my story
and every story awaits its soundtrack.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to fly aircrafts. To shape this into reality, I had decided I wanted to become a pilot. Getting a pilot license and owning an Airstrip is still a bucket list item but most of what I do today involves thinking deeply about building Personalised interfaces that helps teams scale their ops, working with crypto teams, and building side-projects around ideas that excite me while solving problems meaningful to others.
The word “FLY” is still the closest to my heart and will always be.
I started liking hardware early in my teens and spent all my time learning more about them. I even got into robotics and spent 3 good years travelling across the country and participating in college-level tech competitions, building everything from simple line-following robots to racing FPV drones. Alongside, I spent my free hours from school conducting workshops across my city that helped other kids get into robotics.
I worked with the Head Physiotherapist of the Indian Cricket team to research on enabling medical professionals to gain real-time insights on athletes ECG data through the design of custom fabric-based electrodes.
I started my first agency when I was 16 that helped build custom NLP-based chatbots and websites, to fund my ongoing hardware projects. I was also awarded in the Top 20 WordPress No-code Creators category by Bluehost.
This led me to the world of startups. I have mostly spent my teenage years learning things over the Internet and I wanted to build a place for other teens where they can learn anything apart from academic stuff in a cohort fashion. I co-founded thesidepath.in, an alternative education platform — scaled to over 10k+ members and over 15 different colleges. We ended up being one of the finalists on Shark Tank India, and winners of edtech track at Eureka (IIT Bombay).
What got me into crypto was the thought of how we can now build the right economic incentives for talents and creators, where they can finally make money off doing what they do best i.e. creating.
Apricot Finance (Solana Global Hackathon 2021 Winner): Designed product-led growth and community engagement campaigns for Apricot Finance's mainnet launch and IDO, achieving $200M TVL in 12 hours, $30M in IDO tokens sold in under 3 minutes, 34,000 testnet users, and a 150% increase in social media presence.
Up Top Search: Conceptualized and developed a customized ATS solution, that helped them scale to over $1M+ in revenue, 100+ clients, and thousands of hours saved through built-in solution, making it the greatest personalised CRM to ever exist in crypto recruiting.
Eclipse Laboratories: Worked with the Head of Gaming to onboard the first set of Builders over the Eclipse chain, enabling engagement with over 100+ games.
Crypto Coach: Led product and research efforts, contributing to $30M fundraising for clients like Truflation, Canza Finance, Mode Network, Dequest, Tevaera, and launched a newsletter with 3,000+ community of founders and VCs.
Also Launched the studio arm
Placement Labs: a crypto career accelerator with blockchain clubs from Harvard, Stanford, and Penn.
FundraisingOS: Productized our fundraise learnings into building an All-in-One toolkit to raise funds for your web3 startup
I spend time in communities like Kernel(KB7 fellow), Reforge(Alumni), Next Chapter(Chapter Zero) and a few Indiehacker clubs.
I love talking to users while finding hard and impactful problems to solve. I decided to take some time out to figure out my next career move (current status). In the meantime, I started working on a side project that helps teams build custom digital systems and workflows to scale their operations and services as they grow their team. We have done this for some of the well known teams and individuals across the VC and Marketing landscape. Some of these names include dao5, Eclipse, Scrib3, Up Top Search, Woodstock Fund, and several others. I'm spending alot of time thinking deeply about the points 8, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 20 mentioned in the recent RFS by YC writeup.
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