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Drishti Gupta

3 years

We are proud to announce that Now&Me has raised USD 1 Million (INR 7.3 Crores) in seed funding from @SaamaCapital ( @AshLilani ) & Whiteboard Capital ( @anshuprasher @sandeepmtandon ) (1/5)

[Exclusive] Mental health startup Now&Me raises $1M led by Saama and Whiteboard Capital

The funding will be used for team expansion, developing their product and focus on community-building efforts.

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From college besties to Forbes 30 Under 30 🫶🙏💕

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If you want to market well, study human psychology. If you want to understand human psychology, study marketing.

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Running a startup is just thinking about taking a break tomorrow but the tomorrow never comes.

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Running a startup feels a lot like dying and barely surviving every single day

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Running a startup is all about finding the right people who believe in you - teammates, users, investors.

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Rate my work setup 😝

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Running a startup is all about good storytelling

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Life as a founder

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Running a startup is all about being consistent, keeping hope, & refusing to give up.

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Monday mornings as a startup founder: It’s only 11am and I’ve already spoken to 11 people since morning.

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The best kinda people are addicted to coffee and building their startups.

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Running a startup is all about managing emotions (and expectations)

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New York or Mumbai

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- tech - design - product - marketing - community - brand building - financial planning - admin & compliances - hiring & team management Being a startup founder is all about being good at context-switching🤯

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2 years

Tell me you’re the elder sibling without telling you’re the elder sibling

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3 years

I come back every week to tweet the same thing: Connect me to kickass backend, frontend, react-native engineers😅 No point in writing “we’re hiring” because I’ve realised that startups are always hiring :))))) For real tho, pls connect/tag them here

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Today a candidate asked me - “How old are you? Because you look younger than me” - while I was taking their interview😶

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2 years

Are we doing this @peakbengaluru thing right or what

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Running a startup is all about committing to being a lifelong student. The learning never stops.

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Unpopular opinion but it’s actually simple to make new friends. Literally everyone’s lonely and looking for meaningful friendships.

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Running a startup is all about having answers to everybody’s questions - users, teammates, investors, strangers on the internet.

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Like father, like daughter

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2 years

We decided to dress up like startup tech bros today to take over @peakbengaluru

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2 years

As a first time founder who’s always torn b/w product features and marketing - I’m realising this now that no matter what industry you’re in, the only way you can level up your startup game is by Marketing. Good Marketing💪

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3 years

My irl friends don’t understand my startup jokes. Petition to create a Twitter group to just share startup memes. Who’s in?👇🏻

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2 years

The entrepreneurial urge to get an ✨iPad✨ thinking that it’ll change my entire life & make me 100x more productive :)))

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3 years

To everyone asking: Just because we haven’t implemented a revenue model YET, doesn’t mean we won’t ever have one. Yes we’re solving for a pressing issue - mental health. But no, our startup is not an NGO.

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2 years

Not so subtle hints being dropped

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2 years

Can we just normalize talking more about how hard it is to build a company?

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3 years

Honest feelings after raising a million dollars in funding: - Anxious about what’s next - Confidence that we finally have the resources to build what we’ve always wanted to build - Uncertainty of finding great people to join our team - Pressure of performance - Gratefulness

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3 years

Fun fact: I’ve never applied for a job or placement opportunity🤔

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2 years

I literally talk to the ✨same person✨ on every app

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Co-Founder who thrives in chaos 🤝 Co-Founder who loves organising stuff

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3 years

Our newest core team hire is leaving his offer at a Unicorn🦄 & joining our early-stage startup - as he believes in our mission & has a shared vision of changing the mental health landscape🚀 This is exciting :) See what we have to offer👉🏻

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Drishti Gupta

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2 years

As a founder, your job description changes every few months - depends on how fast your startup is growing.

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2 years

March update💃 - We shifted to a bigger office space!!! - Team has expanded to ~20 people - Excited for the coming months - Feeling in control & happy

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Drishti Gupta

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2 years

We’re hiring across tech, product, seo, marketing & growth @nowandme - all details available here🌱 15+ open positions☀️ Please RT :)

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3 years

Girls just wanna build companies😉 @banisinghvasir

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3 years

WAIT WHAT?!

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Drishti Gupta

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Running a startup is all about getting used to the 100s of rejections you're going to get - from investors, potential hires, customers. You need to get used to it, get good at it, and not take it personally.

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As a startup founder, there are moments when I SUDDENLY realise the freedom I have in terms of what I can do, what I can build, which direction our product is headed. There are no limitations to my thought process & that’s a beautiful feeling. We. Can. Literally. Do. Anything.

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2 years

Free AirPods Pro for successful referrals🦋 We're scaling fast and have 15+ openings @nowandme right now⚡️ Details here: Please RT :)

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3 years

Weekend in Maldives🌊

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Backbenchers to being on the news together real quick 📈

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3 years

Hiring is hard. And stressful. Finding the right fit is not easy. Help us out? Recommend us Frontend, Backend, & React Native Engineers. Tag them here👇🏻 & please RT this tweet🤞🏻

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Drishti Gupta

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6 months

guys 50% off on nowandme for all indians for heartbreak and trauma recovery 💔😭🇮🇳 karlo code use untilnexttime🇮🇳

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

Looking for paid interns ASAP for our community & marketing teams - excellent writing & communication - bizarre, unconventional outlook - ZEST TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN send us a pitch on why you should be on the team at work @nowandme .com hustlers, we're 👀 for you

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3 years

Unpopular opinion but no business school could’ve taught me what I’ve learnt in the past 2 years while building my startup.

