About me
I like to think of myself as a storm in stealth mode.
I’ve got fire in my belly and a blueprint in my brain. I chase clarity like a hawk but carry mystery like a snow leopard. One foot stands firmly in hustle culture, the other in spirituality — and it’s that tension that shapes how I work and how I live.
I’ve sat two Vipassana meditations, the first when I was just 19. I pray three times a day and meditate almost every day. Do I need to say more?
I’ve always known I’ll make it, though I wrestle with the patience it takes to get there. I’m a lone wolf who thrives in the crowd — someone who will quietly outwork everyone in the room. And when credit comes around, I’d rather pass it on to others, even when I’ve earned it.
Why? Because I believe in the verse (which also happened to be the tagline of my elementary school):
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
In simple terms: “You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but not to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to inaction”
I believe nothing is ever achieved alone. There are always invisible forces, people, and circumstances that play their part. That’s why I don’t chase credit — I just focus on the work.
What matters to me is doing great work with people who care — and giving back to the world.
P.S. If you don’t know me, this might come across as virtue signaling. It’s not. This is who I am : )
Life Chronology
1999
cried for the first time (still going strong 😉
1999-2014
– i was born and raised in Bihar, India
– went to DAV Public School
– became a master of rote learning and was really bad at math
2014-2016
– had no clue what i wanted to do after school
– dad wanted me to become a doctor (typical Indian parents lol)
– moved to Kota, Rajasthan to prepare for medical exams
– did well in the first year, but lost motivation; watched movies, bought a scooter, had a lot of fun and learned that discipline without a strong why doesn’t last
2016-2018
– thought acting would be a cool job (blame all those movies)
– moved to Mumbai to give it a shot; lasted a year and a half before realizing i liked the storytelling part more than being on camera
– briefly flirted with the idea of boxing (no idea why), moved to Patiala, quit after three days lol
– decided to be financially independent (got my first job at Domino’s)
2019-2020
– got curious about making money online
– moved to Mumbai, studied digital marketing
– launched a travel blog called ‘PedalThrottle’, ranked a few pages on google, and grew the Instagram to 10k followers organically – my first taste of building an audience from scratch
2020 - 2021
– learnt a new word ‘pandemic’
– was super ambitious to grow the travel vlog but witnessed the rise of video and the death of blogging right in real time
– moved to goa, worked part-time at domino’s, and kept the blog alive
2021 - 2022
– moved back to Delhi, tried launching a travel newsletter (didn’t take off)
– tried learning coding (in a month, I went from “hello, world!” to “goodbye, world”)
– got deep into the Indian startup scene, tried to land a role but couldn’t
– nothing was working out, decided to move abroad and start afresh
– moved to Canada in may 2022
2022 - 2024
– studied marketing and communications in college
– did an internship at a cpg startup, later landed a full-time role there
– learned startup speed, wearing multiple hats, and building things with limited resources
2024 - 2025
– startup went bankrupt; lost my job
– decided to pause and build something of my own instead of rushing into another role
– experimented for a few months, realized i wanted more long-term purpose
– burned through savings, went into debt, took a minimum-wage job
– worked my way out (learned grit the hard way)
2025 - present
– pursuing a project that deeply aligns with my long-term vision
– looking to work with ambitious people building meaningful products
Reflection:
If you read this far, you probably noticed I’ve wandered a lot — and maybe even thought, “this guy’s done nothing remarkable yet.”
you’re not wrong. I haven’t built anything great (yet).
But to my defense, I’d like to borrow Jeff Bezos’ words (video here):
"Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility. Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going. Sometimes you know. Sometimes you don’t. And wandering is the acknowledgement that — in life, business, invention, and building — you can see the mountain top, but not the trail. So you have to explore and wander. It may feel inefficient, but it’s actually very valuable. When you know where you’re going, yes, you should be very efficient . You just need to do both exploration and determined execution. And they actually do feed each other. It’s the things that come out of the execution that give you new data and ideas about what the next steps should be in your exploration. The two things don’t work against each other — they work together."
I didn’t know where I was going. I just knew I wanted to do something great.
Whether it was acting, blogging, or startups, the goal was always the same: to build something that mattered.
Maybe all that wandering wasn’t me being lost. Maybe it was me finding the trail.
“He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right.”