Two seventeen-year-olds talking their way past apartment gates to pitch summer camps. A year later: a cold message to a realtor from a Facebook group became a ₹6 Cr sale and three Raine & Horne franchises.
The studio years with Ganesh — Budweiser, Pernod Ricard, Renault, and the Nandini box on that hoarding, photographed on the actual airport shelf. Plus eight client websites, all still live.
We built the AI platform that was eating our industry — Google for Startups, $100K credits, real client pilots. Then a hacked API key and a ₹8L bill. We boarded it up properly.
A real clinic runs its whole day on ELTH. Strangers pay to lock their phones in a box at comeoffline — 100% show rate. And the studio still trades, with Ganesh driving it.
Eight years taught me every job a startup contains. The empty chair at the end of this road is deliberate — I want to master scale, beside the person steering.
If the ride felt like the person your startup is missing — say so.