Ved's About
COYS
What am I doing?💎
I am explicitly putting my attention into meaningful projects, helping me propel further while being stressed by them and obsessed with football!
Quick life timeline ⏬
A brief look into the 6 stages (only 6 for design purposes) I've grouped it into so far
Good Stats, great xG
All my life, balance and working smartly has been key. Whether it’s education, health & productivity. I strongly believe that there’s always ways to get things done, and get things done even better too. I’m constantly expanding, and trying to get into phases of deep-work even more as I gradually develop capacity
All of my work-like experiences so far
My primary focus is on multiplying the impact I can create with Nexteen, LooCafe & the other projects I'm working on, which currently have promising moonshot trajectories This is just a little showcase of the work that keeps me nostalgic and grateful for opportunities. (Omits the projects I'm currently working on, on my home page)
Focus
I've spent the last 4+ years now working with LooCafe in various capacities. Nexteen since 2 years and more, DRNF for 5 years and more. Every project I've done in this list below has been a tangent to it or a side project that I began and thoroughly enjoyed plus learnt from. I have an irrational optimism to do things at scale & learn by being Entreprenurial/working. While my focus is on a couple of primary projects that are still growing or newer projects that I delve into, I got into all of these organizations by loosing sleep and knowing that something incredible could possibly come out of it.
Tottenham Hotspur + Deccan Legion
Ambassador for Hyderabad Spurs + Matchday Volunteering → Feels like forever; Tottenham is crazy. (Still continuing)
A project that comprises some of my best memories. With so much going on at LooCafe + Nexteen (and others), this is the most relieving. 🎶
Adminstrative Staff College of India/ WASH Innovation Hub
Marketing / Partner with LooCafe Apr 2022 - May 2022
Created collaterals, launched our book Toilet Tales by the Urban Development Minister at Ink Wash 3.0
Learnt a lot in WASH and led a team of 20 young WASH enthusiasts.
MoHuA - Swacch Bharat Mission
Creator - YuWASH May 2022 - Sep 2022
A WASH Internship program for GenZ across India, created in association with Swacch Bharat Mission, MoHUA, KPMG, LooCafe & Nexteen. We worked with consultants from the SBM KPMG Team to spread the program, but we put it on hold.
Web3/AI Research + Safe Block
Operations & Strategy Head, COO → Until November 2022
Safeblock is now an advanced provider of secure cryptocurrency wallet nomination solutions. We offer cutting-edge blockchain technology, transparent tools, and expert support for maximum security and returns.
Along with SafeBlock, I dove deep into Emerging Technology research that stemmed from my interest in Economics. In this role, I applied my creative management skills based on research.
NeuraliX
Consultant Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Supported team growth
and recommended methods for them to go beyond their current manufacturing
World Youth Media
Founder May 2021 - Aug 2021
Youth Media House that creates short-form edu-tainment news content. A Complete package with newsletters, rampant social media, Podcasts & YouTube as our platform.
One of my first projects ever that led to all this
Vibraneum Gaming
Assistant Editor 2021-Present
My younger brother's YouTube channel that has 100K+ Subs and 60 million views
Proud of this job, love my employer.
X-Culture
Business Consultant Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Strategized a GTM for new international markets and led teams working on challenges. Worked for X-Culture and Novabrink, Brazil.
3 Startup Gigs
Consulting Director for all 3 roles 1-month gigs, 2020-2022
NoteFynd - A notefinding, student support app, branding & networking. TiE award finalist. 100K Deeds Challenge - Supported a 24hr Good deeds challenge, worked with Impact MUN Avinya - India's largest School Innovation fest. Managing partner
MUNs..MUNs...MUNs..
EB, Chair, OC Since 2018
I like fighting and learning simultaneously. MUNs or Mock Parliaments have been quite the experience. Various organizations and diverse roles. From Harvard's MUN's winning delegate to EB'ing IIT Bombay's MUNs IRL.
Rainwater Project/Blue Hyderabad
Youth Awareness Enthusiast Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Ceated media content and held community discussions on action towards conservation, attended a Government Conference for Jal Shakti, met the minister and heads of states.
Ixora Group
Team Player Since 2020
All of LooCafe's sister companies. Irise - Sanitation Products, F&B & Health products. Ixora Corporate Services - Tech based FM & others. I support them and work with them whenever I can while working at LooCafe.
Top 6 Experiences Bulletin
Every 3 months, I update this list of Experiences (w blogs!) #EventfulLives Currently: January 2024 - March 2024
Spending nearly ~1 month in Delhi for Governance
I spent more time in the capital with officials, assisted in policy research and brainstormed new ideas for new regimes while meeting a lot of new people in politics, policy & government.
