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Ishaan Sharma’s Inspiring Journey: From IIT Aspirant to Crorepati Influencer
Get ready to be inspired as we hunt through the incredible journey of Ishaan Sharma, a name that’s not just making waves but creating a tidal wave of inspiration for the youth. From dreaming big about cracking the IIT code to scripting his own success story and raking in crores, Ishaan’s tale is not just about financial victory but a validation of resilience, adaptability, and the invariant belief that your journey is entirely yours to shape. Join me as we explore the twists, turns, and triumphs that define Ishaan Sharma’s extraordinary path. Ishaan Sharma- Biography NAME Ishaan Sharma BIRTHPLACE Goa, Maharashtra BORN October, 2000 EDUCATION College dropout, BITS Pilani, Goa NATIONALITY Indian OCCUPATION Co-founder of Markitup and Content Creator MARITAL STATUS Unmarried Ishaan Sharma- Personal Life Ishaan Sharma was born in a Hindu middle-class family in Goa, Maharashtra. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a government employee. His father was very keen with him to clear the NTSE exam ( National Talent Search Examination), conducted by NCERT to give scholarships to students studying in Class 10th. Alas, he was not able to clear the exam and after the 10th class, began to prepare for IIT-JEE in Delhi. Early Life Ishaan has also been interested in technology from the very beginning and decided to pursue a career in engineering. After preparing for IIT-JEE after the 12th for about 2-3 years, in 2019 he appeared in the exam and he was able to clear IIT-Mains but could not get through IIT-advanced. He was disappointed but his parents cheered him up and told him to focus on what was coming next for him. Afterward, he appeared in the BITS exam and luckily got selected for the BITS Pilani Goa campus in electrical engineering. He wanted to learn and upskill himself as much as possible and took inspiration from top creators like Aman Dhattarwal. He was so dedicated and motivated that the day his JEE-advanced exam was over, he started learning coding and purchased a course from Udemy. He was interested in programming and learned Python and also kept on gaining knowledge via books. By the end of July 2019, he came to BITS Pilani, Goa with a fire to learn and explore more and did not want to take the baggage of not going into any of the IITs. College Life After joining the college, he joined various groups and made new friends. Before college only he was into coding, but he doubled down upon it and learned about Machine learning and data science frameworks upskilling himself. As we all know at the age of 18-24, it is not easy to get rid of distractions, Ishaan also loved the freedom he had, no one was there to tell him what he should do or not. He used to watch movies and series and got distracted in the first 1 or 2 months. He got the reality check after his mid-sem results where he did not perform well and was average in programming and realized that he had wasted a lot of time watching series and movies but again he started focusing solely on Machine learning. He also realized to build a career in Machine learning, he needed to have a research paper or thesis and he did not have that much time so he started learning about web development and social media management. By the end of December 2019, he started his podcast channel with the motto of interviewing people in college, learning from them, recording them and generating awareness, providing value to people, and started putting the podcast videos on YouTube also. In 2020, as the covid hit, he started making more and more YouTube videos and simultaneously posting content on Linkedin. Ishaan Sharma- First e-book As he was learning about LinkedIn and putting out videos for the same, he got the idea to condense the information into one place and launched an e-book and published it in July 2020 named “Crush it on Linkedin” and gave the first 4,000 copies completely free. Internships He was so much into learning that apart from making YouTube videos, he was left with some free time. He applied for internships to gain more experience and build a strong resume. He got an opportunity to work as an intern in a company as a Facebook ads manager position. Soon he realised he had to work full-time there and just get Rs 5,000 for it. Within just 5 days, he left the internship and started working again on his YouTube channel. New Venture- Podinfinity After discontinuing the internship, in July 2020, he started with Podinfinity, a pod-casting mentorship session with 7 months of experience. It did not go that well and the revenue was just Rs10,000. As it was just his starting, he was fine with it and again started putting out content on YouTube. Worked in Able Jobs And Unacademy In August 2020, he was approached by Able Jobs after seeing his videos on the YouTube channel which wanted him to make content and videos for their channel. After that, he also started getting income from his own YouTube channel. Again in October 2020, he was approached by Unacademy and taught Python. He was managing all this along with appearing for exams at his college. Opportunity In Codedamn He got an opportunity to work with his BITS senior in the startup Codedamn and solely worked on growing it. This was an amazing experience for him as he got to learn about many things like e-mail marketing, running Facebook ads, cold outreach, etc., and ended up working with them in January 2021 to focus on building his own business. His Startup Story- Markitup In January 2021, Ishaan was approached by his roommate to start an agency. At this point, Ishaan was reached out by a lot of companies to become a YouTube and content strategist for them. He wanted to work with multiple clients at the same time so in February 2021, he