Sandeep Pawar

Co-Founder and CEO | Lifelong Wealth | MFD | Behavioural Finance Enthusiast | Client First approch to build lifelong relationship | Financial Awareness

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

@ShefVaidya @peyushbansal This is absolutely ridiculous for not allowing Bindi in India @lenscart_com

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

@TMCaTweetAway @ThaneTraffic TMC is preparing a cycle track on Dr Nath Pai marg (some people call it Dr Anne Besant Marg). Now all City flow buses and parked vehicles are occupying one more lane. This is creating traffic jams during peak hours especially in the evening.

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

Ye hai Mumbai meri jaan...everything is possible. I know people like "Adami kamata kyun hai ...khane ke liye" they are ready to pay this kind of money if they like the food.

[Adv. Ayushi Doshi @AyushiiDoshiii]

My Maharaj (Cook)
•Charges ₹18k per house
•Max 30 mins per house
•10–12 houses daily
•Free food & free chai everywhere
•Gets paid on time or leaves without a goodbye 😭

Meanwhile I’m out here saying “gentle reminder” with trembling hands with minimum salary.🙂

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

@hvgoenka awesome Sir

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Indians gave Rs 4,000+cr to Turkey & Azerbaijan last year through tourism. Created jobs. Boosted their economy, hotels, weddings, flights.

Today, both stand with Pakistan after Pahalgam attack.

Plenty of beautiful places in India & the world.
Please skip these 2 places.
Jai Hind.

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

From “it’s all over social media” to “I can’t hear you properly” 🤣🤣🤣🙏🏻

[Sakshi Joshi @sakshijoshii]

Best thing on internet today ❤️

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

This is a big problem in India regarding marketing done by food companies. Govt needs to bring some regulations @PMOIndia

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

In the short term, you’re as good as your focus. In the long term, you’re only as good as your consistency.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

How our food companies are taking us for a ride! I was truly shocked by these revelations.

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

IMD#10089265

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

Pathetic service by @BajajAllianz to their partners as well as clients. Hospitalization is already settled by NewIndia but Bajaj is rejecting one day cash benefit under their Hospi Cash policy and their Thane branch is not helping after repeated follow up @tapansinghel

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

One more worst service experience with @BajajAllianz Renewed composite Bike policy and not they are saying because of IT fault they renewed only third party and now asking us photos of bike to renew own damage. @tapansinghel Again no support from Thane branch

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

Thanks @warikoo Very important point is "None of this investing is active. I spend less than 5 mins every month tracking or managing it - and I am happy to pay a fee to experts to manage my money for me."

Having trusted expert on your side will definitely help in a long run

[Ankur Warikoo @warikoo]

How much money did we make in 2024?
Income sources revealed...

Background:
My wife and I own a holding company - Zaan WebVeda Private Limited.
It has 3 business units:
1. Brand warikoo (the content business)
2. WebVeda (the education business)
3. Investing (the company's profits)

Business Unit 1: Brand warikoo (content business)
This is our content play.
I am the face of this content - and we create content across YT, IG, LI, TW, WA, Newsletters, Podcast, Books.
Cumulative 14.8M+ followers (overlapping)

Within this business, we have multiple income streams.

Income Stream 1: Advertising
We do not run any ads on YouTube and thus do not earn any money.
This amount will range from Rs. 1-1.5Cr ($120K-180K) if we were to turn it on, for the 800M+ views we generated annually last year on YouTube.

Don't ask why we haven't turned it on lol

Income Stream 2: Affiliate Income
This is income earned when we share links to brands, through our content, and viewers end up buying something after clicking the link.
The business earns a share of the revenue generated through the link.

From Jan-Dec 2024 we earned Rs. 48.22L (USD 56K) in affiliate income.
100% of the affiliate we have earned (and will earn in the future) goes towards the education of kids who cannot afford it.

It is a simple process. Students email me, we ask for their student ID, college details, Aadhaar and a link to pay the school/college directly. And we make the transfer.

Last year, we contributed 43L towards the education of 104 kids and since existence we have contributed nearly 1.7Cr (USD $200K) towards the education of 397 kids.

Thanks to all of you :))

Income Stream 3: Public Speaking
I love public speaking and a lot of corporates invite me to their team events, all-hands, leadership offsite to address the audience and share my experiences.

We are not cheap (9L/hr) and are extremely selective, because this isn't my livelihood and I want to spend my time only where I want to.

In 2024 we earned 2.38Cr (USD 280K) in speaking fees.

It is insane that I can earn this much, for something that I love doing.

Income Stream 4: Book Royalty
I publish a book a year.
These are written for an audience that hasn't ever read, or doesn't read often. My biggest joy is receiving an email stating "this was the first book I finished".
4 books released so far and whenever they sell we earn a royalty.

In 2024, we earned 1.65Cr (~$200K) in book royalty.