National Award Winner
LooCafe was one of the few private companies to be featured at the National awards for cities & sanitation, we brought a full life sized loocafe mini from Hyderabad and displayed our unit to the President of India.
The birth of iRise Travels
We found a way we could source flight tickets cheaper than the internet & created a new startup called iRise Travels, travelled extensively for meetings & our product sold like hotcakes.
Travelled :D
Because iRise Travels made flight tickets & accomodations so much cheaper, we thought, why not spend some time touching grass ourselves? Memorable set of experiences, spent 2-3 weeks outside.
AI Governance & Youth policy
Assisted in drafting policy for the state government & understood AI governance broadly while meeting my first set of people involved in the space.
LooCafe's 3-tier app was implemented
From the toilet finder app to the facility management system, we had a presentation of it all coming together.
PS: Socials for the latest updates
Academic - Schools
I've been grateful to be associated with some great institutions; here's some superficial information about what I did there (So much more!!!🐣
Grades 0-7
Pure vibes, went to every extracurricular class possible, sport, art etc. Always been interested in a lot of things.
Read a lot, had the highest reading speed for my demo.
Tinkered w cars, played instruments, every sport, watched good content.
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Grade 7-10
Chaitanya Vidyalaya - Hyderabad MUNs..MUNs..MUNs x 3
Theatre, plays & Drama x6 #1
Failed Math in at least one term until grade 10
Electricity & Carpentry Wizard Football Grade Captain
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Grade 11-12
AMSPORPS - Hyderabad
Quizzes (Science, GK. etc.) #1 STEM Labs lead Debate #1 Technology #1 Some more Quizzes and Debates #2 Sports; Football, Table Tennis, Cricket
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Gap Sem + Before College
Downtime post boards took a long time to figure out what academic blend worked best for me.
Became more social, moved to the capital for living + work.
Research camps and programs at a couple of unis
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University+
Going to a university in my city that's top in Engineering & tech.
Studying Econ +Business & exposing myself to Emerging Tech classes
Also attending a lot of camps, fellowships & programs for ~5 months each year w uni extra. IRL(Cornell Xchange'24, Oxford Summer'24)
More; Where I'm spending my "other time."
Big Ups to all the pieces of content some of the organizations featured here generate.
Ved's Brain
Welcome to some of the featured things I'm doing and my thoughts on them - I hope these serve as helpful resources for you too. Ps: Most names are hyperlinks
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Communities & Groups
PioneerX, T-Hub Network, Emergent Ventures India, InterIntellect, BMGF India, X-Culture, TS 30u30, AIIMA, OSV & many more!
My full list + thoughts (Soon) →
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Fitness & Health
My focus on longevity, How I went from IBS + extremely allergic → happy + healthy by liftin; Sunday league, uni, school football teams & playing any sport when I have time + having a "sweetness" allergy and managing it.
Ved's fitness article (Soon) →
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Dailies & Newsletters
Semafor, Morning Brew (and its other letters), worksinprogress.co, thesignal.co, friends' Astral Codex, Z-Fellows & my friends' newsletters
How I'm off Social Media & how I read newsletters →
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Shows & Social Media
Rick & Morty, Sherlock, B99, BBT, BB, Ted Lasso, Wrexham All or Nothing & more. Football, Curiosity, News, Local, Curation of cool people: My SM organization R/Hyderabad, TIL, Vexilliogy, COYS and everything that feeds my curiosity on reddit.
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Music & Gaming
Fav Genre: Rock + Pop Blend; American Authors, Coldplay, Royal Concept. Almost everything, I like upbeat feel-good songs. Hindi, Telugu & other regional music too | FIFA 16-24, AC, Legacy, FN, Geo Guesser.
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Bizarre things I've written/spoken about
Interview with Big TV, My X-Culture intro video, My do Memesworst application essays submitted, Ronaldo Memes thread.
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YouTube + Movies
The ultimate resource for anyone to become - really anything. Possibly the primary tool that's shaped me: From academics to growing curiosity - YouTube.
Blog: How watching CGP Grey & others shaped me (soon)
Movies: David Fincher's stuff, everything but horror that's rated well, has depth or is funny/a Bollywood movie. LetterBoxd List Soon →
I identify interesting things and talk about them over conversations or just consume them. Wide range of subjects. I'm quite the movie buff.
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Reading
Watching + Listening + Reading. As a child, I used to read - A LOT. And then my reading interest died down until I read this Reddit Post.
Current Reading (2023 Nov):
No specific genre, but Dan Brown, Carlo Revelli, and topic focused books in general are something I end up picking up. Rn: Geography focused - encyclopedia-esque while reading more on Indian product sucess stories - Biographies.
Fun fact: My website's logo is inspired from the physics' symbol for entropy - the reason why life forms stemmed from primordial soup
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