In India, King Sidharth is known as an energetic young entrepreneur. He's a popular speaker in many college events for his design, philosophy. Enterprises find it fairly hard to match the rules laid forth by society in a boring world. King Sidharth's life reflects such ideas, although he never stops his curve of learning.
Early life:
King Sidharth had creativity and self-assurance in his interests when he was eleven years old at school.
He began organizing activities in his area, and they also printed tickets for the guests." It was very interesting to me, considering just running my own software," he remarked. We also provided the winners of these competitions with little prizes."
Later in the 10th grade, he launched Friends, an online magazine that aimed to bring together all like-minded people in one spot. It was then that he developed a strong interest in filmmaking and began filming short videos with his buddies.
In 2010, King Sidharth was named one of the World's 25 Young Entrepreneurs and was featured in the book.
By the 11th grade, he had obtained a great understanding of website design and creation. He also began working on numerous freelancing tasks and hired a few individuals in the process. During these years, he considered taking a year off before enrolling in college. He did receive a lot of advice on his excellent decision.
He did what he claimed he was going to do in the end. "I knew the college won't teach me, so why should I join ?" he continues. All I have to do is keep up with the other rats. Instead, I chose a year-long drop, which resulted in everything landing where it ought to.
Dropping out and starting a business:
After a year of testing various things, he decided to pursue his graduation at Arts college. However, things did not turn out quite as he had hoped.
Although I learned a lot from other people, I truly wanted to do something on my own.” The college's 9 to 5 schedule left him with little time to pursue his passions, and he eventually dropped out.
He founded Web Mutiny with a friend after improving his web-design talents. They wanted to work together to generate and solve good design issues.
As events unfolded, he left Web Mutiny to work for Instamojo in Mumbai. He works on several platforms, but his devotion remains unaffected. The reason for ‘King' Sidharth is that he is living his dreams according to his own wishes.
1. Entrepreneurship is never about playing it safe. If you want to play it safe, it’s not for you. Life is not for you. Life is never about playing it safe. Life is about playing it fun. That’s behind every entrepreneur.
2. He says that the definition of success varies from person to person. One has one's own definition for success and he himself holds the key to it. He emphasizes the importance of being self-sufficient.
3. He advises to take opinions but after asking people, he says, one must follow what one thinks out of it, not what they think.
4. As a teenager, I hated the amount of mixed expectations and confusion that system and society imposed. You’re already dealing with the life-altering mind and body changes at that time. And you’re expected to make career and life choices.
5. With 10th & 12th boards, people abandoned their passions and talents to score well. And some never picked it up again.
6. I felt there was a need to talk about these issues and what related to teenagers. So I started an online magazine targeted for people like me who were probably facing similar issues.
7. I work with a team where we build products that touch lives of millions of people every day.
8. Many new possibilities and businesses have emerged over last 5 years because of what we do every day. And this is just the beginning so I am not just satisfied, but excited about what I do presently.
9. So much of this reality is beyond my wildest imagination. (Imagination of my past self to be accurate)
10. I don’t think children lack the courage to follow their dreams. And I don’t think easy and their dreams are two different paths.
11. It’s always easy to do what you love and lean towards your dreams. The difficult part is actually changing your expectations from yourself to match that of everyone who is not you.
12. Like Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
13. A Bigger factor, probably the most underrated factor, is the privilege. I was privileged enough to have a family that could afford food every day, and could afford to educate me enough so I can answer these questions in English.
14. Imagine if I was a child labourer! Every child should have the opportunity to live, live with dignity, and follow their dreams. And society should afford it. That’s what I wish we could fix.
15. Learn to think for yourself, take your own decisions, wash your own clothes, make (and even grow) your own food, do your own taxes. It’s very important to be self-sufficient.
16. Read books that make you stop and think and ask uncomfortable questions.
17. Travel alone or with close friends. Write what you think, for yourself.
18. Meditate. Invest in yourself, take good care of yourself.
19. Learn about privilege. Be aware of yours. Help those who are less fortunate and privileged. Learn about selection bias.
20. In my opinion, entrepreneurship is not a static defined thing in real life. It’s a proactive way of living & thinking — a tendency to find a new and more effective ways to solve a problem.
21. Life gives you choices about what kind of person you want to become. Some choices lead you to become a person with entrepreneurial tendencies.