your life ah you know the really the opportunity to meet so many interesting people the opportunity to travel so much I mean I've covered the Oscars I've covered the Golden Globes I've you know I've met I mean I met I met my heroes I've met Spielberg I've met James Cameron I've met Tom Cruise I met Clooney I've met some of the most incredible actors I mean just an opportunity to have a job which allows you to travel watch movies for a living I mean you know most people wait for the weekend to go watch their movies I mean I watch me on a Monday morning the job that I have to do is watch a movie it really is the best job in the world till it starts to not be if you if you allow all of those things to get to you and I think that's the other truth the there will always be cons it's about allowing them to get to you um and on some days you wake up and you're really strong and you're able to


up and you're really strong and you're able to disregard what people are saying on somebody is you're feeling vulnerable and and and even the slightest thing will go block and you know unlike the number of people I've blocked in the last a couple of months it's it's insane because they were just I just feel like you know as you get older I mean I just want pleasantness um but you also have to accept that that's not the world the world is not pleasant right people are and and and you have to realize that you you know I didn't you don't you know what is principle you know that all these people who are who are abusing you it's just their opinion they probably sitting there you know they probably don't have great lives you know all those things and it's your the fix either can I just like tell you something Lisa I want your advice here because you do it on a much larger scale I would imagine that you're getting feedback by the nanosecond how


that you're getting feedback by the nanosecond how does having please how do you deal with it I genuinely believe that it's easy in life to get the numbers and even possibly to become famous I'm successful it's difficult for humans in life to earn respect yeah and I feel for the work you do because you're so genuine with your reviews because you're so out there like you're authentic you've gained a lot of respect over the years from a whole section of this country so even if there are haters out there I can tell you 90% of the people who listen do respect you that's a speck and possibly even the haters the hating you out of the fact that I hate the fact that they respect you thank you I actually try to engage with the haters that is my first you know if you abuse like if you abuse then I intend to block but if you if you're even mean but you have to make your point Allen gage yeah and most people to me like you never


gage yeah and most people to me like you never respond to the people who praising you only respond to the guys were attacking I'd like to give you my opinion of where I came from and you're entirely you're entirely within your right to disregard it right but I try I mean the abuse I abused up if you if you're just like you know if you're gonna wake up and and go like every morning like she'll be okay I don't have the energy that comes apart right right I mean I think it was difficult for me also in the first initial phase of do you need to deal with it but I just figured over time that there is a concept called the concept of negative biases which is that your human mind the way it's built nine positive things happening in your life yeah you'll go on the one that's so negative that's so true which is true over the comment section as well as absolutely true this actually many good things happening here but you tend to


many good things happening here but you tend to focus on the right which is all the respect that comes away right and like I just want to ask you one question to end this conversation which is that a lot of youtubers and I'm talking from this side of the wall definitely look at Bollywood and they definitely want to become what essentially is becoming what Varun Dhawan has become right eventually when we come Shahrukh do you see Bollywood casting the current top youtubers you know I'm as mainstream people I'm gonna actually quote what Shahrukh Khan to me because no one no one knows better than him you know I asked him I said that I said Shahrukh Whitfield's like this generation of superstars your generation of superstars the armorer Shahrukh Salman Akshay Kumar is the last generation of superstars I mean it doesn't even as big as Ranveer Singh in Varun Dhawan and Ranbir Kapoor and Tiger Shroff are it doesn't feel


and Tiger Shroff are it doesn't feel like they've big they have that level of superstardom hmm and maybe they won't maybe because times have changed it's just that that that level of that craze that level of madness also you know they they were superstars at a time when you didn't have access to right superstars in the way they do today they weren't on social media at that time because social media didn't exist so you bought magazines then you put up posters I don't know if any people do that anymore and he said he said it's probably true um but he said that the next the next generation of superstars will not be from films he actually said he used the word and said it's in the interview he said there will be YouTube Superstars and there'll be social media Superstars and there'll be superstars from areas that may not even may not even have been developed fully yet but he said it's possible and and don't look only at films for the next generations superstars


look only at films for the next generations superstars um also the lines are blurring so those those superstars from non film areas might be co-opted because Bollywood is my shameless they will quote they will take you from wherever as if you can sell tickets will have you you could have you could be you could be a race car driver with with a huge following and will incorporate you so I I do think I actually and you're seeing it right I mean a lot of these I mean you know they're now popping up in in smaller smaller roles but a lot of those stand-ups and a lot of Uber's are now you know getting small roles but but most of them are playing themselves I think that what Bollywood needs to become smart on is are you gonna use them as they are because they're so popular or are you gonna convert them into characters and you know you see with someone like boom on you see with someone like projector I mean they're creating characters you know Bhuvan has eight


they're creating characters you know Bhuvan has eight nine characters so these guys are good actors it's just you just requires someone smart to know how to utilize these massive influences and and I don't see why because already we're talking about how the only people buying tickets and going to the cinemas are young people who's also the only guys who are on YouTube and right you know and and consuming all of this content and making super stars out of all of you so I actually do think that that's probably what's gonna happen here why hasn't it happened till now why isn't like oh you forgot a main you I think it's very new still you know I think that I think our super stars are still around I mean listen you're Shahrukh Khan and Salman in the 50s and they're still there I mean their films some do well some don't but they're still very much there this is me Ranveer and Ranbir and Verona all are still tryna get into into that


Verona all are still tryna get into into that slot so the youtubers was you know it's it's it's cyclically it will come it's already starting to happen I mean you know you see that minor film when you see one in a film when you see samokhina filming and it's happening um and and one I believe is you know is meeting people and as has CA handling him and I mean not CA so Quan handling him they used to be CA Kuan so I made that mistake but it's it's just a matter of time it's really just a matter of time it's all they knew and and boy would the you know the creator's need to start sort of thinking differently right okay mr. Raj immerse thank you I really thank you I'm gonna be linking all of sirs handles down below make sure you check it all makes you subscribe follow and show some respect be the nine out of ten thank you thanks you guys thank you


I'm not one of those guys who spends a lot of time watching the new Netflix show the new hot star show the new prime show I'm someone who believes that your time in your 20s should be spent doing things that'll add value to your life that'll help you grow and that'll kind of change you as a person for the adventure that you're going on in your real life there's too many real life adventures to go on to spend your time watching too many shows on Netflix or a hot star or a prime video and that's why in today's episode off the ranveer show India's most value adding podcast we're gonna recommend our top five shows that you can watch online right now that will add some kind of value to your life it'll add layers to your mind firstly the show that I recommend above anything else it's a fictional show but it's kind of semi fiction I guess it's called black marrow I'm sure a bunch of y'all must have watched us and for those of


y'all must have watched us and for those of you who haven't it's about humans in the near future so that's like say 1020 years from now technology is a big factor in that show it talks about how technology is going to become so advanced that it's going to become an integral part of human life for example maybe we'll be able to install chips in our head which record everything we see through our actual eyes kind of like those snapchat goggles but you know contact lens style for example maybe someone will be able to take all that consciousness all the intelligence and put it entirely inside a video game or a virtual reality world maybe they'll pass away but even after passing away the intelligence and the consciousness that's the soul can be put inside a computer system these are some of the plot lines that you'll see on black marrow it's one of those shows that is very entrepreneurial almost I feel that if you're a young businessman and you're looking for the next big tech idea this show


you're looking for the next big tech idea this show will get your mind to think in that direction it'll get your mind expand a little bit that's what I love about this show every time you watch an episode it challenges you challenges how you think of the world it challenges what you think of machines or challenges what do you think of technology and I honestly feel that your mind is molded because of external forces now these can be life experiences or this can be someone else's wacko minds ideas imprinted onto your mind and that's why I feel that black marrow is one of those shows that really messes with your head but it will open up your head in many places that you didn't expect to be opened okay show number two it's called Silicon Valley it's a show about startups again I am an entrepreneur I love shows like that I love shows that teach me something there's two big reasons I feel you should watch this show firstly the fact that it teaches you business through a


the fact that it teaches you business through a fictional show it shows you the life of young entrepreneurs what it takes to grow big what it takes to become rich what it takes to run a multi-million dollar company all the challenges involved and it's a really funny show so it's infotainment packaged as a funny fictional show you'll learn a lot from this show if you're a young entrepreneur you will get a lot of inspiration from it but the second reason I want you to watch this show is because it's about losers just like you and me everyone on the inside somewhere kind of looks down on themselves a little bit we don't think we're heroes we don't think we're motivational speakers somewhere we look down on ourselves a little bit and this is a story about losers just like that who actually make it really big through honest hard work that's why it's inspiring it's very relatable every single person who watches this show will find a piece of themselves inside that show


