Building businesses around inevitable shifts

I didn't set out to become a founder.

In college, I started creating content for one simple reason. I thought it would make my applications to schools like Harvard and Stanford stand out. Spoiler alert: Harvard didn't happen. But content did.

What started as a side project turned into a million-plus audience, over 100 million views, a talk show, TEDx stages, and the opportunity to speak to thousands of students across the country. From the outside, it looked like I'd figured it all out.

Then one algorithm update changed everything.

Almost overnight, I lost access to the audience I'd spent years building. That's when I realized something every creator eventually learns the hard way: if you don't own your audience, you don't own your business.

That single lesson changed the trajectory of my career.

Since then, I've been obsessed with building products that help people create real businesses instead of chasing fleeting attention. That obsession became TagMango, one of India's leading creator economy platforms, and now Backstage Pass, where creators go live everywhere at once and bring their audience into a space they actually own.

Today, I'm still doing what I've always loved: building, learning, and sharing everything I discover with other founders along the way.