E172 - Ankur Warikoo Unfiltered On Money, Education Business, Content Creation & Life | ISV

Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

Ankur Warikoo is the legendary entrepreneur and content creator having more than 10Mn followers across social media. He is a celebrated entrepreneur who built Nearbuy in India and is now building a profitable, bootstrapped venture doing 27Cr+ in revenues every year. He is a content creator with more than 100Mn impressions with his posts every year, impacting lives at scale. He is also a bestselling author having written 3 books that have been widely read across the world. He is currently building an Education venture that we are all very excited about and cannot wait to see the success of! It was lovely chatting with him on all things money, life, business, content creation and much more. Stick around till the end for a great conversation!! 0:00 : Preview: 0:58 : Introduction 02:28 : On balance & Life 07:47 : How to take control of your time 12:10 : Risk-Taking Ability 20:17 : Making Decisions 24:03 : Entrepreneurship in 2009 33:23 : Celebrating Funding 34:48 : Indian Business Evolution 43:58 : Why Ankur isn't building a VC Backed Company 51:58 : Dark sides of Business 58:49 : The Content Creation Journey 01:05:28 : Selling via Content 01:09:24 : Content Creation or Business 01:12:09 : How he Deals with Negativity 01:19:54 : ONE Thing to Appeal to Audience 01:23:51 : Journey as an AUTHOR 01:28:52 : Building Education Empire 01:30:36 : How He Built an Educational Business 01:38:56 : Rapid Q&A 01:40:55 : Thoughts on Conventional Path 01:43:20 : 3 Things to Avoid in the Entrepreneurial journey 01:45:04 : Message to Ankur’s Older Self 01:46:38 : Outro