The academic staff union of University of Zassu has extended its warning strike by another two months. A National Executive Council member of the union who spoke anonymously confirmed the developments to reporters. He noted that ASU made the decision at its prolonged meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC. Now the NEC meeting was held at the union's national secretariat at the University of Abuja. Earlier, we were joined by Dili Ashiru, the NEC's ASU Chairman, Udillab Chapter. We met at the weekend at our National Executive Council meeting to review the activities of government so far concerning the demands for a strike. At that meeting, we took reports from our trustees and principal officers who have been engaging with government. The report indicated that government had not shown enough seriousness in addressing the demands that led to the declaration of the strike action. Specifically, we noted that to be late in setting up a review panel for a report that we have concluded since May 2021 and that while discussions was going on with NIDDA on the suitability of UTAs for the Nigerian University system, the Director-General of NIDDA, without consultation with those meeting with us, went on air misleading Nigerians that the software developed by Nigerian Academy had failed. We considered these two critical reports among others and came to the conclusion that government needed some time to be able to clearly address the demands that we have made. It was in the light of these that NEC decided that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks with a view to giving enough time to government and its agents to be able to quickly and finally address those demands so that our students can return back to campus. It is our expectation that if this government loves Nigerians and are passionate about the development of Nigeria, two weeks may even be too much for government to address these demands because in any case they are not fresh demands. They are demands that we have had over the years and the government exactly knows what to do to bring this strike to a closure. In the meantime, as the academic staff union of university has also rolled over its strike to Tiemont, the federal government has reacted to the extension saying it has met all the demands of the union. The Minister of State for Education Chukwamek and Wajuba insisted that all earned allowances as well as revitalization funds had been released.


I can't hear you well. Why are you saying you? You're pointing at me, I might as well. But I don't, I just, I don't know. I didn't think you were saying that bad. I was not expecting you to say that bad. I thought you were saying that bad. What is up, Marvel Squad? Welcome back to our channel. If you guys are new, make sure to go hit that subscribe button and turn on your post notifications so you always get notified every single time we post. This is the real intro, okay? So if you guys are confused, whatever you see after this, that's the intro that Meg thinks that, you know, the video that they're doing. But this is the real intro. So listen up, guys. This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very important announcement that you guys don't want to miss out. We're about to hit 100,000 and we're doing a big giveaway for the first time. Bill's mom was like, you guys got to go big. Yeah, she came up with some bomb ideas and we were doing everything in one of them. We're not going to go into depth of what is going to be going down, but this is what we're, I'm just gonna give you a little summary. So we're doing a 500 mile contest that within the Illinois area, we're going to take two people to come meet us, have, stay the night with us in like a hotel and have dinner with us. The second one is we're gonna have four people to win our customized merch that nobody else has. So it's like- Like the good, the good is like all round looking merch. Yeah, exclusive. Like that's the expensive stuff. Yeah. You're gonna be getting it for free. For free. So we'll pick four contestants. So it's already- Four. Four. So that's already six people, okay? Then we have one more person that is going to win an Apple watch. And guys. Watch out for that. To be a part of this, you have to make sure you're following our Instagrams, Twitters, showing love on our YouTube. Make sure you guys are subscribed. All the above. And don't worry though, if you don't have one of them, like it's fine. If you don't use Instagram or YouTube. But if you do, it's just that much better of a chance that you'll get into winning. Because the more we see your name pop up, like in our comments, if we see it pop up on more than one social media platform, then we'll, you know, pick you more than we would pick someone if they just commented once and then that was it. You know. Make sure you guys are showing as much love as you can. Brought to you at 100,000. So I know it might be a while, but make sure you're telling everybody. So you guys. Oh, and you guys will be filming a video with us. We could do like a prank. We're gonna film a video. So we'll come up with a video or all of us will come up with a video. But you and your friend can come up with a video. Come over here, go out to dinner, film a video, whatever you want to do. And we'll pay for your gas. Everything will be covered. If you guys don't win that, don't worry. Couple more things that