Abhishek Patil

Co-founder

Founder, GrowthX® | Growth Leader at CRED, Dunzo | Building growth leaders for India

I grew up in a remote town in Maharashtra, went to a Tier 2 college & took a lot of unconventional routes to land up a one-way flight to Bangalore— all of it for the right opportunity.

Opportunity to build something that I truly find joy in & want to spend a considerable portion of my life. Sure - like most of my inner circle of friends, I was ambitious, but none of it would have happened if Bengaluru had not given me the “Opportunity”.

I’m grateful to be able to live my dream, build products that impact so many lives over the last couple of years & be part of the India story. 

Currently, I am building GrowthX, a community that helps you be around people who are smarter than you, learn key skills & crack your next breakout role. Over 5,000 vetted professionals from companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Jio, HUL, ITC, Coca-Cola, and more trust GrowthX to grow their careers.

The product is simple — you spend face-time with vetted people online & through IRL events, learn key skills through weekly live learning expert-led sessions, & you get everything you need to crack your next job role.

If you read until this point, do check out www.growthx.club & tell me if we are/ aren’t doing a good job at communicating what we do :)

Founder

A large part of my work involves curating new members, defining the learning experience and getting founders and growth leaders to accelerate their companies & careers. 

GrowthX is a social learning community of founders, product & marketing leaders. Our members come from top internet companies such as Google, Stripe, Airbnb, Netflix, Razorpay, Freshworks, CRED, Flipkart, Canva, Meesho, OYO, Bloomberg, Zoho, Cisco, Unacademy, Khatabook, Smallcase, Udaan & 1800+ others. 

If the ability to solve any growth problem or exponential outcomes is what you chase, GrowthX might be the right tribe for you.

One word to describe this brunch - curation. Genuinely curious people, tinkering with AI & great Delhi spring ♥️ 

GrowthX's AI & Growth Leaders brunch opened conversations that went beyond AI & Business - the lines blurred & the guard was down. It became a safe space with people who believe in winning the right way.

Can't thank you enough Mohammed Sufiyan Sait, for helping us curate it. For Delhi people, this beautiful cafe is near the Sundar Nursery.

P.S. Moments from other events, strolls we took during the AI summit in Delhi.

GrowthX® | Udayan | Jivraj | Sajith | Sudarshan | Suhas | Shashwat | Sumedha | Rajnish | Anupam | Bhasker | Dev | Yash & more.

Building A Media House at GrowthX

I started working when I was 14.

When I was 17, I created content that produced massive ROI for my manager.
He ended up buying me a fully decked-up personal computer. But, I resigned.

Since then, I've worked as a Brand Manager, Content Strategist and Consultant in previous roles.
Some notable milestones would be:

1. Headed the Marketing and Content Team for a B2C company. Made YouTube a recurring source of revenue, doubled lead generation via Instagram, and took Pinterest's reach to 2M+ organically.
2. Developed and Created 10+ videos and reading materials for an online self-paced course for an ed-tech company within a month's timeline.
3. Rebranded a stock broking company with deliverables like Market Research, Ideal Customer Persona, Content Market, Launch Plan, Content Buckets and Social Media Calendar.
4. Implemented Notion and automation tools like Notion and Mailerlite in an organisation, therefore, increasing their productivity and optimizing workflows.
5. Worked with brands like Hard Rock Cafe, Bengal Rowing Club, and Rotaract Club among others to create video and graphic-based content.
6. Led teams of designers, writers and editors for college fests and national events like Kisme Kitna Hai Dum.

Harshvardhan Agarwal 🚀

The last 4 years at GrowthX® have been insane, to say the least. Today when I move on, I can’t help but reflect on the incredible journey:

- Throw yourself in the deep end. I was hired to build a media company. Sounded exciting, but I had zero clue how to do it. The sleepless nights. The anxiety. The imposter syndrome. Its insane. But, in hindsight, it all makes sense.

- Early team sets the bar. It’s very clear to me that the first 10 people don't only set the product, but the company’s culture. Ours felt like a cult.

- The one getting the most feedback is winning. Going all in scary, I get it. But the compounding you gain from feedback is something people playing it safe will never understand.

- Failures = insights. Early startups are brutal because failure feels personal, like you've let the team down. But, the counterintuitive truth is failures give you the most insights. Still getting better at this.

