyssey - Homer

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss

Open - Andre Agassi

Paid in Full: Building a World-Class Organization on the Gospel - Paul Chappell

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan

The Plague - Albert Camus

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schultz

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest - Edward Chancellor

The Prophets - Abraham J. Heschel

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy - Jeremy Shere

The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company - Robert Iger

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer

Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before -- and After -- You Marry - Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - Claire Hughes Johnson

Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison

Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958 - Albert Camus

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting - Robert McKee

The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage - Will and Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization II: The Life of Greece - Will and Ariel Durant

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers - Will Durant

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Ted Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam Grant

The Thomas Sowell Reader - Thomas Sowell

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing - Bronnie Ware

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey K. Liker

Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life - Luke Burgis

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany - Adam Fergusson

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America - Douglas Brinkley

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar and Bill Carr

The Wright Brothers - David McCullough

The Yosemite - John Muir

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice - Shunryu Suzuki

Background:

UC Santa Cruz (B.A) Economics & Business Management (Emphasis in Finance)

Assistant Director (SIP 2023 & 2024)

Operations Coordinator (SIP 2022)

Implementation Consultant at Enforce Consulting; nCino (Salesforce) (2021)

SIP Program Assistant (SIP 2020)

Finance Assistant at UC Santa Cruz Athletics (2019)

Student Manager at UC Santa Cruz College 9/10 Dining (2018)