Varun Agarwal

Varun Agarwal (born 6 December 1986) is an Indian entrepreneur, film maker and author. He has co-founded three companies and authored a national bestseller, How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company.^[1][2][3]

Varun Agarwal
Varun Agarwal
Born	(1986-12-06) 6 December 1986 (age 38) Bangalore, India
Occupation	Author, entrepreneur, film maker and investor
Nationality	Indian
Notable works	How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
Website
varunagarwal.in

Early life

Brought up in Bangalore, Varun did his schooling from Bishop Cotton Boys' School and studied engineering at CMR Institute of Technology.^[1]

Entrepreneur

Varun has co-founded three startups, Alma Mater, an online store for merchandise especially for students of colleges and schools which was started in 2009, Reticular, a social media marketing company started in 2010, and Last Minute Films, a production company for online video content which was started in 2005.^[4][5][6]

Alma Mater

Varun says that the current aim of the company is to become profitable as well as more responsible.^[7]

Alma Mater has also launched a customised online Do-It-Yourself (DIY) online T-shirt maker tool called PLAY. The user can join or create a group, make custom T-shirts with an online editing tool, share it with friends and group members and invite others to join.^[8][9]

Mento

Varun Agarwal also founded an online e-learning platform name Mento^[10] which is also India's first Ed-tech platform^[11] for creative courses.

Author

How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company was rolled out in 2012 by Rupa publishers and is a national bestseller. ‘How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded A Million Dollar Company’ had already hit the number 5 spot on the Amazon India bestsellers list.^[6][1]

Music Video

He has teamed up with a Bangalore-based stand-up comedian Sanjay Manaktala to make a music video called ‘Anu Aunty, Engineering Anthem’ based on his book.^[12] This video, which went viral, was featured on The Enthu Cutlets, a channel promoted by Varun in 2014 to showcase Bengaluru's comedians.^{[13][14][15][16]}

The Movie

Siddharth Roy Kapur and Ronnie Screwvala will be making a movie named Tumse Na Ho Payega, which is an adaptation of Varun's book ‘How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-founded A Million Dollar Company’. Nitesh Tiwari, who directed the Bollywood movie Dangal, is working on this new film.^{[17][18][19][16]}

Motivational speaker

Agarwal has given talks to executives at Unilever in London, college students in Pune and to employees of tobacco firm Philip Morris in Macau.^[12][3][20]