Income Stream 5: Brand Collaborations & Endorsements
As a public figure with a distribution, a lot of brands reach out to us to promote their product/services.
Every brand we work with has to fulfill at least 2 of these 3 criteria:
- I have personally used them as a consumer and love the experience
- I personally know the founder/CEO from before
- The brand has been in existence for 5+ years
Because of this criteria, while we get around 300-350 queries per month we end up working with ~1-2 every month.

This income stream was meant to support WebVeda and will eventually come to near zero, atleast in terms of brands we work with.

In 2024, we earned 2.76Cr ($325K) through brand collaborations and endorsements.

Business Unit 2: WebVeda (education business)
This is where I spend 80% of my time.
WebVeda is an online school offering affordable courses with lifetime access and 100% refund, in subjects that school and college do not teach.
Time mgmt, money mgmt, communication, startup, career planning, cold emailing etc

We have 428,000+ students enrolled at an avg price point of Rs. 1,100 per student.
Growing at 6-8K students per month.
7% of our students are from outside of India.
Avg completion rate is 72%
Avg refund is 5.5%

We launch 1 course per quarter and have a total of 12 courses on the platform.

In 2024, we did Rs. 9.56Cr ($1.1M) of sales on WebVeda - which was the worst year in 3 years - for reasons known to us (and not of any worry).

Between these income streams, we earned Rs. 16.84Cr ($2Mn) as a business.

Business Unit 3: Investing
We are a profitable business (~20-25% EBITDA) and deploy the reserves of the company into various assets.
I am an aggressive investor (not recommended) and the mix of our current investments is:
1. Mutual Funds: 70L
2. PMS: 8.13Cr
3. Startup Debt: 1.62Cr
4. Startup Equity: 3.49Cr
5. Stocks India: 95L
6. Stocks US: 93L
7. Real Estate: 3.75Cr
Total: ~20Cr (USD 2.35M), which last year was around 13Cr - so an insane (and unsustainable, I should add) growth rate of 48%.

None of this investing is active. I spend less than 5 mins every month tracking or managing it - and I am happy to pay a fee to experts to manage my money for me.

Which brings me to a very important point.
A lot of us are very passive with our income.
We are living our jobs as dead people.
Showing up, burning out, earning a salary - and somehow being ok with this life.

But on the other hand, we are extremely active with our investments.
Which stock to buy, when to buy, when to sell, explore trading, dabble with FnO, join telegram stock tip groups!

What if you flipped this?
Get active with your income.
Don't just settle for a salary.
Explore ways to earn more.
Don't ever stop hustling for it.

And get passive af with your investing.
The boring SIPs.

Active with your income.
Passive with your investments.

Consider it...

IMP:
1. These numbers are revenue, not salary or money that I earn. There are a lot of expenses after this number - team salary, marketing, software.
Our profit is between 20-25% of this number.

2. The joy of running a bootstrapped business cannot be over-emphasized. At 44, this is the best way for me to grow - slow and steady.
I have an incredible team @wariCrew that I love to pamper, I am not accountable to any investors - instead to my audience and my students, I have a lot of time on hand to think and plan and I get to take long-term bets.
This very same performance for a VC-funded company would have been an absolute disaster!

3. It is intensely hard for me to share this. Not the numbers - the transparency comes easy to me and I am too self-assured to fear any judgement.
What's hard is the assumed cockiness that my mind keeps telling me, will be an outcome.
"Look at how much money I make"
"Look at how cool I am"
It is hard for me to keep this yearly disclosure objective. In the hope that I hopefully inspire you to live life differently, if you aren't happy with how you are living it so far.

Resources:
1. How we hire: https://t.co/2Yb9cMDL3v

2. How we share profits within the team:
https://t.co/2Fo9vCeIDI

3. How we pay within the team:
https://t.co/Sf5JMTo0Qb

[Jayesh Jain @arey_jainsaab]

With EY case getting some lights. I would like to share my personal experience at Deloitte.

Attaching some screenshots of chats with my team mate - friend where we were discussing the work and our health at 5AM in the morning.

We use to work for around 20 hours and they won’t even let us charge more than 15 hours.

I can totally understand what Anna would have gone through.

Always remember you are just an employee number for them. But for your family you are everything.

Corporate life is tough. Glad that I was able to get out from there in time.

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

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“Mob attacked our peaceful protest and vandalised our RG Kar hospital. Police quietly watched.”
“It is wilful failure of the state govt and police.”
“But we will not be intimidated. We will carry on our protest. Join us.”
~ brave, young doctors, take a bow.
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[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

The difference between a Woke person and a Dharmik person.

[Sandeep Pawar @sandeeppawar99]

FM Direction is very clear->Push New Tax Regime
- NPS contribution increased from 10 to 14% of the employee’s salary
- Standard Deduction increased from 50K to 75K
- Few changes in Tax Slabs which will result into saving of Rs 17,500
All applicable to New Tax Regime only