Flexiple

TL;DR: “Your 1-stop solution to hire dream developers for full-time or contract roles.”

Flexiple is the first company we set out to build. It has been a long journey of ~7 years where we began immediately after graduating from IIM Ahmedabad and have bootstrapped our company to $3 million in revenue.

The tech hiring industry is so complex and fun that we are still enjoying the process of continuously innovating to build a world-class talent hiring solution.

GOAL
We spend every minute each day to build the best tech talent network in the world. We are & will be the best way for companies to hire dream developers for any type of role.

METRICS
- $6 million talent payments
- 72 Hrs Average time-to-hire
- 200,000+ engineers in our network

Co-Founder

Side projects

TL;DR: “Powering our dreams with ambitious side hustles”

The side projects started for fun & experimentally while we were trying to build our other companies. As we got better at certain skills such as content production, SEO and building products, we realized that these could actually be monetized and so we did!

GOAL
The goal in the short-term is to fund buildd with the money we make from these side projects. Long-term we want these side projects to be a way to hone certain skills of ours further and also as solid cash cows.

METRICS
- 1st Niche website: $180,000 (~INR 1.4 crores)
- Private ads: $60,000 (~INR 50 lakhs)
- Affiliate revenue: $12,000 (~INR 10 lakhs)

buildd

TL;DR: “The best & most fun way to learn a business skill for free.”

We love building companies and well, the entire world of business. buildd is just our way of expressing that love :P.

Learning has become boring and painful. That will be changed with buildd where you can learn any business skill as if you were playing a game.

GOAL
buildd’s goal is to help a million people each year with their learning goals. Soon, when people want to learn a skill, their friends will ask them whether they are going to “buildd it”.

METRICS
- 100,000+ downloads
- 1000+ hours of content
- 100s of gamified learning paths

J.P. Morgan

Received offers to join three different teams at J.P. Morgan IB (London). Consistently a top-rated analyst of my batch.

Consumer & Retail Team
- Sell side for €550mn of a tobacco company, preparation of the teaser and information memorandum
- Valuation analyses for strategic alternatives of a European pharma company with market cap >$500mn
- Involved in deals and preparation of pitch books, valuation models and other marketing materials
- Extensive use of financial modelling, eg. DCF, trading & transaction comparables, Leveraged Buy-out analysis

M&A Team
- Sole analyst creating roadshow content for 10 European corporates on synergies from M&A with US firms
- Identified investment, strategic and acquisition opportunities by analysing prevalent M&A trends
- Maximised synergies generated by M&A structuring through collaboration with various industry teams

Analyst

Sabre Holdings

Analysis, development, improvement and usage of multiple Sabre software products to provide solutions to the clients in the airline industry.

Intern - Business Analyst

Started my journey as an Investment Banker working on M&A transactions including a €550 million acquisition.

Then, I decided to walk away from my high-paying IB job.

Joined the top MBA school in India - IIM Ahmedabad - and realized typical jobs are not for me.

Quit the placements and began building my startup instead with two of my batchmates. That was the beginning of Flexiple - a 1-stop solution to hire dream developers for full-time or contract roles.

Along with Flexiple, I’m also building buildd - the best & most fun way to learn a business skill for free.

Just fallen in love with building businesses and I keep playing around with many side projects.

My goal is to build my companies to $100 million in revenue.

My current results:
→ Flexiple: $3 million in annual revenue
→ buildd: 100,000+ downloads (to monetize soon)
→ Side projects: $250,000 in annual revenue

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