1 year in Hive School | #149
How it shaped me as a person!
Hi, I'm Pranav
I’m building Hive School, which is India’s First Sales School. I also create content on my YouTube where I share my processes and learnings.
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On 2nd’ December I completed 1 year at HiveSchool. It has been an amazing journey working here.
It started with Nikhil a year ago when he had an idea of building something in the higher education landscape and something in sales. We met initially, and he asked if I wanted to work on this project for some time and create some content collaterals. It’s been a year, and I have worked on many things.
Initially, I joined just to make a few content collaterals, but later, I designed the company’s first website and learned Framer and Figma while making it.
Later, I did almost everything,
Shot content for our socials
Designed thumbnails
Edited videos
Hosted events like Salespreneur (24-hour hackathon) and SaaS Mixer
Now, mostly I work in the Marketing and Student Experience team, but since it’s a startup, I work everywhere.
Here are some learnings from the journey:
Say yes now, figure it out later
I just knew a few things about content, and when Nikhil asked me if I wanted to work on this project, if I hadn’t said yes even though knowing less, I wouldn’t have come here.Shooting content is fun
I learned a lot about marketing and how to grow a brand page and shoot content for it. Learned the processes of streamlining shooting & editing content.Entrepreneurial Skills: Beg, Borrow, Steal
As a startup, you don’t have money and resources. You have to beg, borrow, steal, and get the work done.Showing up every day
Being the founder and founding member is not easy. You have to show up every day, regardless of heat, rain, or cold, there’s no option. That makes you resilient as well, as you have seen ups and downs every day.Founder’s Mindset
Having the mindset to solve problems. As a core / founding team member, it’s crucial to have a founder’s mindset as you are working 25 hrs (literally) to make this grow and also setting a base for future team members and students in the startup.Being Humble
When you experience the roller coaster of a startup, it makes you humble.
It’s been a crazy journey, with lots of ups and downs, and seen the team make some hard decisions.
It’s not over yet,
Our admissions for cohort 3 are open
Only 30 seats left!
Lastly, work in a startup if you are young. You’ll learn a lot about all the verticals of a startup and learn from good team members.
All thanks to Nikhil, Simar, Prabal, Simran, Keshav, Amit, Sanskriti, Mishthi for being the amazing team members.
Self-Plugin
I made a video on completing 1 year at HiveSchool. You can see it here.
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Pranav
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Congratulations on completing 1 year at HiveSchool!
Saw you doing more and more interesting stuff, More power to you💪