will find a piece of themselves inside that show okay show number three it's called cosmos it's hosted by one Neil deGrasse Tyson I don't know you pronounce a surname but it's basically a show about the universe just how black mirror challenges your mind in terms of technology this one challenges your mind based on mathematics physics and past science discoveries it's not a fictional show so one of those shows when Neil deGrasse Tyson actually takes you through revolutionary moments in human history say when we discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun or say when the first telescope was invented what the human story was at that point it's a beautifully made show there's a cartoon called Family Guy made by someone called Seth MacFarlane I've grown up watching family guy it was a big part of creative education and life that same guy has been an executive producer on the show I think he's created this show as well it's some of the best graphics that you'll ever witness in any kind of


graphics that you'll ever witness in any kind of series this is the show I highly recommend if you're looking for something extremely heavy to watch it's such a heavy show that you won't be able to watch more than one episode per night it's just too much information to soak in for example I remember there was one episode where Neil deGrasse Tyson is trying to explain the quantum world which is the world of atoms so this is the world that you and me know the physical world which is about this size your and my size a physical laws are based on Newton's laws like gravity like every action has an equal and opposite reaction but once you reduce the size of yourself to the size of atoms the laws of physics change the way gravity is changes everything in that quantum world completely changes and there's one entire episode that takes you through the quantum world there's one entire episode that actually even takes you through a black hole what it must be like after passing through a black hole how Neil deGrasse


after passing through a black hole how Neil deGrasse Tyson actually travels through the black hole and when he comes out on the other side he's in a new dimension with new colors so think of all the colors you know think of red think of yellow think of purple now think of a color that doesn't exist yet what makes you think that all the colors you see are the only colors that exist cosmos talks about concepts like that what that next color could be that's how it unlocks your mind anyway show number four on the much lighter side it's called entourage it's Osho I grew up watching it's about a Hollywood star who basically has come up from humble beginnings and he's brought all his close friends and family with him from New York to LA and he's just trying to make it big in Hollywood it's at that point in his life where things are just starting to go well and as the show progresses you see his rise in the world of Hollywood but that's not the


in the world of Hollywood but that's not the core aspect of the show the core aspect of the show is friendship and good times now I grew up as teenager watching this show there's a lot of drugs alcohol sex in this one but also one of the funniest shows you'll watch it's one of the shows that really kind of plants a seed of ambition in your life I remember as kid someone in one of these school projects asked me what I want to be doing at 25 and I said I want a life like the one they showed in Entourage as a joke because I thought that's really not possible the word entourage means a group following you everywhere now when I started beer biceps beer biceps was started with the intention of becoming a startup and growing in the business world little did I know at the age of 25 I will actually have my own version of an entourage I have my video team following me I have my management team following me I have monkey peeps following me so


team following me I have monkey peeps following me so actually simulated that reality for myself when I genuinely feel that the chase for growth in the media industry was planted when I was a 14 year old watching entourage I said hey you know what I want that I want to be able to go and travel the world with my closest friends and work with them at the same time that's the other aspect of the show he takes all of his friends and gives them rules around him one person says manager one person's is agent one person runs his businesses that's exactly what I wanted that's what I thought would be a dream life so the life I'm living right now is pretty much a dream for the 14 year old version of me if you want glamour dup inspiration entourage is your show okay and the fifth and final show this is a show of just discovered this is actually been the discovery of my lockdown phase it's called the last dance it's a docu-series not a documentary secretary


dance it's a docu-series not a documentary secretary show based on real events and the real events are based on the life and times of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls it's an in-depth look into that man's mind into the mind of his teammates into their story how they built a championship winning team from absolutely nothing from zero to 100 that's what the shows about and it's one of the most beautifully short shows you'll watch in your life that I can promise you if you're a filmmaker if you're an edit this one's a must watch because you'd pick up a lot of nuggets of storytelling of great editing of great camera work from the last dance but on a personal level for me I do feel I've reached a stage in my life where I have accomplished something I'm not a nobody anymore and these are those phases in your life where you need that little external bit of motivation you can't always rely on your mentors to give you motivation you can't rely


mentors to give you motivation you can't rely on your meditation to always give you motivation you do need that little pop culture influence I've been spending my lockdown time watching and re watching this shows on Netflix oh my god after every single episode I'm more motivated than ever it gives me my hunger to go out and record these podcasts it's extremely difficult to be doing this I've actually trained my cousin to shoot and record these podcasts because my entire team was stuck at home throughout this phase it's not easy creating content like this a lot of lockdown days are extremely difficult and man it did require that little extra bit of motivation I did spend some of these lockdown days a little bit frustrated trying a little bit because I was just like yo I've picked up a very difficult career I'm extremely blessed to be working during this phase but it's not easy and that's what it takes it requires that little Michael Jordan style mentality that's what I wanted to


Michael Jordan style mentality that's what I wanted to talk to you guys about in this episode please please if you have to pick only one show to watch out of all these watch the last dance first I hope you enjoyed this episode of the runway show super quick I've only given you all show recommendations which really added layers to my mind I hope you enjoy it and until next time blessings good vibes lots of fiery motivation that should come your way


in this episode of the runway show I am gonna talk from my heart I'm gonna talk about things that have not spoken about ever before anywhere on the Internet I'm gonna talk about self belief my biggest battle when we talk about mental health I do feel we should also talk about mental fitness that's the ability to face the difficulties that life throws at you and ensure that your mental health is still stable while you're facing those difficulties and after you face those difficulties you've gotta work on your mental fitness that's why I promote the idea of meditation that's why I try motivating you're through the podcast to work on your mental fitness but that doesn't mean that your mental health will never get affected the only thing that affects my mental health at this stage in my life are my self belief issues I have a lot of self belief issues I strongly believe that have not accomplished as much as I should have by this point in my career and I know that that's completely crazy


my career and I know that that's completely crazy there's two well-established companies that were running this 55 team members we're just growing your own you even through the lockdown we didn't die out we didn't go down in fact we grew a lot things are going really well in my life and I still I still sometimes just think that man what's gonna happen are you from now will we even exist will we have all that we have right now now in this podcast I'm going to talk about the past the present and the future why do I have self belief issues the story of my self belief issues because I feel y'all will gain from that story I'm gonna talk about the present what do I do today to actually deal with them I'm gonna talk about the future that when those self belief issues crop up in my mind what's my mentality how do I change things up okay the past I had mixed parenting my mom and me I extremely close we've done a podcast with her recently we've always


done a podcast with her recently we've always been very very close she's given me all the confidence that you witness on screen all my talking ability all these communication skills and just the general feel good positivity factor that comes through when I'm on screen or when you're listening to these podcasts that's from my mom I was never close to my dad growing and I feel that's completely okay be cool now but we're not closed the way my mom and me are a big reason for that is I feel we were two extremely alpha people in the same house more so we were two alpha guys with extremely different mentalities one was an academic who respected the education system who respected the concept of marks schools academia and the other guy was me the guy who thought that the future belongs to video content I'm gonna watch TV I'm gonna play PlayStation I'm gonna enjoy my life right now because in the future I'm only gonna take up a career that I enjoy which is gonna be far


career that I enjoy which is gonna be far from these marks and academics I didn't really score well till the ninth grade all my childhood my marks were pretty mediocre ninth grade I started studying because I figured that some of the girls in my class would be attracted to me if I got good marks I just started to impress them that's the truth but up till the ninth grade I didn't study that created a lot of clashes between me and him and did invariably end with him saying things to me like you won't end up as anything in life you'll probably just end up as a security guard somewhere a truck driver but do you respected those job profiles I'm from a family of doctors and doctors kind of value their academics a lot they value their studies a lot which also makes them valuable concept of studies and academics in general if your kid isn't doing well you want to motivate him anyhow he thought that the best way to motivate me would be to


that the best way to motivate me would be to insult me maybe that works for him but that's not how leadership works if you want to lead well if you are the Alpha of a pack I do believe that you should talk to people in their language that's the rule I follow at monk entertainment that's the rule I follow I'd be your biceps I talk to each of my boys or girls in the language they understand best insulting someone might bring the best out of them putting your arm around someone's shoulder might bring the best out of that person because maybe insults worked with my dad had fired him up he thought that insults would work with me and it didn't that's why the mixed parenting I grew up with a lot of self-belief issues on one end my mom's voice would clean my head that you know you're the best you are the man you're gonna go and kill it so I had confidence in my knife but long-term I had a [ __ ] ton of


