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.
Leading the Undergraduate vertical at HiveSchool.
Taking admissions interviews. Talking to more 17 year olds in a week than most people do in a year.
New GTM channels. What actually gets a program in front of the right students, and what just looks like marketing.
How many side quests I can run while actually building a startup. Every one of them widens the surface area, and I have not found the ceiling yet.
Everything I wish someone had handed me at 17. One is a field manual, one is an argument, one is about the part nobody teaches. Read them in any order.
Sixty things worth doing before you graduate, sorted by how scared you are and not by how skilled. Plus a 30 day starter plan and the format that separates proof from bragging.
Read itA charge sheet against the system that raised you, and the single scoreboard that replaces marks once school ends. Your marksheet gets asked for once. Your proof gets asked for forever.
Read itLuck is random. Your exposure to it is not. Luck surface area, asymmetric bets, and why distribution decides who gets found. With the research that proves talent alone does not.
Read itChapters, 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, crossing 1 crore 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.
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. 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.
Sold watches under a brand called Lilac. This one actually scaled, and it is where I learned how direct to consumer really works.
Ran a WordPress agency for local businesses. It made good revenue every month.
Started Valeska. The idea was to build a college.
Joined Educaptain, an edtech company, as a sales intern. Became one of the top performers within a few months. Then started InnovateEd, a platform for teenagers to get real exposure, which later turned into QuestSchool.
Short, not exhaustive. I would rather add to this list slowly and honestly than pad it to look impressive.
Short, occasional, and mostly about what I got wrong.