you guys could possibly win. So do not think that if you don't live in a 500 mile distance to us, which is an Illinois area, then you still have other chances to win. For an e-merge and an Apple watch. Don't miss on that. The reason why we're doing this so early, we were gonna start at 95,000 and just go be like, oh, we're almost at 100K. You know, let's do this. But this is so we could track who's like showing the most love. Because I've seen over time, you could see really the people that stay with you and the people that just comment once, you see, you shout out whatever, and then they're gone. And I've seen so many people from when we had 10,000 subs, I still see their names popping up everywhere. I know, I have a lot of people that haven't mine. Guys, don't worry. We're obviously not gonna pick the final ones until the very end when we hit 100,000. Exactly. So we're gonna stop babbling about that. So everything will be down below. Trust me down below, that's it. And trust me down below. So guys. Now the juice. Megan thinks that she's flirting with Bill. He's putting right back.  Meg, you have such a beautiful rounded tongue. I just threw up in my mouth. I threw up in my mouth too. But anyways guys, that's the video we are filming today. So stay tuned. I'm gonna play their intro, the one that they're gonna make.  Under her. Under the bridge kind of thing, you know. And we're gonna get Meg and we're gonna make her very uncomfortable. And I gotta be careful now because Megan and Anthony just started a channel and I don't know if they're ever gonna get me. So I gotta be very well aware. And don't worry guys. I'm smart. So I can hence things. We'll see you guys when we film Megan's prank. See you later. Prank. What is up Marvel Squad? And welcome back to our channel. If you guys are new, make sure you go hit that subscribe button, turn your post notifications so you always get notified every single time we post. And as you can see, I'm with my twin sister, Megan. Hello. And there is this video going around where you get your best friend or your sister or your brother to flirt with your significant other and see how he reacts. So what Megan is here for today is she's gonna flirt with Bill and see how he reacts.  Ooh, I like your outfit. It looks really good today. And I told her to go up and be like, I think maybe it's because you're getting really, ooh, you're looking really musky. They're going to feel his muscles and just be totally funny with it. Megan's gonna open the door for him and answer the door for him and basically what's gonna go down is she is going to tell him that I'm upstairs going to the bathroom, taking number two, TMI there, but that's not actually what I'm gonna be doing. But just so it looks like I'm gonna be upstairs longer. So he doesn't assume that I'm listening because when we're upstairs, you can't hear anything that's going on downstairs. So it's gonna be totally perfect and I'm so excited. Before we get on to this video, we do gotta give our beginning of the video post notification shout out.  Stephanie, Pet Rosa, she said RIP, grandma's makeup bag. Like I said, make sure you give this video a big thumbs up. If you're not already subscribed, make sure you go hit that subscribe button and we're almost to 100,000 big moves are coming and I am super excited. So we will see you guys when he gets here. We're gonna film this downstairs. We're gonna have to go set up the camera and find a camera spot because we have no idea what we're filming in. But we will see you guys when he gets here and Megan gets her prank on. Oh yeah. All right guys, we'll see you guys down there. That was a good. How are you? Oh, I've been starving myself. Looks like you're getting pretty big though. I've been starving myself. Why are you touching me? I like that. I like your muscles. You're definitely working out. You just look really good today. What are you doing again? Like, I wanna talk to you. Yeah. Do you like that? Yeah, I do a lot with you. You got abs too. Push your abs. I don't have abs. You don't have any? I'm working on it though because like I've been like eating healthier lately. I'm trying to get fit. You know what I mean? Yeah, you're so cute. You know. You serious? I don't know what your sister is doing. Don't say that. You're saying it looked good. I know she doesn't even know. You said it looked really good. Well, she's not gonna know. It's on my belt. It's a late possibility to see a shirtless. Sorry? It's so nice. Yeah, I'm gonna see your thing. Do I have a few minutes? No.  You seem to be built. Built? Oh, definitely. I'm built. I don't think Anthony's built. I don't think Anthony's built. I can't say that you look built. Why is it? Why does that matter? Because a belt like this or built like Anthony is a different belt. I just look really good. He's like built like. Yes. He looks really good too. But you look. I'm like built. But you just look really, really good. All the time. Yeah. Thanks. Why are you doing this? I feel like I do. You should be saying that I do. I can't say that you look good. And then you're hot. She feels good. I mean, she feels weirded out. Are you weirded out? It doesn't matter. I mean, I think you look good, but I don't understand it because I don't want them to get weirded out. Oh, that's good that you can go out good too. So you want me then? Huh? So you want me then? It's not that I want you. I just think you look good. You're literally twins with your sister. So it's not making you uncomfortable, but I think you look good.  