but long-term I had a [ __ ] ton of self-doubt now I didn't make this decision I didn't decide that I'm gonna listen to my dad and ensure that these thoughts of Hills become my reality start affecting my mental health for my entire life that's just how the human experience is the things you listen to in your childhood they become your rules for life the way you talk to your kids it becomes the inner voice throughout their lives have you guys heard of this thing called implicit memories I'll give you an example of an implicit memory that I picked up from one of my favorite youtubers Elliott Hulse now imagine as a three-year-old four-year-old what's your reality or at home most of the day you go to the kitchen and you spill some milk in the kitchen now when you're three or four years old your parents I ultimate gods if your mum saw you dropping milk in that kitchen and she comes to the kitchen and she's like you


she comes to the kitchen and she's like you know what you're such a horrible can you drop me you made this mess you're three or four years old they are your entire world and your entire world is pissed off with you all the human beings in it up is stuff with you all the human beings being your mom and your dad they pissed off with you and you associate that with milk and milk that's been spilled everywhere you remember the smell of it you forget eventually that this had happened in your life you grow up hating milk but you don't know why you don't remember this incident your mum and dad probably don't remember that incident but all your life you grow up hating milk because you associate milk with fear you associate the smell of milk you smell milk and one of your bros asks you a man why don't you drink milk and you're like I don't know man it's just something about the smell you don't know why you're


something about the smell you don't know why you're feeling that way buddy are feeling that way that's called an implicit memory later on in life when I started beer biceps after engineering college I got through college lots of confidence but also lots of lack of self belief I know it's two contrasting statements how do you put confidence on a lack of self belief in the same bag a lack of self belief means you don't know what you'll be doing a year from now confidence means you're very confident in the actions that you take up today very different now in that phase of growing up I just heard my dad trying to fire me up through insults and I'd face it like an alpha I didn't really affect me then later on in life when I discovered spirituality deep meditations deep spiritual experiences I've had an ayahuasca experience which is a South American spiritual experience spoken about this on my podcast with Luke Coutinho when you have these extremely deep spiritual experiences you go back into your


extremely deep spiritual experiences you go back into your mind you go deep into your mind in some spiritual experiences you're actually able to go into memories that have faded away no in a lot of the spiritual experiences that I had I went back to memories of me arguing with my dad possibly arguing with a few pitchers who also spoke to me the same way in school telling me that I won't amount to anything when I was a kid I just processed it as what do you know you don't know what I'm gonna do in life but all those thoughts sit in your head it's like pressing the accelerator and the brake at the same time you want to react you want to talk back but you can't because they're older than you they're your teachers your parents when you press the accelerator on the brake together it creates implicit memories are painful in your system sometimes in deep spiritual experiences you end up trying you don't know why or crying if you like you releasing something


why or crying if you like you releasing something you releasing some kind of pain you don't know what that pain is that pain is all your painful implicit memories they're like toxins that get stored in your system when you eat junk food when you eat Burgers and Fries you ingest a lot of toxins painful experiences in life also make you ingest a lot of toxins and crying and your meditation letting it out screaming like you've seen that those Osho documentaries screaming in your spiritual experiences that's you releasing all these painful emotional experiences that you've had and all of us have had painful emotional experiences growing up it's called releasing implicit memories initially my spiritual journey that's all I did in my deepest meditation that always cry and after the meditations I'd feel extremely light feel that I've kind of let go of this weight that was pulling me down I didn't even know what the implicit memory was very often Brian you may release some pain


memory was very often Brian you may release some pain if I went into an extremely extremely deep spiritual experience and actually go back to those memories of my dad and my teachers and one at a time and release them I'm not making this up but I kind of understood why I hated Gobi aloo Gobi aloo is a Punjabi dish that I remember I used to like when I was a four-year-old but all my life from the age of six or seven I hated it and then I remember that was probably because over at dinner with my dad we had one of those you are not gonna amount to anything conversations and then I just started associating negativity with the smell of cauliflower and the smell of all when I still don't eat it till today that's my implicit memory problem your job is to find out your implicit memories and that's why I promote meditation so much if you require self belief as a weapon to really kill it in your career or whatever you know if you require


in your career or whatever you know if you require clarity of thought as a weapon if you require a fast brain as a weapon that brain will become faster it'll become more clear it will have more self belief if you're able to release yourself of your own past and your past gets released due to daily meditation within a month you meditate daily for one month at the end of the month you'll see that you're a different person but first understand your own past if you're someone who doesn't want to meditate this process is definitely going to be slower for you but maybe something that could help you is writing down your whole life I know that that's an exercise that's helped a lot of people they write down the whole life with all the painful experiences because when you actually dive that deep into your life you start remembering memories that you've kind of blocked out but nothing like meditation please release yourself of all that pain through your meditation keep in mind me and my dad a cordial today


keep in mind me and my dad a cordial today but chill he was trying to bring me up in the way that he thought was best but just didn't work even today I have such belief issues even though I know that okay it's because of this it's just become that deeply embedded in my head and I find don't know if I'll ever be able to let go of these self belief issues but that's okay I'm gonna talk about the present what do i do right now to deal with these issues and I'm very aware of I take action spirituality and spiritual progress happens when you meditate when you pray when you're good person spiritual progress also happens when you take actions towards the goals you've set for yourself and fast spiritual progress happens when you take actions towards a goal that's larger than yourself I know that through these videos through these podcasts some of you are getting healed some of y'all are gaining some positivity some of y'all are gaining some of my fire I


of y'all are gaining some of my fire I know I've got a lot of fire inside me but the main reason I do this is to put out goodness is to put out the correct kind of mind set out them look at all this pain I have gone through in my own life I want to put it in front of you guys and I want you all to pick up the healings the understandings the discoveries that I've made in my whole life and maybe apply it to your own life the work I'm doing is spiritual at least in my eyes it's extremely spiritual every single video of spiritual progress for me but the core of this progress is the actions I take constantly it's quarantine it's difficult to make videos like this I have to set up these cameras myself have to set up the podcasting equipment myself my cousin's behind the cameras he's just pressing buttons I have a team of like 11 people back at the office who can't join me right now because they're


office who can't join me right now because they're all stuck in their houses it's not easy to do what I do it's not easy to live this life I'm proud of me for that but what I'm even more proud of is that the 22 year older and we promised himself that he's gonna take actions no matter what happens that's the best advice I ever got when I was starting out to be a biceps I was extremely nervous about starting because I thought it why would anyone want to listen to a guy who's fit who's buff but who's not extremely raped who's not extremely steroid it up I always had that fear and my coach at the time Ben Ishida and so he told me that you know what and we just start and tweak it as you go take actions you don't delay big moments in your life like that you just work towards it the greatest flaw of most startups and most entrepreneurs is analysis paralysis Oh Lord the analyze the problem


is analysis paralysis Oh Lord the analyze the problem we'll only study the problem a lot but they don't take that reaction that's what it takes that so how greatness is built you work towards that you actually execute these podcasts don't mean anything if you don't do something after you listen to these podcasts you have some dream at least write it down on paper figure out the actions that will get you there quarantine is the best time to create a new business to create a new service to gain a new scale what are you doing with your time the one just use it to be on YouTube you take actions because you know what the outcome of those actions is you kind of heal these little scars within yourself your actions if you keep at it will often lead to results and when you get that validation from the world the social media likes for me these YouTube subscribers for me follows all the awards we've gained over the years they're all validation and some where they do heal that lack of self belief scar


they do heal that lack of self belief scar from my childhood it's not healed completely but it is much better than it was at 22 I've released myself from a lot of that pain that only happened because I started taking actions I try to grow my career it's also not good to be obsessed with your career you need to know how to draw that balance that's a completely different topic remember even with actions there's two kinds of actions this career actions and that's what I call your real career options there's two careers you're going to have to conquer in this life the first is the professional career where you earn money you gain your material wealth you gain comfort when you've gained that comfort move on to your second career it's called the curry of spirituality self-awareness going deep within yourself releasing yourself of all that pain releasing yourself of all those scars how do you do it 15 to 20 minutes of meditation daily I meditate for an hour daily because I really want to just


for an hour daily because I really want to just get rid of these scars you just have to begin with 15 or 20 minutes of meditation you have no idea how much it's going to help you the lesser the number of scars inside your body the more efficiently you'll work the more peacefully you'll think and the more lovingly you'll live your relationships will improve Korea will grow more than you can imagine and you'll be much more peace than you ever have been take action execute on those thoughts don't just analyze calls group discussions brainstorming actual product creation create businesses become better at photography become a better singer spiritually grow at the same time meditate daily just do deep breathing exercises the information is out there on YouTube we've done so many meditation videos on this channel anyway that's the present but you've also got to talk about the future what do you do if you're not healed completely I've healed so much from where I was at 22 there was a phase when I was


