About us
From Our Founder
I started this company sitting on my bed it was the end of exam summer vacation and I had just finished watching 2 Bollywood classics back to back, I picked up my phone to call my friends when realisation dawned upon me that they were all spending time with their cousins and I was spending time with my laptop, I had recently turned 14 and being in a family of Indian entrepreneurs the seed of starting my own business had been planted in my brain. So much so it was a game to convert the slightest of opportunities into a multi billion dollar start up idea. I learned bargaining at 7 and at 9 I was already bargaining with local sellers at bali, Chandan Nagar to Bali, quite the upgrade! I had learned budgeting at the age of 10 while selling pasta at society event, I learned to create and explanatory but short elevator pitch at a business carnival at 11 and all this was before I even had Financial Markets as an optional subject.
As I sat on my bed imagining 9th grade the idea of being a child entrepreneur was exciting, I thought I had all the required skills to start one... I just didnt know what. Then the next day during the last 15 minutes of my 8th Final math exam I realised that I have always had a passion for crafting and making things by hand and I loved gifting personalised things but slowly the concept of giving heartfelt gifts was replaced by a "HBD, heres the link to your amazon gift card!" and thats when I knew I found the right idea.
The day i came up with this idea I remember running to my mom (CEO of The Happiness Institute) and telling her all about it, With a soft smile she encouraged me to research about what kind of things could I put in a hamper and procurement of their raw materials. That night I prepared an elevator pitch and explained it to my dad (CEO of Teamlease Reg Tech) and sister (Founder of Mezaura totes) Yes you can buy her totes from this website. They were all very supportive and gave me a lot of food for thought. My exams finally ended and the next 15 days of my vaccation I continued staying up till 1 AM but this time I wasn't binging Netflix but was researching ingredients and suppliers.
Slowly the vacations ended and 9th Began, The first month I had no idea how to balance things because honestly managing 9th grade academic stress, Being in the school handball team, learning the Indian Classical dance form Kathak 3 times a week had been more the enough on my plate and now I had a business to somehow grow as well. There are still days when I completely forget about school work (like today i've spent my whole 2 hours working on this) And others where I don't work on my business for 2-3 weeks.
Many Days I wanted to quit and didn't feel like continuing since the only ones keeping my business going initially were my parents. Every time a guest arrived they were told the same story about the start of my own venture and then were given a hamper. Obviously I maintained a record of every hamper my parents bought from me and realised one day they owed me somewhere around 11,000 Rs. Thats they day i realised it had only been around 2 months to the start of my business and i already broke even, I invested around 10,000 and had made 11! But there was a very odd feeling of failure knowing that my parents were the only ones who knew and purchased from my business. I never felt like it truly fulfilled its purpose of helping last minute gifters and thats when i realised i needed an Insta page for my business but i wasn't very consistent in creation of new content due to lack of time and so I didnt get any orders there. Thats when i got the bright idea of starting an all inclusive e- commerce website and taking this small idea born during the last 15 minutes of my 8th grade Math final exam to the next level.
With your support I can keep this passion of mine continued, Even 1 order is contributing towards many happy memories.