Team lead of Visionary Ventures, the only team to represent VIT Vellore at E-Cell, IIT Bombay's national challenge — All India Rank 140, in the first semester of the degree.
The National Entrepreneurship Challenge is run by the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay and it is not a hackathon. It runs for months rather than a weekend, and it asks a campus team to behave like a company: build a business model worth defending, take it to a market, and keep the whole thing moving while every member is also a full-time student somewhere else.
Divyakush Punjabi led Visionary Ventures — the only team to represent VIT Vellore in that year’s challenge — to All India Rank 140, in the first semester of the B.Tech.
The work divided into innovative business models and go-to-market strategy, and the difficulty was rarely the idea. It was deciding under uncertainty against a fixed deadline, holding a distributed team to a schedule nobody was being paid to keep, and carrying accountability for output produced by people you cannot see.
It is the earliest thing on this timeline for a reason: leading before knowing how to is where most of what came later was actually learned.
Divyakush Punjabi