- Your people are beyond your colleagues. A sports team has the best athletes. The more you look around, the more you realise you're surrounded by the best in the game. This relationship has to outlast the daily hustle.

- All the pain is in the short term. If you zoom out long enough, small spikes & dips don’t matter. All bad decisions are taken with short term thinking. But this is easier said than done.

- All the gold is in thinking big. Think big, big, big. Think beyond your OKRs. The competition is seldom with people around you, its with the world beyond.

- Execution beats everything. Shippers beat thinkers any day. Just get it out there. There’s no gold in strategies that don’t go live. People who ship, win. Deploy, deploy, deploy.

Distribution wins. Great people win. Pressing publish wins. Spending more time away from the chessboard than making random moves, works.

Abhishek & Udayan took a bet on me that wasn’t warranted, they didn’t have to. I actually came with negative pedigree. So I can’t help but look back with immense gratitude.

I am now embarking on something insane. Feels like entering a warzone. I again feel like the newbie in the room. All good things. More on this soon 💙

Harshvardhan Agarwal

I can't get through a birthday without reflecting on my mom & everything she’s done to make them happen. Some story:

Mom & I left my paternal home when I was 8. She rose up to the occasion to bring me up single handedly.

This naturally meant I spent very little time everyday with her because she was in office 12hrs+/day.

So birthdays meant one simple thing: I would get to spend the day with her. I would shamelessly ditch school, wake up late & tag along to go to her office.

I’ve always jokingly said that I’ve grown up in offices. Because, without fail, all my birthdays would be with mom in her office trying to get out early.

She would never take an off day, so the routine was simple. Reach office early morning. Have nice breakfast somewhere. Mess around with her colleagues in the afternoon. Have amazing lunch. Then help her with whatever is needed to finish work, so she could leave early.

Whatever time was left in the day would be our time together. I cherished this the most. We would do absolute random stuff. Go to a mall, arcade, dinner. Place didn’t matter. Time did.

She would also always go beyond her means to get me things that were way out of budget. That’s still the case today. I can’t seem to like affordable things :D

I grew up with a workaholic mom. Some of that fuelled by our situation, some of it just her ambition. But, all my birthdays, without fail, are her giving to me. I couldn’t be more grateful.

You only get feedback when you ship. There’s absolutely no gold in debating & sitting on things for a long time. Top performers are great at setting a massively high bar for what gets shipped + deploying at super speeds. Very few people are able to crack it. But those who do, they are a class apart.

Looking for an extremely high quality video editor to work with me. Some non-negotiables:

1/ Supremely high AI quality bar.
2/ Deep motion design nuance.
3/ Gets granular design + sfx.
4/ Thinks in hooks + AVD.
5/ Thinks format-first.

You'll build a reach + brand engine. Be in a place that truly gets content scale + brand nuance. You'll chase views & ship ultra fast.

No hiring links. Please DM your best work to me. Share this/tag the person who you think fits the bill.

God bless you if you're still finding ways to not use AI for your content. This is insane stuff 🤯

One of the industries really adopting AI video in the US? Real estate.

Properties are now advertised like products on social feeds & AI enhancements help them stand out.

AI is being used to bring properties to life & to imagine what could be done in a space.

This format + insight is supremely replicable in almost every category.

Creating content is a crazy rollercoaster to be on. Highs & lows happen literally every day. One day you're celebrating a viral video, the other day you're questioning everything. Here are some learnings for people riding the content wave:

1/ Have distance from metrics: upload & forget for the night. Don't look at instant metrics on the night of uploading the video. Its tomorrow's problem, good or bad.

2/ Think in formats: god bless if you're trying to come up with novel content ideas every day. All the gold is in thinking formats that are scalable & shareworthy.

3/ Build an RCA culture: the worst situation is not knowing the "why" behind a high performing video. If you don't know what's working/breaking, you can't replicate it. Building a culture of analysis & going deep is the way to go.

4/ Consume, consume, consume: there's genuinely no creation without consumption. Spending 70-80% of your time consuming & figuring out nuances of what works is a great idea. Execution becomes 100x smoother after.

5/ Feedback is not personal: creatives take feedback personally, and its understandable. But, the only thing distribution guarantees is feedback. Feedback is privilege. Imagine publishing without absolutely no reaction. You don't want that in life.

Lets crack it.

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