An engineer by education, I got an opportunity to work in the startup ecosystem and fell in love with the energy, drive and the passion people have while building things. Have been hooked ever since. I started my career interning with a small marketing agency in Delhi. One of the most important things I learnt working with them was the getting things done attitude. Learning operations, sales and importance of tech here, I decided to continue working in startups. Post this experience, I tried my hand at a socio-political organisation, Swarajneeti, with the vision of translating business like performance measurement of political parties on their election manifestos. Here, I was to work with people from different domains, all working pro-bono and contributing part time. My brief yet rich experience here helped me get better at team management. My first real job was at Gigstart, an artist marketplace, to book artists for any event. Here I was given the responsibility to manage the relationship with the artists and bring newer artists/talent on-board working with us. We managed to scale the company to doing Rs. 10 L worth of gigs a month, but soon realised that the business might remain seasonal for sometime in the future. With this in mind, the team pivoted and started a new business of medicine delivery at home, Pluss App. Here I worked very closely with the tech, product and understood business analytics. When I decided to move on, I came across UrbanClap (now Urban Company) which was in a similar domain but had a much larger horizontal business. I took up the role of Category Manager, and contributed in building a few core businesses. I then moved to one of UrbanClap's core businesses, Home maintenance and Repairs, and then to the central strategy team for this vertical. After a lot of success in this team, I was given the responsibility of the launch of UrbanClap's first territorial expansion exercise. I launched Chandigarh to become the fastest growing city in UrbanClap's history. UrbanClap's experience taught me the most in the last 4.5 years. They helped me understand the customer a lot better, helped me value the data and data driven decision making. I want to keep building businesses and product in the future as well.