01:08:35 · Anirudh A Damani
[01:08:35] S0: Akshay zero zero one at the rate Akshay zero zero one. That's the Twitter handle. And guys, reach out to him. I I honestly... I... I've got somebody I'm gonna... I've reached out to you right away. Because I think they could they could also become a great acquisition channel for Leverage. So, Leverage, and we'll we'll definitely Lovely. We'll talk about that. But but I think I think I'm I'm so amazed, truly. I I thought that we would have such a different conversation than the one we've had. It's not even been about like, we talked a little bit about Leverage, but it really has been such a wide range of topics. I mean, it's already been an hour and five or eight or ten minutes or something. Wow, really? Yeah, yeah, it's been an hour and ten minutes since we've been speaking and it's, we've just had such an amazing group of topics to talk about, but I think one thing that I'll take away and I think, you know, if people that have listened through what should take away is that it's the power of the network you create, right? And and I don't remember where I read this, but, know, the it's the the quality of your life or the quality of your entrepreneurship even is probably gonna be squared the quality of people that you have around you. And I think that's that's really... I mean, if you have if you have that 2AM friend, which is a Vishal Gondal who's built built a GoKwik, you've got BSS on speed dial, right? And somebody who'll pick up your phone and and be willing to help. Trust me, that's that's a lot of leverage. And I think Leverage Edu may not, Edu might have just come later, but Leverage was there all the way
01:09:59 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
[01:09:59] S1: through. We added the Edu. [01:10:07] S0: Maybe in seven days you'll have the money to buy it. [01:10:12] S1: It's not that big an announcement, but unfortunately, we had had cases of housing.com being bought for $500,000 and things like that. So I think people are less adventurous about buying domain names as they build companies in 2020 now. But at some point of time, I'll have enough money to kind of get the right domain name as well. [01:10:35] S0: You know, I come... I completely believe that that will happen, and I think you're on the right path doing the right thing. And and I I and I really believe, I think the day that... The day Leverage Leverage Finance takes takes off, you know, from your side, it's gonna be a game changer. It really is. And I look forward to seeing and hearing about that even more. [01:10:52] S1: Thank you, Anirudh. [01:10:53] S0: So, Akshay, think we've got we've got about another five or eight minutes worth of questions left, which is gonna be called rapid fire. I think you've been through it. I know you've you told me that you've seen at least that portion of the show, if not anything else in preparation. So quick thing, it's gonna be about eight to 10 questions. I'll just be shooting them out to you at random. First answer that comes to mind is, you know, go ahead and go ahead and just blurt it out. I'm sure there'll be something interesting to talk about there. You're saying something. [01:11:25] S1: Sure. Go ahead. Sorry. [01:11:26] S0: Yeah. You ready? [01:11:28] S1: Absolutely. Absolutely.
01:11:28 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
[01:11:28] S1: Absolutely. Absolutely. [01:11:29] S0: Okay. Good. So I think this is obviously a Peter Thiel question. One thing that you know to be true, but very few people agree with you on this. [01:11:40] S1: I think think very few people will agree on the fact that there's a big view that don't build in public, keep away from the market, keep under the hood, and then suddenly surprise the market. I think I've been building in public even before building in public became kind of the nomenclature for it. And I think it has only helped me so much in my life. So I... Most people who I work with don't agree with me on this. But I think for me, it's been the biggest, biggest, biggest win in my life, up till here. I've had I've had fascinating people join me on my journey, who I'm very, very fortunate to be working with just because this had seen me building in public. And, they are the ones who are gonna taking the company to the next level right now. I'm just kind kind of And [01:12:22] S0: for the sake of clarity, when you say building in public, what does building in public mean? [01:12:27] S1: It means, a, sharing... So it's likely sharing a journey. It be... It... But it also means more importantly sharing your pains and sharing what you lose, all of those things as well. Ah how open are you about ah kind of ah this is something that I on. Ah this is something that I learned about. Ah I you know what I started reading books and this is something I learnt from them. Ah so I think a lot of entrepreneurs have... And how are you
01:12:27 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
[01:12:27] S1: It means, a, sharing... So it's likely sharing a journey. It be... It... But it also means more importantly sharing your pains and sharing what you lose, all of those things as well. Ah how open are you about ah kind of ah this is something that I on. Ah this is something that I learned about. Ah I you know what I started reading books and this is something I learnt from them. Ah so I think a lot of entrepreneurs have... And how are you [01:12:52] S0: doing this section? Do you normally write a blog on this? Are you sending out... Are you still doing the fifteenth email? Or are you, writing all this on Twitter? Like, are you how are you sharing that journey? [01:13:01] S1: I maintain an email list. I maintain an email list. That is one, which is a... Which is very exhaustive email list. Then I have a a broadcast list. Then I use a software called Roam Research in which I have... I divide mentors into four categories, one, two, three, four. And the circle of mentors will send updates to every week and then every month and then three weeks... Every three months, sorry, or then in half a year. And then, of course, I have for the longest time, I've been active on social media as well and ended up kind of sharing things that we are doing as Leverage. So 95% of... 97% of all my posts on social media is something that Leverage is doing or something that we're looking for. And I think that has been incredibly helpful for us as we have kind of built out our company.
01:13:01 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
[01:13:01] S1: I maintain an email list. I maintain an email list. That is one, which is a... Which is very exhaustive email list. Then I have a a broadcast list. Then I use a software called Roam Research in which I have... I divide mentors into four categories, one, two, three, four. And the circle of mentors will send updates to every week and then every month and then three weeks... Every three months, sorry, or then in half a year. And then, of course, I have for the longest time, I've been active on social media as well and ended up kind of sharing things that we are doing as Leverage. So 95% of... 97% of all my posts on social media is something that Leverage is doing or something that we're looking for. And I think that has been incredibly helpful for us as we have kind of built out our company. [01:13:45] S0: How is it that all of us are twenty four hours in a day and you have forty two hours of things?
01:13:51 · Akshay Chaturvedi
[01:13:51] S1: I I I've... I sleep less and I'm trying to work on that. That is one. That definitely gives me about two hours extra. But I think one thing that has helped me truly has been a fact that I think I calendarize my things very well. I feel very obnoxious when I say things like these. But I think my calendar is really like... I exactly know what I'm doing at 08:30AM and 08:30PM and then 12PM. And then I kind of put blocks in the middle as well. So this is a block where, like, two hours where... This is like an open hour of sorts. I'll sit with somebody who looks at key account management in my company and kind of solve this problem. Or these are the big problems that I want to solve. So I spent a large part of my Sunday, 4PM onwards, right down to whatever it takes on figuring out what I wanna do for the entire week. And and I'm very systematic about every single meeting that I do. I take notes on home research and which essentially gives us the power of kind of connecting notes as well. And I I... I'm also able to kind of connect multiple reviews with others. So that just gives me a chance to extract more from that one hour because I've had that plethora of record keeping, plethora of essentially having a lot more background about what I'm doing. Over time now that I can kind of afford to do things like these, I've also started to kind of work with a couple of people, three, four people who work very closely with me and kind of help me do more in my twenty four hours and that has been super helpful.