May 2025 – Jul 2025 · 2 mos

• lived with 10 strangers for a month. everyone else was building in ai & hardware. got to learn a lot & be the dumbest person in the room.

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

• college counselling needed a change. we tried to fix it. reached 1.2 cr arr profitably, raised on shark tank, students got admits to top colleges, & showed consumers that a different approach is possible. fell to co founder conflict. truly believe this is a massive problem that someone should take up, happy to share our learnings with anyone trying to build in this.

Dec 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• built summer programs. 5000+ students from 30 countries enrolled. however, summer programs are not monetisable in india to the level we thought. started solving from college counselling after hundreds of student interviews.

Jul 2023 – Dec 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• did college partnerships & built a new feature to help users build proof of work.
• mostly spreadsheets, and chatgpt work, but I learned a lot about building a startup, from how hiring works to pivoting your product. the team was incredible & changed my life.
• first big boy salary, shifted to a new city for this job, and got a crash course in adulting.

Jun 2023 – Jul 2023 · 1 mo

• struggled on canva for the majority of the day.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos

• wrote content for various mediums. couldn't manage this alongside 11th grade at the time, so I had to leave.

May 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs

• ran a cloud bakery (?) with my younger brother. he baked, i sold. got us both hooked to entrepreneurship.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

• started exploring various fields at 14. from doing social media marketing for a design coaching centre to teaching english to 3rd graders. got all my initial opportunities through random discord servers. cold emails worked great too.
• during this time, i started applying for summer programs, and realised they were too expensive. so I started building brooks brainery to combat that.