But you just said you liked me first. Huh? You just said you liked me first, so... We liked each other first. Back in the day. So I'm very, very stopped in there. Thinking about that, why did you? Why did you? Because you were. I called you like probably nights like that. I'm going to get a haircut. Tomorrow I'm going to get your haircut. Well, even if you feel nice, because I'm sorry, you just look really good today. And when you get a haircut, it's a picture you have in your haircut. Yeah. But you don't know me. But you actually think my hair looks good then? Yeah, I just like my hair.  Why are you saying you? You're playing with me, I might as well... But I don't, I just, I don't know, I didn't think you were sort of bad. I was not expecting you to say that bad. I thought you'd be like, Ew, stop talking like that to me. What? What is wrong? Every single time I say something, you freak out. Then I have to stop it right here, because I can't hear you. Why? Because I'm pranking you. You see that camera over there?  Are you kidding me? What? I didn't care. No, no, no, no, no, no. I was sitting right there, and those were real boring, hard things. I was pranking you, Bill. So you want her? No, no, I already said no. I mean, yeah, but no.  I wasn't actually being serious, Bill. So you don't feel good? That, I've never said that. You just told my sister. What is your problem? Get out of my house. Get out of my house, that's. You guys are joking. That's messed up. I didn't say anything bad. No, did I say anything about you? Yes, he said you liked her first. You always think she's hot or something like that. No, I'm not hot or anything like that.  Get out of my house.  Why do you have to set me up? Because that's messed up. You don't just hit out my sister. We have a whole YouTube channel. And she got a whole boyfriend with a YouTube channel. Why do you think I was saying that?  Bill, but when do I ever say that to you? No. Bill, get out of my house.  That's messed up. No, don't touch me. No, don't, Bill, don't touch me. You have everything, I thought you were getting mad. And you're saying that stuff? I'm mad now. I think this prank turned over to a whole new level. To a whole new level. You're not posting this anywhere. Yes, we are. We're not exposing you, yes, we are. Because that just shows, expose it to me. Get away from me. No, get away from me. You don't deserve my attention right now. That's messed up. Babe, come here. Get away from me. Step away. That's messed up. This is literally like you're catfishing. This is not fair. You were just making me. Why would you see this at the her anyways? That wasn't true. I didn't really say anything bad. Yes, you did. I was just trying to be nice to me. I was being nice to her. It doesn't matter. It's my twisters out. Anything that could tell me I look hot. Can we just like stop this and get out of their lives and not post it? I've been talking to you now. No, it's messed up. Can we just not post this anywhere and just like, nah. Why are you doing this? That's messed up, Bill, really messed up. Unless you saw the camera and you knew and now you're pranking us. Well, actually. I pranked you. I don't like you.   Yeah, I know it's so uncomfortable. What ugly. I feel so uncomfortable. Let me get the camera guys. Talk about a prank backfiring on you. How do you feel right now? Tell the camera. Tell the Marvel Squad. I feel really uncomfortable. I don't like that. You feel uncomfortable right now? Yes, I was like trying to joke with you. I didn't know what to say. I didn't want to say any of that stuff. And then you first. I didn't know how to slowly slip it in. But was it weird when I started saying nice things back to you? Yeah. And then after, I was like, all right, I'm gonna go just straight into it and I just put it all out there. So. That's really, I don't like that. We got you.  You think you could prank me? You can't. I'm unprankable.  Don't even talk, Mariah. Don't even talk, Marvel Squad. Unless you're team Bill. I told you about this prank. So actually, I was being so weird. She's like, not wanting to set up a camera. She was like, I'm like, dude, Bill's about to be there. Did you have any idea? No. No? Zero idea. Zero idea. She didn't know. Hey. All right guys, we just pranked Megan. Team Marvel. Yeah, when we're together pranking someone else, it's team Marvel. So can we get a team Marvel down in the comments? That'll be great. We did a whole fake intro. She thought we were doing, that's why I barely put any effort in that intro because we're gonna be obviously making them. That's so weird. You don't have to worry though. Yes, I know. Good, cause that was really weird. I saw you were looking at me like, this is never gonna be the same. This is gonna be messed up. This is gonna be messed up. This is gonna be messed up. I wanna say one thing. If you guys skipped the intro, please go back and re-watch that because we announced our giveaway and what we're gonna be doing for a giveaway. You do not wanna miss out on that. So if you haven't, go re-watch your intro with me and Bill and we were talking about how we are doing our giveaway and we want you guys to be part of it. So please read about it and- Go re-watch it, cause I know you guys skipped the intro. Anyways guys, we just pranked Mariah's sister, Megan. It's so annoying. It's so annoying. Mariah's twin sister, Megan. And yeah, I don't like you. I don't like you either. I never liked you. Before we end this video, we do gotta give our end of the video post notification shout out. And this shout out goes to Asia Bellum Kadam. Shout out to you. You sing very well. Keep going. Hey, she actually thinks that. Yeah, hey guys, don't literally watch my singing but watch my singing cause in last video, didn't even realize she was filming obviously and I started singing very embarrassing. I did not want to post that part. I wanted to cut that out but Mariah made me keep it in. So rip me. Just hope I get some good feedback. Anyways guys, we will see you guys in the next video. But until then. Peace.


