Not your average MBA admit story 👇🏽
One admit is a dream.
Getting into both? That’s 🙌🏾😮💨
Muskaan — one of my close friends, former founder, and easily one of the sharpest minds I know—just pulled off what most people wouldn’t even dare to imagine.
From launching her own startup straight out of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), (which later got acquired), to appearing on Shark Tank India, and now… being accepted into not one, but two of the most selective MBA programs in the world.
Let that sink in.
And this isn’t just a congratulatory post.
This is a reminder:
RISK PAYS OFF!!!!
She could’ve easily taken the “safe” consulting job route.
But instead, she chose to build. To bet on herself.
To live 5 years of chaos and uncertainty.
And today? It’s paid off in the biggest possible way.
(In her words: “Agar uss din yeh decision nahi liya hota, toh aaj admits nahi milte.”)
And before y’all ask “GMAT kahan se kiya?”—
She started prep with someone else, but halfway through, her co-founder Raghav introduced her to Sandeep Gupta and that’s when everything changed.
The speed. The strategy. The shortcuts.
Sandeep sir made a massive difference.
(She cracked a 750 equivalent score in just 3–4 months.)
When I asked her “Why MBA now?”, her answer was such a refreshing mix of ambition, self-awareness, and vision.
She said:
“Coming from a non-tech background, I’d often find myself in rooms where I felt like an underdog during tech-first conversations.
I want to work at AI-first companies. I want to be where the future is being built.
She wanted to surround herself with people who think decades ahead, not just years, and these schools are at the forefront of that.
Most importantly—to grow into a founder 2.0..”
So proud of you, Muskaan.
You’ve already inspired hundreds of us—and now, you’re about to inspire the world.
Can’t wait to see what you build next.
Harvard or Stanford—whichever you choose (the kind of problems we all wanna have :p), they’re lucky to have you.
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