I wasn't supposed to end up here. I grew up in a village in Bihar — no startup scene, no mentors, no computer science degree. Just curiosity and an internet connection. In 2017, while still in school, I started a tech YouTube channel and a blog. For two years they earned nothing. I kept publishing anyway.
In 2018 I started TechYorker, my first real publication. I learned writing by writing daily, web development by breaking my own sites, and search by watching what survived. The site grew — then one mistake wiped out most of its traffic overnight. Rebuilding it, article by article, taught me more than the growth ever did.
Freelancing funded the business in the early years. I wrote for clients and built websites, and put nearly every rupee back into the company. Along the way I lost money in the stock market, lost accounts I depended on, and burned out badly enough to stop working for months. Each of those taught me the same lesson from a different angle: build things you own, and build them to last.
From there Yorker Media took shape — one publication, one channel, one domain at a time. Assets, not gigs. Writing that answers a real question. Brands that outlast the news cycle.
That's still the work today. It compounds slowly, then suddenly.