was at 22 there was a phase when I was 22 where every single meditation I would cry after those deep spiritual experiences when I realize that oh wait it's my argument with my dad that I had my childhood there the reason I feel like this then in every meditation post that I would think about it and start weeping kind of felt a little bit like a victim it wasn't his fault I don't blame him for anything he did it unknowingly but still affected a kid growing up I said cry because I said think why was I that kid and then I realized this drive that I have today this Drive that I have to succeed it wouldn't be this intense if I wasn't that same kid who went through those experiences experiences even if they were painful they've kind of made you who you are they all positive if you look at it that way yes I was born with an alpha mentality yes I had the most perfect mother in the world who gave me a lot of confidence yes


the world who gave me a lot of confidence yes I had some bad experiences which took away from my self belief but that cocktail created this intense Drive in me and this intense drive is why you guys watch me on YouTube you'll see the hard work cool I might [ __ ] up in some videos I might not create the best possible podcast sometimes I may make social media mistakes but you guys follow me because you are like you know what even if I didn't like this video I'll wait for the next one because I like his hard work I know that it's a king responsibility I have to live up to the standards I've set for myself I'm gonna keep working this hard but for the future here's my solution even today I have bouts of self-doubt where I'll call my two closest friends in the world Rajasthan Mirage very often after shoots almost once every month I'll ask Rajas dude you don't feel like I've lost my bite right I'm hustling hard right and these


my bite right I'm hustling hard right and these boys will laugh and they'll just tell me dude you know we've seen this so much over the years this is coming from that same place of self-belief for you so chill they also analytically break down Raj just as we do today be short 5 video so I think you've worked various tells me that man revenues have grown by this much percent in the last six months so please chill they'll rationalize those problems sometimes that's not enough and I turned to the person I'm dating at the time and I went emotionally sometimes I cry to that person but I get my emotional healing a bit from the romantic interest in my life and if that doesn't help I turned to my mum and she gives me some parent liliane shielding me some spiritual yarn and then to some extent I'll heal the healing always eventually just happens in my meditations I use these people to kind of bring down those doubts but the last


kind of bring down those doubts but the last 10% fades away only in my meditations I do these deep meditations for like an hour enough just put out that self-doubt fire in me and I go to sleep happy I wake up the next day happy that's what I do I may not have the biggest amount of self belief in the world but thanks for my mum I have a lot of confidence I don't know if I'll be around five years from now but I know that over the next year the runway shows gonna become one of the biggest podcasts in the world this YouTube channel and the Hindi YouTube channel are gotta keep growing Instagram LinkedIn Twitter are gonna keep growing monk entertainment is gonna keep growing in terms of numbers in terms of revenue we're probably gonna set up a new groundbreaking company everything's gonna go well over the next one year because very confident about the roadmapping I've done over the years it's never let me down my sense of strategy is strong and


let me down my sense of strategy is strong and I trust that sense of strategy that's why actions help you recover from yourself believe issues because your actions have brought you out of pools of self-doubt in the past and you're like okay wait if these same actions led me out of that self-doubt pool if I sort of repeat those same actions it'll pull me out of this self-doubt some always confident I'm very positive about the next one you and the most ambitious people especially the ones who perfectionist will always doubt themselves a little bit whether or not they've had rough childhoods that's a part of the process of striving for greatness that's the hashtag I use a lot on Instagram strive for greatness and greatness alone and if you are chasing greatness in your life you will have self-doubt so if you're someone like me who has a lot of self-doubt who has self belief issues that's okay it's a part of that greatness chase in your near future just map


that greatness chase in your near future just map it out well and if you're trying to build a really big house out there in front of you and the task of building their house is seeming really difficult don't focus on the thought of the house focus on that first brick that you're gonna put down in front of yourself just place that brick really well place it to the best of your own abilities whatever you know best try doing that really well the future takes care of itself ground yourself bring yourself right within the present because that's the only thing that will help you come out of those pools of self-doubt channelize that negative energy into actions if you liked this episode of an envier show I'm glad tell your friends share a podcast with the world and help us help Randy to recover from his self-doubt issues I hope you enjoyed today's episode like it share it drop your comments lots more solo episodes coming up


monkey chat intelligent conversations only featuring I use jests well one of India's top startup minds irrespective of the curio you've chosen for yourself I feel like every single human being should know how to run a startup how to launch a business in this country what kind of business to launch because if we really wanna be big huge money in life in India you have to learn how to run a business that's what this conversations about why should you listen to I use yes well he's what I call India's million dollar genius he runs a company called pesto tech they basically train engineering grads and engineering dropouts for three months it's kind of a night school at the end of the night school they're providing employment and the kind of pay packages they offer to their grads is just incredible he's basically revamping the education system in the country today and in doing so he's created a multi-million dollar business that's why you should be listening to this guy he's also been mentored by some other top


guy he's also been mentored by some other top startup minds in the country this is a slightly long episode trust me listen to it I know it sounds like a lot but at the end of the 55 minutes you'll agree with me this is one whose episodes which you'll come back to at some point in your future life if you're all about that startup life enjoy yourself welcome to India's most intelligent podcast with one of India's most intelligent entrepreneurs my friend I used yes well for those of you don't know I just well please just leave India now I'm getting those if you don't know I used yes well first of all go watch the video we created together on beer biceps I use as well as genuinely one of the most knowledgeable people in the entire startup stratosphere in India so I used today's podcast topic is how to start a startup from any ninh perspective okay so everything from how you actually get the first business idea to selecting your co-founders to raising money the


idea to selecting your co-founders to raising money the stage you are at you recently raised two million dollars for pesto your company for those who you don't know about pesto I'll give you all a brief introduction I feeI you just quickly explain what pesto does so pesto is a three-month program for senior engineers so we take engineers who are really talented in India but who don't have the right opportunities so we take them we give them the necessary training to bring them at par with global engineers right you'll also give them professional training they become great engineers but they to become great professionals so we we kind of like make them a great professional stand and we give them the opportunities which are global right we get them the opportunities which are there in the US so we place them as remote employees in US tech companies so this way they end up making not only much more money than they were making before but they also get the opportunity to work with so the brightest minds and


opportunity to work with so the brightest minds and work on complex problems so they get to learn more yeah and they can sit in India and work from the hope from their homes or or they can work from you know any co-working space or anything which makes them feel comfortable oh I think we brought this up in the last interview also but on an average what are the pay packages like after the three-month program so they average right now is 31 lakhs after after they graduate that's more than almost any engineering college right most engineering colleges when that's on an average and I'm sure though pay packages go up a lot also depending on how good like the student is so it's crazy duty order kind of revamping the education system in a way that's what I've always said now broke before pesto you did other jobs in the whole startup world you were mentored by people like dr. rotational you know some of the top startup minds in the country so there's a lot of kids watching this man


so there's a lot of kids watching this man what's the first step if you know yourself gr I can't ever have a boss and I want to live this startup life so what is the first step in that process would you suggest going down the same but you went down like working in a start-up and all understanding no I think like every part everyone writes their own path and every everyone's path is unique right it's like I I don't I barely know anyone who has followed you know anyways yeah there's there's no fixed guideline everyone writes their own story but I think one of the most important things is to realize that everything which you start is is at least like three to five years journey it's like you know looking backwards if I see you know not only my story but but stories of many other people who have seen it generally takes like three to five years to kind of mature until ups into whatever you're trying to do so I think that is one and the second thing is just


think that is one and the second thing is just having this attitude that I don't know in a boss right or I don't want believe me when when you're actually leading a team you have so many bosses instead of one what you're accountable to every single person because anything which you do wrong harms not only you but everyone else there right so it's very bigger responsibility so I think you should not try to be an entrepreneur just because you want to work for yourself you don't want any boss because that's like ego and that is something which definitely doesn't doesn't fly in in you know in this because you need to be humble you need to kind of you know understand where you're trying to go and not take decisions driven by your ego so I think you know don't go into that mentality here boss Nature a hundred percent I think that whole aspect of responsibility is something that you only understand once you actually become an entrepreneur and you see people coming into your office and you


