My story
My life is a story about exploration.
I never planned to become an entrepreneur. I was just curious — and every exploration kept leading somewhere I didn't expect.
2020
A camera and no audience
On 19 March 2020 I started a YouTube channel. Two years and 200+ videos later it still had barely any traction, and I moved on. It left me one thing worth more than views: I stopped being afraid of talking to people. That skill is what pulled me into rooms full of ideas.
2021
Paying my own way
Somewhere in the middle of engineering I became financially independent from my family — my own fees, my own dues, my own mistakes. It was the hardest stretch of my life so far, and the first time I learned that surviving a situation is a skill of its own.
2021 — 2023
Three ventures, three endings
Truscript started in a park near my house as ten-minute medicine delivery, pivoted for a year, and closed because we did not understand the domain deeply enough. Designity, a video agency, made real money and paid our bills — I left because it stopped being interesting. Echo actually paid students for gig work, but the unit economics never worked.
2023
Build3
Echo failed, and failing at it is what got me into Build3 — five rounds of selection, nineteen people from across India, and a few months in Goa that rearranged my life. I met a co-founder, walked into an ecosystem I had only read about, and left with funding.
Today
18startup
We started on 19 October 2023. It is my fourth venture, and the first where the hard part is not survival but scale. I run operations and marketing, and I spend most of my time on problems that do not have obvious answers.
I kept exploring, and every exploration led me somewhere unexpected.