Good afternoon, everyone. And a warm welcome to the sharks. Please a warm round of applause to the sharks as we welcome them here. Venita and Amit have joined us here today. And you know, we're extremely delighted to have them. And truly, you know, if somebody has gone forward and revolutionized the investment space, the angel investing space in India, it's really both of them who are doing some great work out there. So thank you very much for joining us. You know, before I sort of get into poor your investor and we understand, you know, how you as a shark, as an investor, how do you look at it? We'd love to know a little more about your journey, Venita. I know you've been in an entrepreneur and after finishing your education, you decided to take the plunge immediately. And so we'd love to know a little more about how you did it, what made you go for it, and how was it that you became an entrepreneur? We have a house full of entrepreneurs today looking to start or just started. So it would be great inspiration for them. Sure. Thank you so much, Ritu. First, every time Ritu or her team, they call me to come to one of these events. It's very hard for me to say no, because in my early years as an entrepreneur, 2007, eight, I remember reading the magazine and before entrepreneurship became cool in India and before other mainstream media started speaking about entrepreneurs that entrepreneurship is not equivalent to Beirose Gaari. And it can be an aspirational profession. I think her team was doing that. And I'm very grateful, because I've been around in the ecosystem for 15 years. And I think in the... So when I started at 23, I was, of course, very naive, all kinds of stupid. So when I thought about what's the first business that I want to start, I overestimated how easy it was to build a very large business. So my plan was that before I turn 30, I'm gonna have a publicly listed company. And the first few years were very hard. We actually started a business where we were trying to use tech in background verification. And it was a B2B company. And it didn't go. I think the max revenue we got to was about three crores. And we'd never raised any funding because, again, we overestimated how easy it was to extract money from corporate clients. And we always thought the best kind of funding is when the customer funds you. So we bootstrapped that company for about five years. And then it didn't scale. And I had exited that. My husband, who's also my co-founder now, Kaushik, he had tried running another business and that had failed. So he had gone to McKinsey.  We thought that the first business didn't scale because we didn't try raising capital. So next time we start a business, we're gonna make a super scalable funded business. And my passion was always to do something in women consumer space because I just thought that there was so many opportunities around young women in India because this was one demographic that was changing most rapidly. The demographic that never had access to education, employment opportunities was suddenly stepping out and taking charge of her own destiny, which meant that the kind of product she would invest in would be very different from what her mom did. And so, and Kaushik wanted to do something in e-commerce because it was also the time where, you know, the entire, I think in the next 10 years, we saw the entire digital market go to about 100 million consumers. And so we launched this company called FabBag, which was a subscription business. And we thought that the way to raise capital early on was to do something that was so innovative, so hot case. So this was a subscription business where we had an algorithm that could curate products for consumers based on their very detailed beauty profile. And it was so complicated that even the consumers didn't understand. And, but because at that time we went, both of us had a decent educational background.  