and you see people coming into your office and you realize that the work you're doing is actually feeding mouths it's probably feeding you in the family's mouths and all that so you definitely feel a aspect of it but coming back to status first of all obviously you guys should know entrepreneurship is not easy that's one kind of glamorized thing that we see on Silicon Valley and there we see on TV F we think we are a must life and all very difficult I think I usually have both lost a lot of relationships in this foyer Tony we've given up a lot of things we've we don't have a social life pretty much I think it's very same yeah we meet other entrepreneurs we meet people from our industries your whole life kind of just turns into your career that's what I feel good you agreed with something like that a hundred percent I think like a lot of people tell me right I think it's it's it's kind of there are two ways to look at it one


of there are two ways to look at it one way is that you definitely make compromises like I have very few were friends and I have like you know few people who were pretty close to me or you know people I spend time with because majority of my time just goes into work and there are beacons even on weekends I mean like that's like given like if you're trying to be an entrepreneur you just like have to be there day in and day out right it's like you have to be you know all the time you have to be added it's really difficult for me to do turn off right the second thing is that I see a lot of people who come to me and say that I you don't have a life I think that's also not the right way to look at it I think I don't feel bad about that because it's it's a choice which I make because I enjoy doing this so it's not that it's too bad in that sense it's definitely hard work but then


in that sense it's definitely hard work but then it's not that you don't have a life your life is just like a part of your work your work-life integration is just closer than what it is for normal people yeah if you ask us thousand times key would you rather be in a clam or would you rather be in office I think we'd always be an office for sure because you know that those two three other is vending in a club if you actually invest that time back into building that castle that you're building for yourself you'd always pick building the castle okay and I'll tell you for me personally I have like this goal long term of really kind of creating a change in the world like that's what I know my life's motive is so either I know I'm gonna do something in animal welfare I know I'm gonna do something for Indian education and that's why I'm doing entrepreneurship because I want to earn money in order to become powerful and in order to have the resources to actually


powerful and in order to have the resources to actually change the world that's my driving force what's your internal strongest driving force I know Steve Jobs is a huge inspiration for you but on a personal level are you doing it somewhere for a big mansion that you want Monday is for the fancy cars are you doing it to become an investor invest in startups oh and you know pay it what's got pay it forward yeah like watch what your vibes in interesting you brought this up because I think a lot of people think that it's driven by your ambitions to kind of achieve materialistic goals but the way you framed it was pretty beautiful I don't think it's materialistic in any way because if it was materialistic I would have given up a long time ago or ahead because there was very difficult the journey was very difficult ends like the road there were you know simple ways when you kind of you know see that you can achieve that in different ways rather than going for what what I


in different ways rather than going for what what I ended up doing right so you're saying there's easier ways to own money in the world rather than me laughs yeah especially when you don't see you know the light in the tunnel then then definitely you know that any light kind of like helps you so you can always figure out some other ways to make money but I think my driving force has been to truly create an impact in a zero point it out that you want to could create a positive impact in the world I feel very satisfied when a person graduating on a festive it's a job so rewarding that not only his but his family's lives completely changes right and that's a very satisfied with satisfying feeling and at the same time it's also a lot of responsibility right I feel I feel very nervous when I work day in and day out that all these people are coming in we make sure that their futures are met exactly because their futures are dependent on you right and


because their futures are dependent on you right and would you say that that's a like I think your biggest russian entrepreneurship key are mary may not give as i say cuz he all care like my benefits over for sure i mean that's the goal of majority of entrepreneurs i think i know good entrepreneurs who who just want to create a better a larger impact in people's lives and I think there's no better feeling in the world than giving rather than giving back here and if you can build a business which which is creating a long lasting impact in anyone's lives right even in one person's life I think that's that's incredible yeah okay I usually for we actually talk about the process of how to start a startup wanna ask you one quick question just to give the viewers context about what entrepreneurship is like from the inside what's the worst most demeaning moment of your life that's come out of this entrepreneurial journey because we know it's rewarding both monetarily you make


we know it's rewarding both monetarily you make money of it you get success from it you feel rewarded because you're giving back to people but there are bad aspects as well which aren't spoken about I know what's like you know the worst thing that happened in this journey I mean there are there are lots of lows which you hit in your life I think I used to go hungry right like at one point like the save money initially yeah I did that a lot I used to bootstrap in using a lot of different tacks bootstrapping is basically where you don't have any money from investors and you actually all the money you make every business you're putting it back into the business yeah so go on go on so a couple of incidents I can mention there but I think like overall it has kind of affected my health a lot and that's that's something which I'm really concerned about now and it's not only you know a financing because I can afford my food now but you


because I can afford my food now but you basically build a habit of things which is really hard to improve right there's there's no time for you to do any kind of physical activity or things like that or you just don't are unable to focus on your health that much I think that might be my bad habit it's like I I constantly struggle with sleep I sleep very less and people keep telling me it's get some more sleep so I think like I need to focus a lot on that so that's like my back point I think for me physical health is not the concern because I think for the nature of my job I'm a youtuber I need to look great I have to go to the gym I have to get sleep and I have to eat well so I kind of look at eating sleeping jimang as a part of my job profile but in saying that I do feel my personal life has been like very affected because of entrepreneurship form again I know that now what I'm doing


form again I know that now what I'm doing is I'm a youtuber so my brand is me this brand image my face my body I have to take care of these things now I'm running a business I'm doing all these business II things I'm running this YouTube brand ever take care of my body and face and in that process I definitely feel my relationships have been affected I've lost like a long time but that's again like health right it's like it's it's affecting your mental health for sure yeah I'd probably say it's affecting my mental health it definitely you know okay I'll tell you what again I'm deep into yoga meditation so all that kind of gives you a backup for your mental health it helps you take every mental but you definitely take a lot of punches for example I the listen I broke up with recently I would have loved to like date that person in the long term but she's ambitious I'm ambitious we can't make time for each other in a long-term


can't make time for each other in a long-term relationship and it's like if you ask me a thousand times kr would you choose a relationship or would you choose this organization by you're paying for 35 families income 35 families food it's my responsibility to that one person or these 35 people or the two million people who are following me on beer biceps and waiting for the value adding content so I have two million and thirty-five people on one side and then I have this one person other side as much as I love that one person the responsibilities responsibility so anyway it's like difficult moments like this which kind of Life offers you process of entrepreneurship you just said it yes you have no boss right yeah I mean exactly but to two million and thirty five buses but yeah so it's it's it's an intense world man but okay let's quit the emo talk let's talk about practicality because we are heartless entrepreneurs Fisher and we're not heartless just kind of very locked in on this


not heartless just kind of very locked in on this whole career world he's 23 I'm 26 but deep in the middle of our careers I use a kid who wants to begin the startup journey wants to launch his own business what does he do where is he started I think there are different stages of entrepreneurship you need to figure out like you need to be like a different person in different stages so when there's someone starting out early in the entrepreneurial journey I think learning is is one of the biggest things I think one of the things which I did right towards that at a very early stage I said that I went out to companies and I said that I'm going to vote for you for free right for for a short time or you know if you want even for a long time and I used to work for them like 18 hours a day right and I just did it for free but in return I got to learn so much so that was I say my college education right and I think


was I say my college education right and I think that is something which which people should focus on just educating yourself with tons and tons of content and right it's reading books and work experience that's something which which is the biggest thing when it comes to entrepreneurship yeah because you learn by practical experiences and of course books right and podcasts and podcast nobody okay I'll tell you for real one big reason we started this podcast is because I've kind of just scanned the last four years of my life and I'm like okay what were those you know hacks that I used in order to learn more and for me possibly it has been vodkas have learned business podcast they've been my ambien I think my my quantum consumption more than reading or watching has been audio all right like I yeah i am like very big inaudible now i used to read books a lot earlier i think that has increased my book reading speed and at the same time there are some amazing podcast by wonderful people


there are some amazing podcast by wonderful people would you recommend something like this one my Reid Hoffman which which is one of my favorite ones and then we read often by the way is founder of LinkedIn he runs like a wonderful podcast masters of scale and there's another one by a 16z which is fun in us big fan of that what does that as well and there's another once a store if you want exposure to SAS world but I think for someone who is trying to enter the entrepreneurial journey just just reading books and trying to get exposure working at any small startup trying to understand how things work and what are the things which can be done and hustling that is like one of the most important things at an early stage figuring your way out in in a very unconventional way is what you need so bro I also feel that you know everyone knows that you're supposed to hustle but when it actually comes to hustling a lot of people back out thinking that you are


