Saurabh Maurya is the Co-Founder and CEO of the SSD Education Pvt Ltd. It is an education startup. Saurabh's turnover is more than 22 crores. He also runs a YouTube channel named IITians Vlogs. He is from Uttar Pradesh, India.
YOUTUBE:- IITian Vlogs
EDUCATION
Saurabh earned his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology(Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi.
HONORS
- He talked about his life in Josh Talks.
ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY
Saurabh was not born in a millionaire family. He was born into a poor family. But his parents' thinking was not poor. If your parents gave good thoughts so you can definitely become successful. Saurabh earned his primary education in a private school. His school was far from his home. The distance was nearly 4 kilometers. He did not have a cycle to go to school.
Initially, his dreams were very small, because he lived in a small village. Saurabh's dream was he wanted to open one computer shop. He wanted to give songs, movies to the public. But his parents wanted to become him successful. So he managed some money for Saurabh and his brothers and sent them to Banaras.
Saurabh did not want studies, he wanted a computer shop and he wanted to run the computer the whole day. He was shocked at that time when his brothers passed in IIT exams. Now, all hoped to Saurabh because his two brothers were already completed IIT. But, Saurabh was not interested in IIT. But, he did not convince his parents, and he continued his studies.
In this whole incident, he already spoiled his 11th. and he failed in 12th IIT exam. He was cried so much at that time. With his parent's support, he again started preparation for IIT, forgot the whole world, and did work hard, and finally, he cracked the IIT exam. This achievement completed his parent's dream. For this financial support, he started teaching and slowly it became his passion.
When he went to college, he saw the various type of students. College did so many activities for students. Some were running for business, some tried for placement, every student was wanted to achieve something. At that time, he thought that, what Can I do? What is my specialty? He was teaching that's why he thought that he wants something best in the teaching sector. Saurabh went to every coaching center of Banaras as a teacher, but all wanted to experienced teacher and he got rejection.
If he left this thought, so he would not jobless because he passed IIT so that he could get a good package. But he decided that he start something own. At this time his teacher journey started. With the help of his mother, he managed 5000 rupees and he bought one second-hand smartphone. Now, he had a smartphone so that he started a YouTube channel.
Initially, he did not have a setup for teaching students. He started teaching with pen and paper. Slowly-slowly he collected some money and purchased board. Then, he constantly shared tips and tricks on his channel. One day, he shared his journey. Here, he got the comment, that was, will you become our guidance?
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He started his first startup with this thought and started mentoring. But another problem was the team so that he hired his friends. But he thought that students got guidance from us, but they wanted to courses. and slowly he started small courses with small fees. and he names this company was SSD education private limited. Within the year they earned 11 crore revenue.
Then, he saw that students were looking for hostels and many other things, so he thought and launched his second startup. Here, they provide guidance, counseling, living facilities. It also ran very well. He saw that there were so many home coaching centers that were running. Saurabh thought about it and started the third startup. He combined home tuition and a personal coaching center.
He started three startups, but its management is not a cup of tea. It is very difficult. He faced so many challenges. Initially, he lived in a small room, he was not attending his college lecturers regularly and his friends were irritated him. But he faced this and now he is an entrepreneur.
You should follow your passion, find your passion, and chase it.
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