INDUSTRY:
AI in Learning & Development
Startup Name:
Adivirtus
Date:
OCT 2024 - JULY 2025
EXPERIENCE:
Perspicacious
Sacrife Pieces
Building Through Conversations
Recording podcasts with fellow young founders isn't just content creation—it's strategic intelligence gathering. Every conversation reveals market insights, funding strategies, and failure patterns that textbooks never teach. When you're discussing growth hacking with a 19-year-old who scaled to 100K users or debating product-market fit with someone who just closed their Series A, you're not networking—you're downloading decades of collective wisdom in real-time. These conversations become the compass that guides Adivirtus through uncharted territory.
Miles Equal Insights
Traveling to events and client meetings isn't overhead—it's competitive advantage in disguise. Every flight to pitch a potential enterprise client, every conference where I shake hands with industry leaders, every startup event where I study the competition live, adds layers to my understanding that Zoom calls never could. Geography teaches you market nuances, face-to-face meetings close deals that emails can't, and being physically present where decisions are made puts you inside the room where it happens.
Knowledge is Power Multiplied
Devouring books from Dave Ramsey on financial discipline, Robert Greene on power dynamics, and Peter Thiel on contrarian thinking isn't academic—it's arsenal building. When you understand human psychology from Greene's "48 Laws," you decode investor behavior. When you absorb Ramsey's financial principles, you build sustainable business models. When you internalize Thiel's contrarian wisdom, you spot opportunities others miss. Every page read becomes intellectual ammunition for the battles ahead in building Adivirtus into a category-defining company.
Quote from the founder,
Every conversation with a fellow founder, every mile traveled to meet clients, and every page read from Greene to Thiel becomes intellectual ammunition for building Adivirtus into a category-defining company.
Aditya Kamble
Founder & CEO
