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Kritarth Mittal • Soshals

Founder, Soshals | C... • 7m

I built my first startup in 3rd year of college. Dedicated the next 12 months to writing code, understanding user behavior, building communities, and scaling it nationally. 10k+ users & $0 spent. This was 2019. But here's the catch: My resume had no internship experience or club association. I was skeptical if I even had a shot at placements as my resume was almost a blank page. But my interviewer was fascinated. For the next ~2 hours, all he asked was about how I built the MVP, designed the architecture, and connected with my users. He gave 0 fucks about whatever else was or wasn't there in my resume. Out of ~4k applicants, I was amongst the 6 people who were hired. Remote role with 12 lakhs/yr (in-hand, not CTC) as starting salary in 2020. My friends had all the fancy keywords, certificates, and tonnes of internship certificates in their resumes. But none of it mattered. Nobody could crack the interview because nobody knew shit about building real products. Another counterintuitive thing - Building projects never compromised my academics. I had an average GPA of 9.4 in the last 5 sems. I just wrote whatever I was experiencing — be it tech, business, or marketing. Building shit in college years is such an underrated hack to exponential career growth. Feeling unstoppable at an early age adds a disproportionate amount of confidence and rigor to your personality. More kids should be shipping.

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