Delhi, India
Since I was 13, when I first searched how to make money online, I have been building things on the internet. Blogs, YouTube channels, agencies, communities, startups, events, and now a new undergraduate program. The internet was my first classroom, and I never really left it.
This website is where I keep it all. Ideas, experiments, things I am reading, and whatever I am currently obsessing over. Right now that includes leading the Undergraduate vertical at HiveSchool, but that is one chapter, not the whole story.
Now
Leading the Undergraduate vertical at HiveSchool. Mostly admissions design and program structure right now.
Whether a 20 person cohort or a 200 person cohort builds trust faster. Have not settled this yet.
The rest of this site. This page updates roughly once a month, not once a year.
Projects
Chapters, not a career ladder. Not everything worked, and I think that is worth showing, not hiding.
Leading the Undergraduate vertical at HiveSchool. Joined as a student first, then earned my way onto the team by just building alongside them.
Built a startup school for undergrads, almost entirely alone. Recruiting students, designing programs, selling admissions. It did not scale the way I imagined, but it changed how I think about education completely.
Grew Indraprastha MUN from one conference to over 5,000 students across 300+ institutions, generating 70+ lakh in revenue through collaborations.
Started as the first version of a startup school. Pivoted to selling crypto education for cash flow, then walked away from a revenue generating business once I realized it was not taking me closer to what I actually wanted to build.
Before this
Years before any of the ventures above, the internet was my first classroom.
Searched "how to make money online" on YouTube once, out of curiosity. Never really stopped looking after that.
Ran YouTube channels for gaming and comedy. One got monetized. First money I ever made off the internet.
Moved into blogging and websites. Learned WordPress, SEO, and Google AdSense entirely from YouTube. The sites eventually made 20,000 to 30,000 rupees a month. I did not tell my parents.
Got scammed by an MLM, which taught me more about incentives than any class did. Sold lighters at school, built a small pet ecommerce idea, and cold emailed more than fifty investors for Greybeard, a social platform for elderly people. One investor actually took the meeting.
Ran a WordPress agency for local businesses and sold handbags sourced from Sadar Bazaar under a brand called Bella Deor.
Joined Educaptain, an edtech company, as a sales intern. Became one of the top performers within a few months, and learned that every entrepreneur eventually has to learn how to sell.
Beliefs
Short, incomplete, and likely to change. If a belief stops surviving reality, I will update it.
The internet is the greatest classroom ever created, if you are willing to teach yourself.
Communities create momentum. Institutions preserve it.
Environment shapes people more than curriculum ever will. Young people do not need more information, they need better environments.
Proof of work compounds more than credentials. Almost every real opportunity I have had came from something I built, not from a resume.
Ambition is usually limited more by imagination than by ability.
If something sounds impossible, I usually get more interested, not less.
Confidence is not the same as understanding. I learned this the expensive way, pitching an investor at sixteen.
Selling is just helping someone believe in an idea before it exists. Every builder eventually has to learn how.
I would rather spend ten years building something that matters than ten months building something that trends.
I would rather document the journey honestly than rewrite it as a success story later.
I am probably wrong about some of these. That is fine. If reality proves me wrong, I would rather change my mind than defend my ego.
Journal
Short, occasional, and mostly about what I got wrong.
Essays
Building logs