Absolutely agree with this.
Good companies like @binge_labs do exist, companies that genuinely value skill, people, and culture.
Saying “Indian founders underpay” or “Indian companies have toxic work cultures” based on a few bad experiences is an unfair generalisation.
At Graphigo Also, I personally make sure our editors are paid well, rewarded with bonuses, and compensated above typical market rates when their work deserves it. Their time, effort, and skill should feel valued.
If a company doesn’t value you, don’t settle. Leave, find better opportunities, freelance, or build something of your own.
But don’t turn a bad experience into a statement about every Indian founder and brag here.
Good talent deserves good companies.
Good companies deserve good talent.
Peace.
To everyone saying companies pay poorly so they get mediocre work.
You are partially right. Exploitative companies exist. Bad work cultures exist. Companies that pay below market and expect the world exist.
But if you are genuinely talented, you should never be at one of those companies in the first place.
Companies that pay well, treat people right, and have real cultures also exist.
We are one of them @binge_labs
Above market salaries, unlimited leaves, fully remote, flexible hours. And we are not the only ones.
If you cannot find one, freelance. If you are truly skilled, people will pay for that skill. The world is not limited to the exploitative company in your city that is underpaying you.
The real answer to bad companies is not to join them and underperform. It is to starve them of talent until they are forced to raise the bar.
When genuinely talented people stop accepting bad pay and bad culture, companies that operate that way have two options. Change or lose. That is how the market actually fixes itself.
Do not settle. The moment talented people stop settling, the entire argument about mediocre pay causing mediocre work solves itself.
What if you could take any skill, give yourself 24 hours, and learn it well enough to actually use it?
That’s the idea behind my new YouTube channel: I Tried.
For our first video, @Iamdelusionalyk and I locked ourselves in for 24 hours to learn GTM (Go-To-Market) from scratch.
I barely knew what GTM actually meant. I’d just heard companies like Clay, OpenAI & more talk about GTM teams, GTM engineering, and how it can change the way a company grows.
So we decided to learn it by doing it.
24 hours later, we had a complete GTM strategy to take Graphigo from $100K → $600K ARR over the next year, while retaining and growing our existing clients, not just chasing new ones.
Did we actually figure it out?
Checkout the Video Here:
https://t.co/m4oFCfS3Bm
We brought 280K+ organic views in 24 hours for India’s biggest Startup Media Platform : @Inc42 Inc42 Media
13+ reels in 36 hours.
Last month, our team flew down to Gurgaon to handle the post-production and live content for @Inc42’s D2C & Retail Summit 2026.
The challenge was simple:
Turning an entire event into content while the event was still on.
We had 3 reels ready within the first 4 hours, followed by 13+ reels over the next 36 hours all organically distributed.
Events are sitting on an insane amount of content: Founders, investors, operators and industry leaders are already sharing valuable insights on stage. With the right content strategy + a fastest editing pipeline, those insights can be turned into content and distributed while the conversation is still fresh.
We weren’t really good with strategy but surely good with right video editors, So we thought to give it a shot.
We followed a high-volume, Ranveer Allahabadia’s “machine-gun” content approach and it worked.
One of the best moments was seeing someone comment on a reel during lunch:
I saw this in the morning and it's already live in the afternoon.
That’s exactly the kind of turnaround we wanted.
Proud of the Graphigo for pulling this off,
And even more excited about what this could mean for the future of live event content.
Big thanks to the entire team at @Inc42 Inc42 Media for having us
Opus 5.5 is genuinely just the beginning with AI + video editing
There’s alot that’s gonna Change in next, 6-12 months.
Everyday you need to be updated with anything new.
We’re looking for 5 Finance Video Editors for a hybrid role in Mumbai. You’ll work on finance content with some of the country's top creators, founders, and brands.
We’re offering competitive, above-market pay for the right candidates with strong editing and storytelling s
kills.
I say no to potential clients almost every week, Not because I don’t want the business.
But Because sometimes, an agency simply isn’t the right fit.
I regularly get calls from founders and YouTubers who are just getting started and need help with post-production.
The market usually has two extremes:
1. Cheap agencies that struggle to maintain quality and turnaround.
2. Premium agencies that deliver exceptional work, but have the costs and team structure to match.
This was my biggest mistake until now to say yes to everything that came.
The problem is that people often try to force a fit.
I’d rather say no, explain why we’re not the right agency for them, and refer them to a great editor who is.
You don’t have to work with everyone.
Sometimes, saying no is how you protect the client relationship, your team’s quality, and your reputation.
I’d rather build a relationship that lasts than take a client today and disappoint them next month.
Told myself In January this year, i'd close 18 clients by December to reach $50k/MRR, wrote it down.
we're at 6, and i just decided we're done adding as for now.
the goal didn't shrink but i realised that retaining exisiting client is the bigger game than closing new ones.
A service business is easy to start but it's brutal to sustain the moment money becomes the only goal.