There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.