a lot of people back out thinking that you are Mary yeh may not say this hard work that I'm putting in what is the reward I'm gonna get you know like people always kind of attach a lot of value to immediate reward without understanding that one I personally strongly believe that the universe registers all your hard work even like when you've cleaned your room floor with a broom even when you cried and recorded videos on an s6 camera and put it up as your first YouTube channel videos okay okay but all that gets like recorded somewhere in the universe that's one way of looking at it too any kind of consistent hard work in the long term will teach you a lot of lessons whether it is industry based lessons or whether it's life lessons okay it's making you stronger human so don't shy away from hard work even if you think that you are if I'm doing this there's gonna be no kind of value added in my life there's gonna be no big resultant to victory


there's gonna be no big resultant to victory for me it's okay do the manner you know how they go like you should work smart not work hard that applies to people at I you should stage who will actually worked hard for like six years and you've always given priority to working hard and not smart I need to occur and the hardest-working guys I know so this is him being modest but really I you she's like one of the biggest hearts knows he's done a lot of free work for people I know you as a bro and that's why I'm gonna put this out in the podcast well a lot of people have taken advantage of you sometime in the past you weren't you'd agree to that like they've been like how this guy a manatee a he's a hard-working dude so let's use him yeah I think that's a part of the grind bro that's true you've got to go through that later on maybe you can call in favors from those same people later on


can call in favors from those same people later on maybe you know they become your close friends associates business associates this beautiful quote due to a code name of Tony of Ebola you told me this downstairs that y'all never have a bad relationship with anyone who is part of Indian entrepreneurship that your relationships with other human being should just be clean whatever level they're at so would you like to expand on that a little like your this phase of just doing free of cost work for people for sure I think like so this something which I very truly believe in it's the word is serendipity surrender pity is that think of this world as as you know or positivity I just want you building to and just assume that you just keep giving back and in some form or the other just just assume that it's going to come back at at some point or the other right so I just believe that you know as normal human beings you should not screw anyone no matter who they are at what


screw anyone no matter who they are at what stage they are you should genuinely not not do anything back to anyone or or be rude to anyone it's just because at the same time glass is for sure I mean agreed like you know I think that's just the right thing to do and I think this really adds up because if you look at the ecosystems especially they started because system and I'm and I don't mean this only from a business perspective that you know do well so that good things can come to you that's a very selfish approach and this saying do well by everyone because that's the right thing to do that's a rule of life that's the rule of life you know I'm deep into yoga and I see all our yogic theories so in the world of you got this concept of one doing good to the world you know just being a good human being all that and to giving your work your honest 100% together these two things together are called karma yoga


these two things together are called karma yoga which is like it's a form of yoga as and you will get spiritual advancement by doing these two things by being a clean human being not hurting other people at the same time being 100% into your work you do these two things and opportunities will present themselves to you a dream and and bro I think you've done your you've dropped out of college at 18 and you're like 24 now so six years and I've had a full career and both of us would strongly agree with this daddy are we oh that's all we've done we've not hurt other human being and we've given our cow honest 100% and you know a lot of people when I'm sure this happens to you as well they come to me and say you are you know damn good you've done so much in life and I'll be like bro I've been really lucky and then they'll say and then you've not been lucky don't discount your heart oh yeah and then


lucky don't discount your heart oh yeah and then I say that yeah you need to come into my shoes you need to be in my shoes and understand how many opportunities are just presented themselves to me okay and people don't buy that I'll actually put my theory on this I feel that majority of people so I was very curious when I was like younger or I would just cool people and ask them you know what what's the most important thing which you think help your majority of people the scheme of this thing that I got lucky I got lucky and I was like very confused that how can every good person be lucky right so I think there's this thing that you need to work hard to put yourself in positions where you can get lucky right so it's like there are two people in the room sitting throwing darts at at a wall right at a target now if you throw two dots versus someone else who's throwing 10 darts and you say that the person throwing 10


darts and you say that the person throwing 10 dots got lucky in a dark room we hit the target yeah and he's just through - right so it's basically putting yourself in how many positions that you can get the opportunity so which comes out of honest hard work exactly not very good immediate outcomes grea job Kirk America v emulation we had a lot of people ad monk entertainment when we had started working a lot of the early recruits a lot of you know corps members in the team who left within a couple of months because I think when you start a start-up at the early stage there is only one kind of human being who can survive in and only says startup and that's the kind of human being who's capable of eating dirt okay Abbas McEachern fake-o Vieira he lap it up he'll say okay give it to them you know I'll do it and anyone who can't whether that is a founder of a start-up whether that is a lowest level employee they


a start-up whether that is a lowest level employee they can survive in a startup because I only said sort of you need to be ready to take insults from your own parent from society from your friends from the people you're working with from the companies that are working with this insult so everywhere this doubts from everywhere there is obviously very difficult situations where you think that you are McCarver's go but the people who can survive that are true startup people yeah that's what I genuinely believe yeah it's just a new path right it's it's the path which hasn't been explored yet so I think it's just I think one of the things which people like these which which they should believe in which I kind of felt that really helped me a lot was that you have to remember that you are in it to run the marathon and not a sprint yeah and you are in it to win it right so it's like towards the end of the game you are going to win


the end of the game you are going to win it and you're running a marathon so people who think that you're running a sprint are looking for results but you know that it's going to come late but it'll come at some point right Bruce okay this is again that reality of startups but what the college kid watching this wants to learn is your way will I get my idea for the startup they want specific ideas so I'm not saying that we give people ideas but what I am asking I used yes well is bro you're very educated in the startup world give people very good industries you know which is a starting point for them so if there is ten college kid watching this give them like four or five options about industries which they should look into to begin their own startup journey interesting so I think so there are like a lot of and as I said that when you're starting out early you should always think that you're running a marathon and if you are running a marathon you should build


and if you are running a marathon you should build for future and you should build for what what are things going going to be like in next three to five years right and not what's today because by the time you build it you'll be irrelevant right and and the world is moving too fast so you should always look for the future I think for someone starting out early there are there are certain certain changes which is happening around the world one of that is remote work right the the office culture the the will coming together one is the strength of people coming together to an office space to work in a company is slowly getting away and the idea of distributed teams is coming in because some people like working from the beaches right so because of that a lot of fundamental changes are going on a 16z says SAS is going to eat the wood and that is kind of like always been benefit at SAS is software-as-a-service so building software's which can kind of help you integrate as a remote person okay


kind of help you integrate as a remote person okay as you do a team we can initiate better words right so artificial intelligence is another technology which is changing many different industries right so it's another another industry worth exploring okay but so you're saying SAS is basically like you're replacing a human being with a machine that can do the same human so SAS is basically it's a software as a service it's basically a website or an app which helps you communicate but or helps you do any kind of task better which you have to pay for you know on a monthly basis on and AI on the other hand is another technology which is completely revolutionizing many other industries right so it's like okay so E is out of real intelligence yeah but what is it really like you know for an average we never you're nosegay homonym it's basically machines are capable of thinking like human beings taking up human jobs that's the layman's understanding of it but one in 2019 where does a


of it but one in 2019 where does a I stand and to when will we actually start seeing that iRobot style world you know where where there are machines doing all your household tasks and all that obviously initially it'll just be in businesses then it will go out to consumers will go out to the general public so again you were saying your first industry to look at is this whole remote work industry so the second in US and the second industry would be maybe yeah yeah yeah maybe yeah so yeah I'll just give a brief of this so I think movies have made people think alike yeah but you know what you're not talking about ways to with what's working on the roads but that might actually happen also at some point we do have robots by the way but not humanoid robots but I think he is think of it as as you know a software which can take decisions based on data right go like Jonas from Iron Man you could you could maybe like to make it fancy but yeah that is


maybe like to make it fancy but yeah that is kind of making things way more efficient and it is kind of like reading it that sort of impact in many different industries like one cool example of that is is you know for example Facebook's our algorithm or tick-tock right it's like one of the best examples right oak has any algorithm in built for sure it stands the user it's actually one of the best you know AI social companies and the like as an if you're using tick-tock for a while so you're using it for a day so tick-tock understands you wait this person likes this kind of content yes and then that they'll push push you more of like on like that and then we have in the mainstream that's why I stands right now that it's software's it's like things that basically improve the experiences of apps or services that's true and there is I mean self-driving cars or thing now and all those things are there now what's happening what was interesting is that Elon Musk's company