And I think that was even bigger mistake than bootstrapping my previous business because before product market fit, we got venture capitalists as an angel investors on board, which meant that you're on the treadmill. The moment the day you raise somebody's money, you're accountable, you have to give it back or you have to, you know, raise a future round. And before product market fit, we raised this early angel round and then we started scaling this subscription commerce business. And for three years, we kept trying to hustle, scale it, getting brands on board, getting consumers, got to about 18,000 subscribers, which for a subscription business I later realized was a lot. But when you have product market fit, you feel it because, you know, your product really starts growing organically. But we were on that treadmill of performance marketing where to acquire every single consumer, you had to spend more and more. And that's when we realized that we don't really have a product market fit. And we were very close to thinking about shutting this down because we had almost run out of capital. But based on the 500,000 women who we had over the last three years spoken to, we found something that turned out to be eventually a massive opportunity, which was to create products, to build a brand that could make products that were perfect for these young women. And at that time, thinking of launching a brand in 2015 was super hard because every single board meeting, we would have this conversation where our investors would say, you know, it takes about 50 crore. I mean, that was a number we would always discuss in all these conversations. 50 crore lakh there to build a brand in India because there is no way without putting the product on television that anybody will come and buy your products. And we had the last 30 lakhs left in our bank account. And so for many quarters, we kept thinking of this idea of should we try it or should we just use the last 30 lakhs to pay all our dues, pay our teams and shut it down. And then of course, there was this, the more we spoke to these women who are our consumers, we realized that there's something that's happening which other brands, the other FMCG companies that had the largest brands in India had no idea about. The big shift that was happening was that these young women were beginning to shop online. They were spending a lot of time on social media. Instagram was beginning to take off and we had these brands that were saying things like, women will not put a picture of them wearing makeup on social and only 11% of online shoppers are women. So you don't have a market online. If you're trying to build a brand around women and India of course is a color cosmetics market that's per capita one eighth of the rest of the world and that's not gonna change because Indian women will only wear makeup when they go to weddings or when they go to parties. And for us, it just hurt us to the core that there were these large brands that have no idea how this young consumer is gonna dramatically change in the next decade. They're not ready for it. And we just felt that we couldn't let it happen. We couldn't let it happen that there's nobody building for this consumer. And even though it sounded hard to build a brand in India because everybody said that people would pay a premium only if the brand came from Europe or US, we decided to launch sugar back in 2015. And that of course was a time where we hadn't expected that GEO will go nuts and data in India will become the cheapest in the world which meant that suddenly as on 2023, 44% of e-commerce shoppers are women. And we hadn't expect that we could reach 100 million women on Instagram because at that time Instagram had just a couple of million women followers. And for us in this journey we realized that our journey has been the journey of the Indian woman where she has begun to take charge of her destiny. And we have this team of young, ambitious women who so closely mirror that. So we go where this consumer goes. So if she's spending time on social, we are there on YouTube, on Instagram. So we have a community of two and a half million on Instagram, one million on YouTube where we're just educating her, just let her discover products, let her fall more in love with herself, let her accept her skin tone, her skin flaws. You know, learn not to, that makeup is not equivalent to wearing foundation which is four shades lighter or you know, prescriptive definition of makeup. And through just the content and through of course our reviews which I later realized showed that we finally had product market fit. So our products went viral and on Amazon, on Nica, we had thousands of reviews, 4.7 star and without spending a rupee on marketing, we actually got to our first two crores a month number and contrast this to Fabbag where for every single consumer, we had to spend on average on a cake of about 400, 500 rupees. So I saw in my own journey what it's like to finally discover product market fit. And then of course, then the learning was that to raise capital you also need to have a very, very large market which we did not have for color cosmetics back in 2015 but luckily the market started growing. It's one of those markets which is currently growing at about 16% year on year. The e-commerce market is going from one billion dollars to about four and a half billion the next four to five years. So I feel that over the next two, three decades there will be a lot of opportunities around brands especially for young women and luckily we chanced upon it through many, many failed attempts at trying to build a business but this one just feels right again. No, I think every journey and your journey is so inspirational, Venita because the fact that you've hustled so much and then failed and then decided to do it again it takes so much energy and just so much self-confidence to say, no, nothing's gone wrong and we're gonna push it out again. So congratulations on building that beautiful entrepreneurial journey. And now of course as an investor when you're