"How to f****** startup" - he asked Google after two failed attempts!

I realized something in 2009 that India

is going to be having the highest number

of unemployed youth by 2020 and then

that hit me like him and how how is it

going to happen all the large companies

will not be able to hire more the only

solution is entrepreneurship and that's

when I took a dive in Why Super Bowl we

have this uh burning dying desire to

purify every space on the planet we're

not able to stop it and we want to make

every home on the planet absolutely

stunning so that's what drives us

we are a business family we've seen good

wealth there but then in those two years

things really turned there were a lot of

policy changes in the government we had

made some heavy investments into certain

factories and then the government

doesn't renew our leases instantly

within a few months from a having

successful nice business which is doing

hundreds of thousands of dollars to now

we are in debt so we faced those

challenges actually until very Rec

recently fourth grade there was two guys

they came and pitched some device it was

a home computer which you attached to a

TV this guy comes and says there a lot

of games and this and I took that right

so that was my first interface with a

computer there was a four-page program I

typed it out copy paste basically and

then when I hit

execute what happened is the TV went

blank a line was

drawn and then a small rocket got drawn

and then the rocket just took off I was

stunned people in my house were stunned

what did you just do and that was my you

know the first love with computer and I

said okay this is where I'm going to be

the first cyborg Cafe opened in

Bangalore he had put up two systems

where you can go and browse internet I

think internet was at 120 rupees an hour

right about then my cousin starts an

internet cafe a larger one in cor mangla

called Pandora's box so I took

inspiration from him and I set up my own

so during my engineering I was running

that internet cafe that took care of all

the builds every in the house plus we

used to have a little more money now

when I look back these were small bricks

in Foundation of how do you create

products and solutioning someone told me

that yeah if you want to export then you

go join one of these companies

understand what they do and then you can

start on your own so that was one of the

reasons that I took up infosis got to

work under a tremendous leader his name

is hit tredi what I learned from him is

you see Talent give them the opportunity

even if that person cannot do it right

it's okay to fail so lot of the career

side is you know a small reflection of

him the project was very interesting I

worked on the very first version ofet

NET Framework 1.0 that project because

of some issue got escalated to nrn out

of thousands of projects in infosis we

wear a subm million dollar project in a

unit called APAC inside APAC we we Japan

it's a new unit in Japan we were a small

project and that gets escalated maybe

some 50 levels up to directly the boss

right so when I went there the client

would give me saying that these are the

five six issues that we have seen by

next day those issues are resolved I

would go back work till about 2 3:00 fix

them because at that time I didn't

understand the commercial aspect of it

whether you have to build the client or

not that gave me a lot of mileage in

infos there were two large experiences

first three was with fuk they are the

world's number one at factory automation

robotics that is the Japanese client the

next 2 and 1 half years was with Goldman

Sachs hardcore work it was a fantastic

experience riding on on these two

successes both the places I said I'm all

said I'm all ready I'm going to come

back and start a CRM business another

person I kind of look up to he had just

completed his MBA from I am Kolkata I

was discussing with him this business

plan and he pooke some 20 holes into it

right I was like okay how are you going

to do this how you going to do that Etc

right and then he pitched his idea

saying that dude you know what I run

this 50 member student team which is

creating this campus solution and I want

to build this and that's where I started

my first startup it was called Vick we

were in eight cities had about close to

30,000 students on the platform and uh

2009 we won the most promising startup

in the country we got Air Time on ET now

that was I think that was a big

highlight and then 2010 we shut we

didn't pay attention to our users we

were listening to people who are paying

or the influencers or what they wanted

so we were continuously building featur

teach we didn't pay attention to what

were people doing on a platform and grow

organically from there the lesson when I

just moved out was we are too early man

we are awesome we built something

amazing people do not know how to use or

these institutes are useless and then I

said oh you need money to build a

startup just passion is not enough so I

joined this company called Vidya next /

bengala they had assembled a great team

and there is uh great leadership I think

we're going to change the way India

learns that was a tagline so that

happened for years change the way India

lovees did not happen again a ton of

lessons in both of those companies some

of the key things how not to run a

startup I Was preparing for my GMAT I

was reading up more about startups

because I want to plant myself there and

I was uh helping my cousin with his

startup idea and I met him for a coffee

one day night and that meeting from 9:00

it went on till 9:00 in the evening I

saw a huge opportunity now some of those

red lights had become green now in this

idea in this vure and then uh one fin

day I just jumped in very quickly built

team got one more co-founder Kiran

myself and ishwar started uh fero fero

was an end to-end home interior design

company similar to space and homeand

very exciting Journey those two years

were we did 40,000 rupees in the next

month in Revenue 4 months from there we

did 40 lakhs 6 months from there we did

2 crores another 6 months from there we

did 4 crores these are all monthly

revenues so we jumped from 40,000 Rupees

to 4 crores per month have having raised

just a few crores we already built a

venture which was on an ARR of 40 to 48

crores that is where I tasted blood

having run bero for 2 years the most

common question customers would ask hey

you're showing me these beautiful

designs from Pinterest or our own design

but how will this look in my home until

the customer doesn't see that design in

their home they're not able to decide so

he said how can all these backend

processes can be simplified into a

solution where the customer does not

have to worry about software instead

it's a blank canvas I can see every room

in

that and I can very easily drag and drop

designs uh uh products just like in a

game we did a real design basically

designed an entire house for a builder

and we went there uh for a demo and it

took 8 and 1 half minutes to load that

design he said by now I've already sold

the apartment like this we Face about

four five of these very critical

challenges which meant end of your

company if you didn't solve that you're

dead and then we have to overcome all of

that and today all of those now become

our VES I was reading abhishek's pose

and where he was talking touching about

multiple aspects and then somewhere I

got invited to one of those uh demo day

Grox was just incredible uh it's not an

easy program you got to do it and I

really liked the clarity of thought the

way the food program is structured and

how this community is getting built I

was pitching for top prop Tech startups

in the country I wanted to get my pitch

deck reviewed right two people came to

rescue one was this community at founder

Circle and the second was chbt so I've

been able to network also really well I

have increased my surface area of luck

we have touched about 3,000 cities now

we want to really now prove that in

numbers that we are world's number one

as a revenue Target we saying can we do

about 50 to 100 CR when started super

Bolter I had a one pager a vision

dock the last line on that said when

Elon Musk sets up that Colony on

Mars the homes there will be designed on

super Bola that's where we are

headed