what was interesting is that Elon Musk's company called neural Inc just launched a news thing where they said that they're going to integrate machines with human brain of starting next year okay so that that'll be interesting like so have emotions and feelings oh no humans Oh humans will have they're going to implant something in your brain okay using which you'll be able to control things like devices that's what that's what they exactly yeah yeah that that will be exciting to see I mean it's of course in the news and you know we're all curious about that when do you think like this will be a reality say 2025 2030 very soon for sure so neural link is supposed to get launched next year 2020 right it's like the future is huge in this it's happening at a very fast pace right so it's crazy another another thing which which I feel pretty excited about is AR and VR I think that is something which is augmented reality and virtual argument is vit and virtually idea


reality and virtual argument is vit and virtually idea it's like if you've seen like people with huge headsets that's virtual reality I think AR is more exciting at this point but er is basically you're taking your say snapchat camera or you're taking on camera and you basically put it on this table you'll be able to see a bunny rabbit on the table or whatever things like that yeah different outlook to the fake facial hair or something yes yes you can you can yeah that's the social media aspect of what they are can do what are the other applications or something like there's a very cool company Chanu from Israel which got acquired by another one in SF so what they do is that they basically help you buy furniture so just imagine you can pull off your camera look at your entire room and select the furniture from the app which looks good in your room and then buy all of it at once so that's like another cool application of you know how AR can help you buy furniture for


you know how AR can help you buy furniture for example or clothes or basically anything that I think you'd put at ease and use and yeah another friend of mine Meghna is working on a mirror which is basically you can stand in front of a mirror and you can try any kinds of jewelry right so that's like again you get to know exactly he can say the car yeah it's all what other industry is like poppin would you would you okay I'll come and do one we obviously keep talking about influencer marketing outs like the biggest thing which is pretty much what you see youtubers do you know when need to brand news on our YouTube this massive money in it there is digital marketing because every single business in the world is like I know moving to digital now and everybody needs a marketing strategy another huge industry that you can get into both as a provider of the service and actually kind of utilizing this service for yourself is this whole concept of personal branding which is basically


this whole concept of personal branding which is basically okay you know your user as well you run pesto but at the same time you are running an average as well brand which is that you're an entrepreneur who is running a company called pesto and then you just put up your real life on Instagram you put have your real life on you do you put up the stories of pesto and say that listen I mentored them that becomes I used is all personal branding so we've already seen a lot of personal branding coaches today and again going forward personal branding is going to be a crucial requirement for many entrepreneurs for many motivational speakers there's going to be a lot of applications of this any other industry that's coming to your head I think role of industries are the quantum space in general in India is is very exciting God I know content you're saying you aw do I think booth I think all use - yeah a podcast but I think what has happened in India since last


I think what has happened in India since last two to three years with with Geo coming in putting so many people on on the internet engine right and that is kind of given rise to this entire point in industry which I believe is exciting not only for India but but for the world and that's like you know what and I think the barrier to entry solo in that that that's like something which youngsters can kind of like explore early on in their careers and if nothing they'll just learn a bunch of things in the con space like that's what if I lose my job tomorrow I know that I've got so many skills that I'll be able to get absorbed by some marketing company some digital company but I won't because I take care of my career okay so that was basically you're kind of of brief amount of options for you guys to choose from you know so I use says that find your own path I personally say that what worked for me was actually working in a business I


worked for me was actually working in a business I worked in an old school business which is my uncle's engineering Factory and that taught me one crucial lesson that any business in the world is doable it just boils down to common-sense decisions and you will be able to create anything you know like a lot of people for example I'm sure that when you start pesto you just had this idea give weight maybe I'll spread education maybe you know educate people and then we'll be able to create a business model out of that pesto didn't exist at one point in reality but you had that you know you had the balls basically to think that how I'll be able to do this and then you kept executing on it you kept doing things and then one day pesto get to build it gets a two million the funding all that a fantastic TV show that I'd recommend is the show called Silicon Valley so it's the American version of pictures it's one of the shows that's incredibly funny and so


of the shows that's incredibly funny and so lil stupid has got a lot of humorous humor all that but at the same time it's extremely educational I can teach you a lot you know you you understand how the whole startup or it works again but that's the American startup world let's come back to the Indians audible I used to start a business in India once you have your idea okay say suppose you've worked at a company you understood ki okay maybe a business challeng um then what is your next step you know how do you actually start so I'll just kind of they'll talk more about finding the idea or I think that time is gone it was the internet bubble in early 2000s when you were in that dot-com bubble where you had to kind of you know do this so create like you know do booking for what is so you create like you know XCOM which which does that right so I think that time of where idea was a thing is long gone so we need to kind


a thing is long gone so we need to kind of stop thinking from idea perspective because it's more about how do you create more value for the customer problems problem solving perspective now when it comes to problem solving perspective people start looking for problems right that if you can find a problem then I'm going to solve it and then customers will pay for it I think that's also a wrong approach which which at least by my experience which I had I kind of think about it this way that I and I remember this quote from Ford right the founder of for the car company I said that if I ask the customers what they want then the post then the people would have asked for a faster horse I decided to create a card because I there was just horse carriages exactly so if you look for the problems you're going to look at it from everyone's perspective but startups are usually built in a way where you try to make things more efficient try to find better ways of doing things and one day you


find better ways of doing things and one day you find so much better way of doing something that the previous view of doing it see looks like a problem Wow right for example Paytm happened right but recharge in your phone wasn't that difficult any pun well I would do that right outside your house we would also accept cash yeah so it was easy it wasn't that difficult right but then after Padian came in it certainly looks like a problem yeah right so it's like you should look to make things much more efficient and there's a delta for theory bicone ultra which is which is pretty amazing says that if you look at the previous way of doing things give it a reading from zero to ten then look at the new way of doing things give it a reading from zero to ten if the delica between both these doing things is more than four then you have found something which is of value which will make money which will eventually make money yeah so you basically need to figure out something which creates value


you basically need to figure out something which creates value and if you're creating value your customers will pay for it the value has to be there beautiful I think that's what you need to look fun again that will come by kind of keeping your eyes and ears open also two problems to what's going around keep your mind active listen to these business style podcasts because yeah go on I'll just mention something here that uh what what you should look for is something which you deeply care about I mean not not for a problem but for a cause which means you stand for and then you try to figure out a way to do something for them for example like I deeply care about education yeah and because I went through that I had that background I suffered through that you know semester when I really want to drop out and I didn't really feel good in college nobody was allowing me to I want to learn engineering but I couldn't end all of that right so I feel that I was really deeply emotionally vested in two


that I was really deeply emotionally vested in two and I can I have not emotionally connect with all the engineers like when I'm meter or developer and I feel like bro you're a brother doing you know I have that connect and I'm very passionate about that which eventually related into a business exactly and it kind of like made me hold on to this in the toughest times when it was very easy to give up so finding that emotional cause so I think adding the world's biggest business is generally what they call Purpose Driven that your purpose was to like affect the education system in a way create this parallel version of Education parallel version of employment anyway coming back to how to actually start our business grow in this country what are the logistics like what is the paperwork required so I'll tell you how visa red monkey we actually hired an agent to just do all of it for us like we didn't we didn't take up any of the official work we knew what's happening we were just


work we knew what's happening we were just aware kiha these are this the paperwork required you need to give a pan card on our card whatever you need to fill it up once your business is set up then you understand a little bit about the business world that what is the meaning of proprietorship what is the meaning of Private Limited you know things like that what is the meaning of equity equity means your share so even we are starting a business tomorrow if we are 50/50 partners he owns 50 percent equity I own 50 percent equity so there's these little business heat terms now you understand once you actually dive in a lot of people fear these business leaders thinking that you are my guess is he come girl you know it's way beyond me but once you actually get to it it's very simple so what was your part where you had to actually start your own then now yeah I remember that during my college days I used to like sell projects take out when my clients would ask me for


projects take out when my clients would ask me for an MoU or or any of the other contract names I didn't know I used to act like I am understanding what they say talking about it's like okay I'll get that delivered and then I would just go back and google it and try to like create a contract whether that I think it's it's fairly simple if you just do your research on Google you'll get to know about it if you really want to understand a twosie off start up all the legal terms there's a book which I highly recommend every entrepreneur to read it's called venture DS by Brad Feld amazing book talks about entire you know stuff everything which you need to know as an entrepreneur to be able to talk to lawyers even so I think that's that's the biggest one but I think when you're starting out early it's it's not your job really like your job is to find value your job is to create on the business side exactly and and wasting a lot


