I was born and raised in Hyderabad, India - Mahesh Soppari When I turned 20, my parents gave me a Windows desktop for my birthday. They caught me playing video games on it and challenged me to find a way to make my desktop creative. During that time, I had a persistent idea in my mind about how I could utilize my desktop to make money. However, I was often preoccupied with playing Counterstrike 2.0. After I graduated I worked for a company called Sitel India Private Ltd as a customer support executive. Later, I worked as an IT recruiter for Access Global Solutions. However, due to some health issues, I had to quit my job. Afterwards, I attempted to start a dropshipping business called Kidsra Educational Toys on Shopify with an investment of $500. However, my lack of experience and absence of guidance resulted in significant losses. As a result, I decided to gain valuable experience by seeking employment opportunities within the startup industry. My First $5 My mission was always to run a successful online business. After leaving my job in 2016, I collaborated with a startup company called Paymitime India Pvt Ltd as a Digital Marketing Executive. As we know, startups can be unpredictable, and I undertook all the roles and responsibilities. I got involved in HR recruiting, as I had prior experience in it, and traditional marketing. I wanted to learn everything about how a startup operates, and even though my pay was minimal, I stuck with the company and gave my best. In 2019, I started making money online from a platform called Fiverr and I remember how i made my first $5 online, but as I was working for a company, I didn't concentrate much on it. Unfortunately, the startup company I was working for shut down due to lack of funds. A group of people with a similar mindset then started a company called Brings Local Delivery App, where I attended an interview and got selected. We made around 50,000 app installations with a very good number of orders per day. Suddenly, the pandemic hit in 2020, and everything got shut down. I was newly married, and my wife was pregnant, but company didn't pay us due to the pandemic and lack of funds. I was in a difficult situation because I needed to visit hospitals for my wife's hospitalization. At that moment, I realized that having a primary job meant nothing to me. In a defining moment, I turned down job offers. I didn't want to be the knight in somebody else's castle; I wanted to be the king of my own. Action Taker I immediately started working on Fiverr again and made around $400 in just a month. My vision was completely different, and I invested all the money into affiliate marketing. I remember how I made my first $996 from single product within a day this money helped me for my misses hospitalization . And My idea was to show people how to make money. So, I made videos and posted them on a YouTube channel I had, followed by no one. To my surprise, strangers took an interest in my videos, lots of them. I thought, "This is crazy," and in April of 2020, I registered a new YouTube channel called Makedirect by Soppari and started making videos. I then started a startup on my own as a sole proprietor called Critaudit.com and generated around $12,000 within six months with affiliate marketing. Now, I am an author of a book called "Soloplanner Recession Proof," Collabig.com and I became disillusioned with the agency model as we were supporting other clients to build their business. I innovated something better. "We're going to teach our clients and students to fish for themselves. No more total dependency on us. It robs them of controlling their own destiny."So we began teaching our secret sauce. Our clients loved it because they could take back control over their marketing, the lifeblood of their business – but with our help and expertise guiding the way.At the age of 26, I started with a YouTube channel back in 2019, and today I'm blessed with a team of five and a company doing over thousands of dollars a month. Not bad for a decade.When we help clients and students take marketing into their own hands.