doing so much to help other women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs at large to find their mojo and to help them come up and be able to do their thing. So thank you. Amit, of course we've seen your journey as an entrepreneur, we've seen how you've grown and grown so fast in the last few years. And we'd love to know a little more about how you started out where you went wrong, where you went right and how you hustled and built a great empire for yourself. We started back in 2007 when startup game did not exist. There was nothing like startup, angel fund and all this structured point that existed, nothing existed. We started business for ourselves and that was probably blessing in disguise because we were not doing it to raise money and anybody I meet as a young entrepreneur I always say don't start up to raise money because that's the worst thing you can do to your company. So we kept on running profitably for the next seven years. In 2013 we raised the first sum. Between seven to 13 we started many sites like almost 10 startups I did. I wanted to build something large, I did not know what. So we kept on experimenting. What I was good at was coding and I was good at digital marketing. So I knew SEO well, I understood Facebook, Google very well. And we did not have money to spend on marketing which was a blessing in disguise. So CAC was practically zero. And till date at Cardiq and other properties we have are 95% traffic is organic. So we don't have to spend money on customer acquisition. I think that's what differentiated the company through that having no money basically meant that you have to discover, innovate and find a way to acquire Kandima without spending a dime. And you won't believe that when we, in 2013 when we raised the first sum we did not have a Google account to market or a Facebook account to market. We did not create any.  We want to audit. And I said if you don't spend anything we have not spent a dollar, they don't believe. There is a company with largest auto category traffic not spending a single rupee till 2013. After that of course we created some accounts. Still I believe that as a young Amit not having money was a blessing in disguise. I was very hungry so we kept on pivoting again and again and again and again without realizing we were actually pivoting. It was more like, it's my paisa ni bane gaya, it's my paisa bane gaya. So I just kept on doing things that will give me cash back because there's no pool to support it. Between 7 to 13 the things that shut down I shut down a jewelry site, I shut down a e-commerce site which I started to sell mobiles. And there were people who were raising money and discounting the mobiles and I did not want to do all that. I wanted to build for profits. And I think that probably helped us keep on pivoting. So I then created a price comparison site where I let others sell at loss and I will make money on the traffic I know how to acquire. I had revenue of that site became 50 like a month back in 2011. And I was investing maybe two lakh, one lakh in development. I was very frugal in building teams around me also. I was a developer myself so we hired freshers. Like intern the 10,000 bucks a month and I trained them myself. So my development costs also became very low. Then we hired sales team in similar format. I would go sell it to dealers myself and I would take young freshers along with me to sell and they would get coached and again 10, 15,000 interns. When people tell me, I need money, I say you know, you have to first learn how to basically create a process which is frugal enough. So you're not raising to survive but you're raising to scale and create playbooks. So what I did very well was in Jaipur, my hometown. I started creating playbooks. I learned how to sell to used car dealers. I learned how to sell to new car dealers. Then I sent people out to replicate the playbook in other cities. And every single business that I do till date, I create a playbook in my own town Jaipur and then I go out with that. That has helped me build more sustainably. Of course, to scale faster, you have to invest in brand, other things which we do. But fundamentally, my transaction never loses money and that's what I've always focused on till. You'll see me in Shakti asking a lot of unit economics. It's for that reason. I'm trying to figure out where are you burning? And if you're burning, is it a healthy one? If you're investing in tech, innovation, I appreciate such burns. But if you're discounting the transaction or losing money on the transaction, I usually don't like to invest in such businesses for that very reason. I love to see businesses which have hustled an innovator on the CAC side, customer acquisition side. I love to invest in people who have built a brand without spending money on Instagram, for example, New Age Ways or building brands. So I've seen how constraints can create these kind of innovation and that has happened to me. Be hungry is all I can say. Be lean while you build it. And I think that's such valuable lessons for anybody who's building a startup out here. And we always talk about burn and here is an entrepreneur and a shark who says don't burn, you don't need to burn. So that's great advice too, I think. Sometimes we just need to think of more ingenious ways to be able to figure our way around. So burn to expand the playbook, multiply