Now helping founders and business owners implement AI – one business at a time.
I’ve been building online since the late ’90s, when the internet still felt raw, unpredictable, and full of possibility. In my late teens, I built my first paid website, and that early experience shaped how I still work today: stay curious, move fast, and focus on what actually creates value.
I trained as an engineer, did an MBA in technology, and started my career in management consulting. From there I moved into marketing and growth roles – first at Cleartrip, followed by Jio, then at Hotstar – where I lead large scale consumer aquisition and retention campaigns. Along the way successfully build and monetized a portfolio of 50+ web brands across multiple countries and languages.
I co-founded The Bombay Skin Clinic, a successful award winning aesthetic medical brand where I led growth strategy through the day-to-day work of scaling, creating stable systems, and driving customer acquisition over time. I also started Mindful Comic, which has gradually became a platform for talking about AI through storytelling and humour.
Then there was Ruhgu, a mental health startup I genuinely believed in. It didn’t go the way I hoped. But you learn different things from failure than you do from success – about timing, about your own judgment, about what it really takes to keep going.
Today I operate Velocity Forest, where I help founders and business owners implement AI into how their businesses actually operate. Not in theory – in the real, day-to-day work of running a company.
Beyond Work
I’ve followed the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda for over a decade. Meditation isn’t something I do on the side – it’s how I operate. It shapes the decisions I make, how I work with people, and how I stay grounded through the inevitable ups and downs of building.
Nothing is impossible, unless you think it is.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
I’m also a photographer. I love shooting the quiet details — the expansiveness of nature, the close-up of animals, the light in an ordinary moment. A backpacking trip through Scandinavia remains one of the most grounding experiences of my life — fjords, wild camping, and long stretches of silence. Some of the best insights arrive when you step away from the screen. I’m also a father, which has taught me more about patience, presence, and what actually matters than anything else I’ve done.
If you’re a founder or business owner curious about implementing AI – practically, honestly, without the hype – I write one letter a week about exactly that.