Akhil

i'm akhil

BLR, India

buildinginner circle

welcome to my corner on the internet.

you'll usually find me building something, speaking to founders, or binge-watching a new movie i found on a subreddit.

some background about me now that you're here.

started my first company at 19. it was a design studio serving college clubs and shops around my university.

it helped me understand how running a business works early in life. grew that for a while, till i figured a services company wasn't for me.

got introduced to creating things on the internet and built things like these and a few ended up #1 product of the day and week and earned my yearly salary at that point.

i wore many hats over 5+ years of working. design, product, community, running fellowships for founders.

led product on a music quiz app that crossed 10M+ plays and went viral on reddit. helped 200+ artists earn onchain, including the first platform where fans could invest directly in the artists they believed in.

found a lot of my early luck through building in public, so i started helping others. i ran programs to take anyone from 0 to 1, and mentored 1000+ people into shipping their first side-project over my journey.

helped run founder programs for coinbase via Incubase.

got 30 of india's sharpest builders to dharamshala to ship something useful.

somewhere along the way i fell in love with building communities, so now i'm building one called Inner Circle, a global community of early-stage founders.

but largely still figuring it out, building one thing at a time to find my own path in this world.

something that i live by

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fun fact: i lost a chance to win $150k to build a fund for young talent in india by a single vote here.

when i'm not working, i'm usually hunting for the next movie to watch from my watchlist.

if you're building something and want to chat, Twitter is the best place to reach out.