faster because it will require large manpower costs to start with. But if your playbook that finally gives cash, it will come back eventually, right? So have a playbook which is generating cash. It will require very little investment. I'll just break the problem down. Usually what I do, and that's what I advise to every young entrepreneur, you don't have to capture India. You have to just capture your local pin code. Or local pin code is large enough then capture the Aldarsh Nagar mall. Doesn't matter. Just form that small playbook that works for you which generates cash back. Then it's about expand it to pin code, expand it to city, expand it to state, expand it to India. And you know how much it will take to build those teams around. And don't go too fast. Time's up, it's not in my view. Market is over there, consumer is over there. Don't rush into it. Many times you will raise VC money and you'll play the GMV game. You'll grow fast. The growth on steroids will fall back, frankly. I have seen all my time in my life. Many unicorns that have raised money, have GMV game, they are trying to fix the problems they've created for themselves now. They're trying to get the burn right. DNA is wrong for the company. So create a company with good culture because if you are not creating that, it's not going to happen later. You can come to scale and say, you're going to be a profit, it's going to be very difficult. So my view is build it right from the beginning. Have a strong foundation. You'll go slow in the beginning. Look, I'll tell you, I'll give you my revenue. We made a car in 2013, we used to make 6 crore revenue, 6CR. Now let's do around commission revenue. I don't talk GMV ever because in used car GMV increases. We now do 1600 crores of commission revenue. So it's about 1 crore to 16 crore per year. If you reach 4 or 8 from 1, the compounding effect gets very fast. If your foundation is strong. So my view is build playbooks and then multiply. And that's the right way to do it. I think that's great and the numbers look great too. I mean, that's for sure. So you know, I'll also love to know a little more about, you know, from you because we have a tech community here. We have deep tech startups. We have every startup which is just beginning to grow and grow big in India. So my point is that, you know, we're in the middle of a startup revolution. In our country. And the funds are always going to fall short of, you know, the amount of startups that will be chasing them. So what would you advise them? You know, obviously, because just for the reason that you've not been able to do it, not follow their dreams or build their business. So how do you advise them to sort of look for capital? How, and if at all, you know, they can do less capital and be able to grow. So what do you tell startups on that? Yeah, first advice would be that, you know, when you look at something like a shark tank and you see what's happening there. And of course, what happened in 2021 in India, it is definitely very misleading because you feel that everybody gets funding, right? Now, in shark tank, the formula is that there are on in an episode with three pitches, two out of the three get funded. And in 2021, there was, of course, a lot of international US dollars that flowed into India. So it looked like every day you open the papers and you see funding announcements and you feel that, you know, this is just a natural milestone for every business to go through. And I feel that that neglects the fact that there are crores of entrepreneurs in India who are bootstrapping businesses which are fundamentally scaling from revenue that they're making from their customers really at the end of the day, the purpose of a business is to sustain itself, make profits, scale, and manage that working capital tightly. And you cannot try to think that I will build a business just to raise capital. And that can be very confusing. So firstly, I think that that whole euphoria that was in 2021 and what we see in shark tank makes it look like it's very easy, but I've been an entrepreneur for the last 15 years and after going through more than 100 VC rejections, including, I always say, that we're probably the only company that had two IC rejections, which is like the final IC approval, investment committee approval. That's the bad rejection is very rare, but that also we've had. It's very hard to raise funding. So if your entire thesis depends on raising money, then you're really taking something which is outside if you control and factoring it into your success. And if you're doing that, and there are people who play that game, then you need to play by the rules of the game. And the rules of the game, that game are that the most important, like the way to a VC is hard, I always say, is through time. So there is, like three conversations with VCs and you learn that they will say a great founder, but if it's a bad market, the market wins. Bad founder, great market, also the market wins. So the market, which is how large the market in which you're playing is, is really the most important factor when you're raising funding. And unless, and I have made that mistake of over and over again, trying to build something which was, you know, when you like become an engineer and you do an MBA, you wanna create something innovative and innovative businesses generally have to create a market. But a VC