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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And when did you form the market upgrade? When did you start monetizing besides your YouTube? What were the other sources?
A So, uh, the funny story about that is I used to get a lot of messages from companies by the end of 2020 saying that, hey, you seem to have grown your channel a lot and we want you to create similar content on our YouTube channel. So here's our offer. You become a content strategist on our YouTube channel. You show your face and you make videos for our channel. And I was, and I got this offer from like three or four coding at tech companies. So I thought, why not Work with all of them and launch my own agency, right? And, uh, prior to that, I was working as a freelancer, so I knew a little bit about how all of this works, but again, launching your own business, doing all of that, sales, I had, I didn't have much experience of that, because till then, all the reach and the clients I was getting was inbound, right? I haven't been on, like, a sales call with, with a client or something. So that was, uh, my experience. I just called up my roommate. I was like, bro, what are you doing these days? So he's like, let's just try to build something interesting. So he's into Instagram. He helps a lot of companies with their Instagram. So I thought, you handle Instagram, I handle YouTube, and we'll try to build this from scratch. So the initial clients, we got Coding Ninjas as one of our clients. We got Rajshaman is also one of our clients. We got a lot of clients. So my learning from all o…
AI assessment note: “by the end of 2020... why not Work with all of them and launch my own agency”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q You have taken a very unusual career path, which you have obviously talked about, right? Dropping out of bits. Goa at an early age of 21. Do you see more people doing that right now? Like, India is, is ready for that dropout wave that US had a few years ago?
A So I do a lot of meetups. I did one in Hyderabad. I did one in Delhi, one in Bangalore. And out of all of them, I have seen, I'm seeing this pattern that, like, at my time, if I were to look at any student who is doing, like, PCM, I would just assume that they are ready for IIT. That is no longer the case. Like, I meet these students who are in the 11th and 12th grade, and I ask them, what are you doing? I was like, I'm coding, I'm chill, I'm learning new skills, I'm learning computer writing, I'm already working in some company. So I was like, that's a very good thing. So I think that has been there. There has been a shift, but there's a lot of naivete as well with it, right? So people often are not aware of the unknown unknowns when they take the decision of not doing the degree. I took it because even if my channel was to go down, I have learned a great deal About marketing. About how does a product really go out there? Like what is the strategy to launch something? And so I think that will help me in my career regardless of the degree that I have. And even my degree was electrical engineering, so it won't really help me out much. So I think that has been the case, but they are opting to not go for the typical rat race of IITs and focus on upskilling themselves. Which is very different.
AI assessment note: “I'm seeing this pattern... There has been a shift”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q And take us back through your journey, right? You applied to IITJ. You couldn't get into it. You got into one of the best colleges in India. But that rejection, that, uh, that pained you deeply. So, so, what are the next steps that, that you took to, you know, overcome that pain?
A So I remember, ah, the day the IITJ advance result was announced, the results were delayed. It was supposed to come at nine o'clock in the morning, but it came at about four o'clock that day. And the entire day I was super nervous. I didn't know what the result would be. I knew I, I didn't like completely crush the paper. I was, uh, fairly confident that I would at least make the cut. I would at least get like, you know, seven, 8000 rank or something, which wasn't the best, which wasn't what I planned. But, uh, it was what it was. I always made this thing sure that once I'm done with IIT J.E., I will just never look back. You know, there are people that say that, okay, IIT nai hua in first attempt. Let's try once more. Let's take a one year gap. I was clear that I will not do that because that's just not the best way to utilize my age, this, this age that I have right now. So I looked at my result. I could not clear IIT J.E. advance, and that was a very strange day in my life, right? I was, I was sad. Ah, that day it was raining in Mumbai. Me and my father went out for a long walk, and I was just thinking, kya hogai life mein, right? Like, three years I have put in. I used to, I started going into coaching from 10th grade. I was preparing for NTSC exam. After that, I started preparing for KVPY, then I started preparing for J.E. mains, J.E. advance, J.E. mains ho gaya, J.E. adva…
AI assessment note: “I was clear that I will not do that... thankfully, I had given two more exams”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q 10 years ago, I don't think Ishan Sharma would have existed, right? Content creation was frowned upon the 10 years ago, right? It was only the news anchors, channels were creating content. And now there's such a huge wave, right? How do you think that timing has played a role in your success?
A I think, uh, like people call me like a COVID creator, right? Which sounds weird, but basically I started when everyone was consuming a lot of content and I came back from my college. I had all the time in the world To record more videos, to upskill myself, and that's what I did, right? So I think if it would have not been for the pandemic, I would not have gone all in for, for YouTube, because I just did not have the time when I was in college. So I think, ah, like the circumstances have played a huge role. Yes, I've been lucky. 10 years ago, I think obviously there were no real influencers, at least in India. This term has recently come up, ah, I think they still don't get what they deserve in terms of the hard work that creators put in, in terms of reinventing yourself every single year. It's really hard. Like if you listen to some of the things that Tanmay Bhatt says and how he has rebranded himself over the past five, six years, it is really incredible.
AI assessment note: “I think if it would have not been for the pandemic, I would not”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q But do you feel burnout doing so many things right now?
A I do feel burnout. That's why I go to the gym, right? It helps me out a lot. It helps to clear my mind. So that is definitely great. I just relax in the night time. So that's great. Uh, the weather over here is great as well. So that helps out as well. So I just like to be like in a peaceful state of mind, like here we are, right? So I can just go into my room. I can sit at one place and just think about what I want to do. I'll take my iPad out and I start, start just writing whatever it is that I have in my mind and just get it out there. Out of my system. I used to journal a lot when I was in school, so I used to just write down whatever it is that happened throughout the day, and what was my learnings through that. I have recently resumed that, so I'm writing my diary entries again. I recently looked back at what I was doing when I was in 11th grade, and that was really a great introspection or reflection point. So yeah.
AI assessment note: “I do feel burnout. That's why I go to the gym, right?”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 2 3.40
Q And how much do you pay per month for this kind of role in editor?
A It depends. Like, for example, there are editors in MarketUp who make, like, 70 to 80,000 per month as well. Then we have people who are working here full-time, right? So, for example, Simon is a third-year student in a college. He, uh, deferred from studying in placements in his own college, and we gave him an offer as well that he showed to their, to his college, and the college is way more happy to let him do what he is doing. So, we are also offering him, uh, revenue sharing. In our own company. So it's, it's sort of like giving ESOPs, but in this case, you want to share whatever it is, the profits that we make with him, so that he has been working a lot in the last one or two years, and so we want to make sure that he gets duly rewarded. Um, so that's one example. We've also helped a lot of people, uh, get jobs in companies, right? So there was this one guy who we trained in our cohort, and, uh, he got a full-time offer of, like, 15 LPA to work as a designer in Code Dam. Right. So that's another example of how we're empowering people, helping them get opportunities. So that's what we do. Uh, how much we normally pay, uh, it can depend. Right now it ranges from like, 25,000 to 50,000. That's how, how much we pay to Simon. And, uh, yeah.
AI assessment note: “Right now it ranges from like, 25,000 to 50,000.”
