A small office and no investors.
98 Entertainment began in January 2020 with a nightclub as its first client, then a small rented office in Delhi. It never took outside money.
It built ₹15 Cr+ in revenue, 65× on bootstrapped capital. At its peak it had a team of eighteen across three cities, 57 brand clients, and 12 athletes and 500+ creators on the roster. Clients included Roseate, Hard Rock and Slay Coffee; the agency ran campaigns for Happy Dent and Borges, and a hyperlocal influencer engine that TrulyMadly and Slay Coffee rode for growth.
The receipts kept coming in other rooms. In a founder's office role at Intellewings he closed a five-year, $1M ARR enterprise upsell with Jio across 35+ C-level sessions, and at ISB his team was a national finalist in AB InBev's go-to-market challenge, one of ten from fifteen thousand.
The title is the house rule on his own site, where the work section is headed “Receipts, not résumés”.
He talks the way this magazine reads — receipts first, adjectives last.
From his speaker deck