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2 years

Engineers & product folks in @peakbengaluru - beer’s on us. @banisinghvasir & I’d like to catchup with few folks over the weekend & get some insights. Let me know if you’re around?

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If you’re reaching out to me for a graphic designing role, what am I supposed to do with just your resume (with no links to a portfolio/work samples)🥲🥲🥲

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3 years

Stop making founders feel guilty for taking a break or going on vacation

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A short sad story: I had 50 tabs open. I clicked on the red button instead of the yellow button. Fin.

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What should be talked about more: Shared value systems & moral principles between co-founders are extremely important to run a startup together.

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My toxic habit is opening 100 tabs & articles on a topic I want to educate myself about - but then getting tired after reading the first 3

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Work setup for the day👩‍💻

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No matter how ‘sorted’ someone’s life looks - Everyone, I repeat EVERYONE, is just trying to figure it out as they go

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2 years

How NOT to reply to a founder friend when they reach out for emotional support: Founder friend: “I’m not feeling okay, nothing’s going right at work.” You: “Come on, what do you have to worry about? You’re running your own company, chill out.”

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At an early stage startup, employees with an entrepreneurial mindset and passion to learn can completely change the game🚀

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2 years

100K+ downloads📈

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Clarity solves more problems than money when building a startup

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Where do men get the audacity to come in for an interview and mansplain me things

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2 years

Need more founders to talk about how daunting and hard it can be to be a young first-time founder rather than making it look like they’ve got it all figured out

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3 years

Running a startup is about day to day survival. We’re all just figuring it out along the way - one problem at a time.

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2 years

In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.

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After 1.5 years of WFH, @nowandme finally has an office & that’s the view🌈

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4 years

@toymango I have a joke on mental health but people think it’s just in my head

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2 years

hello 2022👋🏻

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pov: you’re a founder & you’re travelling for work

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1 year

2020 vs 2023

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2 years

13th February 2019 - I put up this story on my Instagram. The day @banisinghvasir and I started working on @nowandme together. Happy National Startup Day :)

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Drishti Gupta

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rate my setup

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

Who is #BuildingInPublic ? Would love to follow a few founder journeys. I know @Rahul_J_Mathur is 🚀 Who else? Please share👇🏻

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Drishti Gupta

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2 years

I guess I’m 24 now🙋🏻‍♀️

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

I’m 23 & here’s my roadmap so far: 👩‍🎓Degree: Bachelor’s in Stats (LSR 2016-19) 👩‍🏫Professional Course: Actuarial Science (Institute of Actuaries UK, cleared 4 papers, 2016-18) 🏋🏼‍♀️Passion Project: Weightlifting Insta Blog (2019) 👩‍💻Startup: Now&Me (2019-Present) What about you?

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Drishti Gupta

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We had 1 Million organic impressions for @nowandme on Google in the last 3 months. From learning SEO myself to gradually building a team of skilled individuals, had to work our way up through ALL the steps. And, the best part? We loved every bit of it. This is just the start :)

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Drishti Gupta

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2 years

When you’re hiring for 15+ roles, your calendar looks something like this

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Cold emailing is great and all but someone just asked to be a co-founder @nowandme over text

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I’m almost 25 & paying taxes still stresses me out🫠

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Startup Founder Wrapped 2021 - You were consistent and showed up every day for 365 days in a row, no matter what struggle came your way. That’s all. And that’s all that matters.

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Woke up to a 200% spike in DAUs today :)

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Running a startup is all about being okay with the fact that most of the times the things you think will work will not work out in your favour.

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2 years

We’re looking for a freelance UI/UX Designer for an app-based project @nowandme Would be great if you can share some recommendations, thanks :)

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

Petition to change the ‘Founder’ title to ‘Fire Extinguisher’🧯 Who’s with me?🙇🏻‍♀️

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Drishti Gupta

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2 years

Surround yourself with people who empower you, believe in you, and uplift you. There are good days, bad days, and ok days but certain people in life manage to make everything better. Find those people and keep them close.

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3 years

What’s a fact about you that most people find surprising? I’ll go first👇🏻 I can deadlift 110kgs🏋🏼‍♀️

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Work setup for the day💪🏻

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3 years

I have major respect for solo founders who are managing EVERYTHING by themselves. It’s tough. 👇🏻Tag solo founders below. Let’s appreciate them, their hard-work, & consistency.

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2 years

Somebody wrote their entire job application in the subject line of an email with a blank body and sent it to me🥲

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Drishti Gupta

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1 year

🎉 Exciting news: Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Consumer Tech 🚀 This wouldn’t have been possible without the support & belief of our amazing team, users, family memebers, investors, & friends. Thank you for being a part of our journey. More to come 🚀 @banisinghvasir @nowandme

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2 years

Meet @nowandme ’s newest full-stack developaw🐾

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

Probably the ONLY reason why I don’t like travelling is that I’m too attached to my work setup🙇🏻‍♀️ 👩🏻‍💻at home 👩🏻‍💻elsewhere

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Drishti Gupta

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3 years

Hey everyone. These are extremely tough and lonely times for all of us. I’m sharing a few mental health resources here. Please feel free to share and retweet. Might help someone👇🏻

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Drishti Gupta

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Good or bad, take accountability of what you do.

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