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From getting rejected by top MBA colleges to being fired from my first startup, my journey has been filled with setbacks that shaped who I am today. Watch as I reveal how I handled multiple business failures, struggled with a ₹20 lakh loan, and had to lay off 85 employees at my own startup.
Despite building a successful personal brand today, I once had only 5 months of savings left during COVID lockdown. This video shares the raw, unfiltered truth behind the glossy success story you see - proving that every career journey has its ups and downs.
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Ankur Warikoo is an internet entrepreneur and India's leading career mentor, reaching:
12Mn+ followers across YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
3X Bestselling author of Do Epic Shit (2021), Get Epic Shit Done (2022) and Make Epic Money (2024)
Founder of WebVeda.com - an online school empowering young Indians, with 400,000+ career success stories and counting
A career catalyst who's been both the interviewer and interviewee, the founder and the funded, the mentor and the mentee
Having navigated multiple career pivots (from physicist to consultant to CEO to content creator), he's now dedicated to helping you build an extraordinary career without making the same mistakes he did.
Featured in Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 List for India, Forbes Top 100 Digital Creators list 2022, and LinkedIn India's Top Voices (2018-2020), he brings real-world insights from his MBA at Indian School of Business, his time as CEO of Groupon India and Nearbuy.com, and his journey of building multiple successful ventures.
This channel is your weekly dose of practical, no-nonsense career advice - from cracking interviews to negotiating salaries, from switching careers to starting up, from building your personal brand to becoming irreplaceable at work.