Hello there! I Saurabh Jr. also goes by the name Unpaid Founder on the web, and I'm thrilled to share a bit about myself (pretend). I'm a 24-year-old business administration student at Pune University, but that's just a small part of who I am (I guess so).

I like to think of myself as a craftsman and truth seeker. I'm obsessed with building and discovering new things, and I'm constantly looking for exciting reasons to wake up in the morning.

Ever since I was 17 years old, I've been fascinated by the world of products and technology. I became intrigued by behavioral economics and human psychology after being introduced to Dr. Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahneman, Don Norman, and Nir Eyal by one of my mentors.

At the age of 18, I discovered Ryan Hoover and Product Hunt, as well as Patrick Collison and his beautiful website, which blew my mind (FR)with his blogs on culture and fast. Paul G's essays, Prof. Feynman, & Naval, that was my first encounter with the so-called tech twitter.

At the age of 19, I dove into "tech Twitter" and found a community of like-minded individuals.

At the age of 20, I made my first sale of 1000rs and got exposed to the power of community building. I met and connected with people who shared my interests and passions, which inspired me to keep exploring.

At 21, I'm building a new venture actualone.xyz, where we are empowering the WEB3 Ecosystem through Effective Solutions for Scattered Opportunities, Lack of Collaboration, and Inadequate Filtration. I'm also contributing to hashcase.co, where we help brands create, launch, and distribute NFTs to a non-web 3.0 audience using my experience in community building and marketing.

Hahaha 23, I have stepped down as the Founder & CEO, build and scaled actualone.xyz to more than 30k communities globally also did lots of experimentation around myself. I don't know what my core nish I call myself a Product guy but I'm just trying to figure out placing my creativity, in 2023

It was a great year so far, why

1. I have a lot of +ve coincidence happening around (mom said the more you work hard more coincidence take place )
2. It's funny but have started believing in God, I'm no more trying to control shit finally
3. Also what I learned was marketing is shit,2023 onward brands need to reinvent they interact with their user its more about tribe, ideologies, and relatability. Today user has a choice he needs a reason to make a decision and the reason is more about who understands human behavior
4. Also, I learned you never need a budget to market something.
5. One thing I've noticed this year I have done the least networking, tried to work on my craft, and surprisingly found that I have ended up in between best brains, so no more networking for life
6. It seems like I haven't figured it out but all I'm trying to do is build myself an asset maybe a personal brand, money, or experience of building stuff so that when it's a eureka moment for me I would have bought myself some extra time.
7. It's 10 sept 2023 the year isn't over yet I'm trying to reinvent myself by the end of this year, so let's see how it goes surely drop in here, see u on dec 31/2023

At 24, After ActualOne, I finally found my calling — building things that create buzz for other brands. That’s how The Unpaid Company was born: a creative studio helping brands build recall and retention.

In Q2 2024, we started The Unpaid Company. The launch went great — in month one itself, we touched $5k/month.

I used to have a wrong perspective about pedigree. Turns out, pedigree can also be built.

The more I deal with this grind, the more I realize success is actually simple: be consistent, solve problems, and have a learning attitude.

I’ve also realized I’m bad at being consistent. My biggest kick comes from motivation — and that’s a problem I need to fix.

I pretend a lot about having discipline.

Two very close people called me a hypocrite today.

It’s crazy how the brain slips into defense mode because of ego and preferences. I haven’t self-reflected in a while. If I had spent all that energy improving myself instead of thinking about deficits, happiness, or “my true calling,” things would’ve been different.

Doing actual work is a different feeling — painful. Thinking about a Lambo isn’t painful, but working for it is… and that’s where the self-doubt and discipline issues show up. My work ethic needs fixing.

Doing the work is completely different from thinking about it.

My shortcuts to success so far have been leveraging others’ mistakes and building extra compute for myself. It works, but working next to someone with an Amex Black Card won’t get me one — my discipline and consistency will.

Transparency is important.

I moved to Dubai. First in my bloodline to move out of our region.

its just crazy how many people show up in the gym and very few have gains—I mean, I'm just showing up in life, there is a graveyad full of people like me

I discovered endurance training — and it’s wild. If two people run 5 km, we both feel the same pain, but I’ve learned to push through it. It’s stretching my mental muscle and building a stronger conscience. I can even resist a cigarette now, which feels crazy.

Endurance is a blessing. I love it. I call myself a hybrid athlete now.

I think endurance training is what’s going to fix my discipline problem.

I’ve finally found a system that doesn’t rely on motivation. I’m a simple human who wakes up and follows a few protocols, ticking them off on the whiteboard in my room. It’s helping me stay consistent — and I actually have more respect for myself now.

Also if you visited unpaidfounder.xyz and incase u would like to have a conversation just ping me on X/Twitter or Calendly.