the business side exactly and and wasting a lot of times in into getting you know into complexities of these things hurts you more yeah so I think the simplest way is to either establish a proprietary form or a partnership form which takes like you know less than a couple of days it's it's pretty quick and you can basically start the business get a bank account and start getting clients I think that's the quickest way to started once you figure out that you have found something which you really want to do and you want to make this yeah you know it's like a proper company and maybe Bruce once a night or things like that then you should go ahead and establish your private limited fund a private limited company initially do your basics set up the business make some money like sure that's the whole huge mistake that you see so many Indian entrepreneurs make which is that they don't focus on profitability they don't focus on okay how do I run this lambda as and they kind of lose a lot of


lambda as and they kind of lose a lot of money oh they spend it where it shouldn't be spent they're not careful about the cash flows so firstly even if you want to raise money going forward from investors you need to show them that you are you know I'm capable of making money for this decimal so what will you all which means like from in pesto did you invest your own money as kappa trip but i mean so in so your all the time bankrupt initially anchor of their that's where your struggle period was right but used to go hungry yeah so you basically invest everything which you kind of which you make so it's like that's the bootstrapping process you go forward with that when you have some money you of course invest whatever you have and when you look for investors i think like there was a research by by a company called idea labs which which is an accelerator based in the US it said that there are five top reasons why companies fail and finding money was the least


reasons why companies fail and finding money was the least important one of those right so companies don't fail because of funding right a reason being that investors are in the business of making money as long as your business can make money there will be investors because they're on the business of making money right the only thing is that venture capital works in a different way like you have to have the potential to make lots of money in long term okay we'll get to VC venture capital all that later okay but right now let's come back to how money so I give them the pesto story if you told me and I hope that it's okay that I'm putting it out on yes initially basically you're a fantastic coder as well like and you I mean you're good coder you're capable of doing I could make some websites yeah so you you made you made a website for people and you basically made your initial money on pesto as a business you earned money by giving out your services as a coder oh no


by giving out your services as a coder oh no so when I used to call that thing that was a consulting company before pesto and that was like my first company when I used to kind of scroll a bunch of websites and make some money bootstrap using that I think I did a bunch of other startup projects which didn't work out by the time I started pesto I found a coder who is who is just an insane coder yeah andrew is my co-founder he is my partner and pesto so he's a really really amazing coder and also a amazing person based in a self now so what we did is that we saw a huge gap between Indian engineers and u.s. engineers right and huge pain gaps so that's when we decided that we are going to do some tech consulting anyways forms for use forms Wow so that's how we started pesto like we saw best to start with the permission of just making money like you know it's like we were we were just tired of lot of


like we were we were just tired of lot of projects and we just decide that you're going to make some money and we want to make money quick so we did consulting we made some money in over the next like three to seven months and once we had made money both of us were like startup people we want to create value create impact and also add value to people so once we had money we decided to do something which which is actually valuable which is creating impact which what what which is what you're not doing right now yes and it the thought process was pretty simple right we were hiring engineers in India and we were placing them in US for 5x their salaries right but we realize that our business is based on artificially keeping their salaries low that's how you make money and we thought that the entire focal point of this entire engagement is the engineer isn't himself right or herself but they are not winning we are winning but because we are making money the companies are


winning but because we are making money the companies are winning they're getting talent but these engineers don't win this is weird because that's the focal point so we decided that you are going to come up with a model to make a genius win right so we decided to come up with this concept of a pesto where we said that we are going to give you everything which which we needed to to kind of make you compatible with a company in u.s. and then after three months of training we'll replace you as a remote employee you won't have to pay us anything upfront so it's free of cost upfront and we'll take 17% of your salary for next three years yeah so people end up making like 5x of what they were making before right so it's like a win-win for everyone now and I'm sure they're also grateful like other than the fact that like you know you're making money from like their job but they themself alike yeah they are I mean we have been like lucky to


they are I mean we have been like lucky to have wonderful people around and we genuinely wanted to help them irrespective of you know what situation we are in we have come across multiple situations where we didn't have to help people but we kind of stepped out of the way out of our way to kind of go on to help people who maybe don't even make it to the beste program yeah but our goal is to just help these five million engineers right we have helped only 50 till now which is like some 0.00001% so it's like a long long way to go but we are all in to help all these people and now the final part of this podcast which is the V sees the venture capitalists I actually think we should do another whole episode on this but so in today's episode is very briefly in layman's terms can you explain this whole process of raising money why a company even needs to raise money in the first place how do they raise money the dangers of


first place how do they raise money the dangers of it the benefits of it the classic success stories like Facebook and Amazon that have been written out of this whole raising money game so what is this whole world so well I'll first explain who are we see so venture capitalist I think it's really important to understand who they are and where they come from the understanding their psychology with which they invest in because that kind of gives you more perspective into analyzing yourself whether whether you're ready for funding or not or whether you should even go for when she capital or not because some businesses are just not fit for when you capitulate and they and I see that they keep pushing for it but it's just not fit and it's not a bad thing yeah do we know the nature of it's just a nature of a business right so I think so I was with one of people admire of nature who was running matrix right so he said something which which really kind of stuck with me said we are in


really kind of stuck with me said we are in the business of we are the riskiest business right so understand that VCS come from the standpoint that they're they're investing in the most risky asset class ever what is this risky asset class this is investing in equity in a developing market which is not matured yet right in your inner developing market and you're investing in startups in India anyone can get rescued right so it is very risky to invest in that now when you look at VC is the way they invest is that if they are investing in n number of companies they they know that majority of them chances of them failing it's very high right because because of the nature right now they need to look for those one or two companies which are going to win right and if there are only few companies like let's say two or three companies which are going to win out of ten then they're not only need to win for themselves but also for everyone else who failed right


themselves but also for everyone else who failed right they need to cover up the losses for the investors and and also make money for for those investors right that means you need to win big and when you need to win big on those fewer investments that means that every business which you invest in as a venture capitalist the potential of that business has to be very high right so that's that's like a basic understanding the core the core idea is that investors will always look for businesses with scalability yes it can be scaled up almost infinitely though agree yeah if not infinitely then at least the addressable market has to be big enough yeah for the company to become huge they basically look for businesses that can capture the maximum amount of customers or users yeah I think like one good way to look at it is just to look at the market itself yeah and how it's maturing and one of the best markets to be in is the market which is growing at a rapid pace like it may not be


growing at a rapid pace like it may not be that huge yet but which is growing at a massive all is recorded so one version of that would be India like in there's a market that's growing very fast but in terms of industries all the industries are you named like probably AI yeah education with education and what K is like right now crazy that is the idea from the VC side of things the venture capitalist side of things what about the business side of things why do you and me need money from VCS so I think from a business point of view you need to kind of think what kind of business which you are trying to build right if if you don't need these humans that's completely fine but it's like I can build the company in a profitable way and survive for whatever timeline and and be happy it that that would be my personal choice but my mission was to change lives of five million engineers we have done only 58 right and we want to take that to five


58 right and we want to take that to five million right how do you do that so for that in order to kind of expand your kind of business in terms of the scale which you are trying to work in terms of impact which you're trying to create and in terms of work because you're trying to expand that kind of taking money to kind of find your cash flows or or you know expanding to those you're basically taking steroids in them in in the form of money because you could say that I think like so there's this thing called product market fit yeah once you figure out what is it which you're going to create which is going to add value to the customers that's when you go for raising funds and only after that the steroids will work the case if you dig it in the when you're not mature enough then then you'll have the bad effects yeah probably screw you up yeah what what Silicon Valley no silicon why that's the one thing you know I gained from it I'm like


thing you know I gained from it I'm like oh I say we both just talked to you about the ugly side of startups and all that is real that stuff happens yeah so but for Indian startups you know we're raising money from Indian VCS and all this like is there a big danger of you crashing and burning like if you're not working with the correct kind of human beings or maybe you're taking too much money from one particular person or you're giving out too much equity to one particular person there is a lot of different dangers right like in this whole world so what are some of like the top dangers that you should look for raise money for your startup I think like it's it's overhyped little bit like because you just people watch too much movies Emily yeah I mean it's not that bad I mean people by default generally are nice it's really it's really difficult to come across back people but in business there are terms which you should be aware of which which you


terms which you should be aware of which which you should kind of like be cautious off and one thing I truly believe in is that I really really want to work with people who you enjoy working with because it's it'll be a long journey and you don't want to kind of be in the room in the hardest times the people whose faces you don't like so you basically want to hurt the people who you like working with it no rule in the media world oh I wouldn't I won't say it's just a vibe like you know some someone can go along really well with you but not too well with me right it's it's like you need a vibe with that human you need to buy with those people right it's like you need to mean they're kind of people so I think choosing the people is it's really important but when it comes to terms I think there are certain terms are we there are a couple of things I think there are certain terms which it should be kind