I’m a 23-year-old product manager and the ex-founder of Nyus, a VC-backed media startup.
I was born on 18th September 2001 in Patan, Gujarat- a small town in India.
I was introduced to HTML at school and fell in love with it. I taught myself multiple programming languages and I now code web and mobile apps.
I learned my first few programming languages from books like Missing Manual and Head First because we only got 1 GB of internet data per month.
The startup bug hit me some time in high school. I left every other hobby and became a full-time computer geek.
I built a classroom management software, a blue-collar job website, an anti-whaling non-profit and much more.
BUT- I didn’t launch any of them. I was just a builder, not a seller... yet.
PitchMy first startup pitch at a local college in 2016. I was 15-years-old and the youngest participant where I received a special mention for the best pitch deck.*
*In hindsight, that deck sucked.
Confusion hit me in 2017. I knew I wanted to start up but how? What do you study for that?
I chose PCM (science) in high school but soon realised that wasn't for me. I wanted to do a startup and an engineering college won't help with that because I already knew how to code.
I convinced my parents to let me skip college and I went to Bangalore to do internships. I found myself an internship, coded their website from ground up, and bought a gift for my mom. Within 2 weeks.
I changed my mind about college. I joined a BBA course that only required 3hrs/day and gave me an intro to the business world. Only 3 hrs of college meant I could focus on starting up- and that's what I did.
I started building again.
I interned at Illumnus, a LMS software for schools competing with Google Classroom. I made their frontend web app from scratch.
A personality-based dating app. Randomly match with someone, talk for 5 minutes and then swipe left/right.
A chrome extension to watch Netflix & Prime Video while chatting with your friends! It spread like wildfire amongst my friends and I had to shut it down after the server costs emptied my bank.
A customer-retention software that allowed restaurant to give cash back to their loyal customers.
I dedicated myself to philosophy after Nyus' demise. It helped me process grief and fight social anxiety.
I recommend this crash course on philosophy by Hank Green to get started.
MARCUS ARELIUS
FRANZ KAFKA
GEORGE ORWELL
I joined GenWise in 2023 in a product role where I work directly with the co-founder & CPO, Rajat Jain.
I lead 2 key products and help with overall company product strategy on the side.
I lead the GenWise “Friends” product that helps elders meet new people and make friends!
We started with a blank Figma file and reached a major revenue milestone- all within one year.
GenWise solves loneliness by matching elders with ‘Saathis’— trained human companions.
You know who is the ideal Saathi that can talk 24/7 at an infinite scale? AI— and that’s what I build.
Need a product insight? Or wanna fetch some data? Ask Yudy— an internal AI data analyst I built for GenWise.
All you need to do is install a chrome extension and ask what you wanna know!
Remember BuzzFeed’s dumb but fun quizzes? I coded the same for GenWise.
The elder-targeted quizzes helps with organic installs and user-engagement.