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Sahil Arora

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I started off that company in my room itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

It was a complete sole founding idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

It was a sole founder company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

Back then, I found a few initial early team members over Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

We worked remotely for about a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

Oh, it was simple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

I kind of went on Twitter and I told people, so I approached a couple of, you know, app developers who were young and kind of, you know, freelancers and passionate about working on a product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

And I tried pitching them my idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I'm around 20 plus developers and people of the same field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

And I got almost three, four of them on board for the idea without paying them a penny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

And after that, I started the product with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I completed the first product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

Yeah, so it was simple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So people of my same age group, so I was 16 when I started, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I convinced people of, you know, younger than me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I got on board a 14-year-old developer who was believing in the idea, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So probably the vision was pretty cool when I started off, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So we were making another social media platform back then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

which would have an iris scanning solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So basically, you know, you don't no longer need a password for your social media accounts.