My Journey So Far
I was born in Punjab, India, and sent to boarding school when I was seven.
For the next 12–13 years, I lived a fairly regimented life: nine months at school, three months at home.
I grew up away from my parents and family for most of my childhood, which probably taught me independence earlier than I realised.
Along the way, I got to experience life outside India through student exchange programmes in the US and UK, living and studying alongside people from very different backgrounds.
Sports was probably the thing I loved most during those years.
I eventually moved to Chennai to study Aeronautical Engineering, before moving to Bangalore and starting my career.
Finding my way into building
My career didn't exactly follow the degree.
I found myself gravitating towards sales, marketing, and design and eventually got my first real taste of building something from zero.
I helped grow a business to around $150K in annual revenue, while building and working with a small team.
It was the first time I experienced what it felt like to take something from an idea to something that people actually paid for.
That experience gave me the confidence to take the bigger leap: build something of my own.
I started freelancing as a writer on the side, figuring things out as I went and making enough to keep myself going.
Building Buildtv
That eventually became Buildtv, my first serious attempt at building in the world of media.
The idea was simple: build shows for brands, VCs, and creators.
But BuildTV became much more than a business.
It was my playground to understand the space, solve real problem statements, and, as I liked to put it, do epic shit.
I got to do a bit of everything.
I led productions from scratch, ideated campaigns, wrote, shot, edited, managed creators, hired people, built teams, worked with clients, and figured out how to make a creative business sustainable.
It was a slow build, but an important one.
It taught me how to turn an idea into a show, a show into a system, and a system into a business.
The next leap
After spending years learning the craft and understanding the problems from the inside, I felt ready to take the next big leap.
Third Studios.
A chance to take everything I had learned about creators, media, storytelling, production, and building from scratch and build something much bigger around it.
And that's where I am today.