Let’s pick up from where the story began — not in some boardroom with VCs and pitch decks, but in the random stillness of a good job, where most people would settle. That’s when he didn’t.
Aishwary — before there was a CKonnect, before there were strategy calls, before templates and toolkits and privacy compliance checklists — was just a guy who dropped his first course on Udemy under his name. No plans. No branding. No fancy framework.
He made it. He uploaded it.
Then he left it.
And three months later — boom.
The course started making money. On its own. With no marketing.
Just raw value doing its quiet magic in the background.
And that’s when it clicked.
Not just the revenue. But the realisation that maybe — just maybe — this thing had legs. Maybe this wasn’t just another side experiment. Maybe it could become something.
But here’s the thing about Aishwary: he starts things.
He’s exceptional at it.
But if there’s no one to pick up the baton after, if no one’s there to see the vision through — the idea fades into digital oblivion.
And maybe that’s lesson number one:
1. You need a finisher to match your firestarter.
Big ideas are born in minds like his. But they survive only when there’s someone to structure the chaos and sustain the heat.
As more courses got added, and Udemy turned into this weird global funnel — pulling students from the U.S. and Europe instead of India — one question began haunting him:
“Why are Indian students not taking these?”
“Why aren’t they getting credibility from this?”
The man was giving his all — knowledge, time, templates, cases, tools — for his own tribe.
The students he saw around him.
The underdogs. The unpolished potentials.
And they weren’t even in the room.
That frustration wasn’t just personal.
It was foundational.
It’s what planted the seed for CourseKonnect. A place not bound by platforms.
A brand that wouldn’t wait for anyone’s algorithm to decide who gets value.
But before we romanticise too much, let’s get real.
Because behind every success story, there’s a hilarious pile of messy Google Drive folders and forgotten project names.
2. Aishwary’s chaos is part of the code.
He’s that co-founder.
The one whose creative trail looks like a cyclone hit a Kanban board.
Ask him for a file and he’ll reply, “Wait, let me just find it… I swear it was here…”
And somehow, every time you need a golden line, a perfect phrase, a missing link —
It’s buried in one of his drafts. With three versions. None labelled.
But that’s also the magic: He’s the human AI prompt.
You don’t know where the idea will go, but it’ll go somewhere wild and new and unexpectedly deep.
3. He’s a teacher who never wanted to teach.
His parents are educators. But he never imagined himself in front of a classroom.
Yet, somehow — teaching became his default mode.
He explains while thinking.
He decodes while sharing.
He gives even when he doesn’t realise it.
He once helped a friend prep for a job while preparing for the same role himself.
The friend got the job. He didn’t.
And that still didn’t stop him from sharing knowledge. Because for him, teaching is never competition.
It’s compulsion.
Bonus Pisces Energy Facts:
- Starts 7 projects at once. Finishes... two and a half.
- Can’t follow a structure to save his life.
- But will come up with a new structure mid-way that’s better than the one you had.
And that’s probably why his 15-minute calls are never 15 minutes. Is it 30 min? Ha ha - they end up around 40-45 mins.
Because he’s not done until you’ve understood it.
Until he’s given everything he knows.
Key takeaways from the Aishwary School of Startup Mayhem:
- Chaos is not the enemy. Stagnation is.
- Not finishing something doesn’t mean you failed — maybe your role was to begin it.
- Sharing freely doesn’t make you weaker. It makes you bigger than competition.
- Co-founders don’t have to be alike. They have to be aligned.
So next time you’re in a startup room, find the Aishwary.
The one with five open tabs, a half-built MVP, a hundred ideas, and a heart full of metaphors.
Because even if he doesn’t finish what he starts,
he’ll start something worth finishing.
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