I left college in 2015, co-founded a company that went through Y Combinator, and have spent the years since helping startups grow. This is the short, honest version of how that happened.
Chapter 01
I finished school in Delhi and went to Loyola College in Chennai to study physics. The classroom taught me theory. Almost everything else I learnt outside it.
In 2015 I left college to learn by doing. I worked behind the counter at McDonald's, then found AIESEC, the youth leadership organisation, and stayed for years.
Chapter 02
In 2016 I led partnerships and B2B sales for AIESEC India from Mumbai, working with 26 city partnership heads and taking our Coca-Cola partnership across Nepal and Sri Lanka.
A year later I moved to Kathmandu as Country Director of AIESEC Nepal, running operations with a team of more than 50 people. After that I led marketing and business for Clap Global, a cultural-exchange startup in Mumbai.
Chapter 03
In 2019 I co-founded Unschool in Hyderabad, an online learning platform for students, and ran the business side as Chief Business Officer.
We were backed by Y Combinator in the W21 batch and by angels including Kunal Shah and Mekin Maheshwari. Over five years we grew to more than 250,000 users. I built our first sales team from scratch and moved us from selling to students to selling to universities and companies.
Chapter 04
In 2024 I moved to Stuttgart to lead growth at caisy, a headless CMS. In 2025 I co-founded Scriptbee, an AI-native marketing platform for small businesses, and exited in 2026.
Alongside all of it, I kept writing. The Whatever Matters newsletter now reaches more than 110,000 readers, and the podcast has hosted guests like Scott Young and Darius Foroux. Today I advise founders on marketing and growth through The Growth Mastermind, and speak at universities and on TEDx stages.
Chennai
Left my physics degree at Loyola College to learn by doing.
Mumbai
Led partnerships and B2B sales, and took the Coca-Cola partnership across Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Kathmandu
Ran AIESEC's operations in Nepal with a team of more than 50.
Hyderabad
An online learning platform for students. I ran the business side as Chief Business Officer.
Unschool was backed by Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch.
Stuttgart
Joined caisy as Head of Growth.
Stuttgart
An AI-native marketing platform for small businesses. Exited in 2026.
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