will rarely invest in something where you're creating a category. They will prefer to invest in something where there is a clearly large market. Probability of failing would be super high, but if there is a success, the outcome is very high. And many times when we see what happens on Shark Tank, there are many companies we invest in on Shark Tank which are not traditional VC definition may fundable. And don't use that as an example to think that your own not so scalable business can be funded because Shark Tank is a different program where you're trying to impact some level of grassroots startup revolution. And which is why there are a few of these companies that do get funded, probably half of what Amit and I have invested would be companies which won't be from the traditional definition, super large markets and super scalable. But there is a reason you do it because it is promoting a grassroots entrepreneurship. But if you go to the traditional definition of angel series A, series B, the most important criterion boils down to capital. And if you, if that is your game where you're saying that I will have to raise to sustain my business, then it's also important to remember that you will take six to 12 months and in a market like this, if you don't have at least 12 months of runway, then you need to figure out a way to redo your burn every month to ensure that you have at least 12 months of runway because entrepreneurs are irrationally optimistic and we're all in that situation. But fundraising, I feel, is one of those things where there is a lot of for more that has to build up also amongst those venture capitalists for you to get a check, right? So at the end of the day, easiest, people often ask me that, are you, how do you get your valuation right? I said, it's like, you know, basically what happens in a Bhaji market, right? You have three offers, you'll get the best valuation. If you have one offer, you'll never get a better valuation because at the end of the day, and then if you want to be a really hot startup, the only way is that there should be four more, a lot of people should be investing in that space. Now, all of these things, I learned in my own journey that you can't plan, you can't deliver it to precision. So for us, everybody says that, wow, D2C is so cool, 2020 made D2C was one of the most hotly invested in categories. 2021 made more D2C investment happen than any other category, which is amazing, right? Building brands out of India, so you were at the right place at the right time. But we started in 2015. At that time, most VCs said, brands out of India will never get funded because it's a crowded small market. We will never invest in this category, and it took five, six years for suddenly D2C to become the flavor of the month. Now, how do you, you can't build a business planning, oh, my category will become flavor of the month in this year, and that's how I'll plan my entire journey. You can't.  And in that journey, so we did everything from raising from friends and family to debt, managing a business with a very, very tight ship where it was profitable.  We were profitable till we were at 56 crores net revenue, and then we took a call to not be profitable for three, four years to like gain market share, and because we had the cash in bank. So it's a choice, but till 56 crores, nobody will always come. You can take a unicorn that's raised $500 million, and they are also susceptible to the market's ups and downs, which is what's happening to the social media. Yeah, no, I think you're totally right over there.  How then do you deploy that capital? Are there some good practices in which you can say that, okay, these are five things or four things you should do to make sure that you're able to get the best out of the fund that you've raised? No, I think on the previous question, I'll just say, there's no glory in raising funds. So don't think that raising funds is the glory moment. Actually, when you build a profitable business and you're able to list it or there is some strategic exit, that's when you really make money as a founder. Remember that. So I have a lot of equity left in my own company for that reason. The bootstrapping helped me retain a lot big equity into my own firm. So sometimes delaying funds is fine. I mean, you don't need to really raise, don't raise it. I'll tell you real, to 10 to 13, I got every single year, I got offers of couple of million dollars, which I did not take because that was a profit sitting in the bank. And I did not know how to deploy it. So my brother asked me, do you have a way to deploy the capital you'll raise? I said, yeah, paper me now, so he said, okay, literally, I feel like there's a glory here. You know, paper me now, I raised the fund, so don't do that. And that trap, I got saved because of Anurag, my brother and co-founder. And 10, 11, 12, every single year, a term should have a few million dollars. Then we raised cities around that to and back in 2013, or 15 million directly. We did not raise any money till that seven to 13 journey. That helped us in a way. Now coming to the deployment of funds, look, when we raise one, in any case, you have to build a plan and you have to submit before you raise. So it's usually a very structured plan given to investors at the stage I raised. But if it's a very early stage company, it will be very different. My view would be, if you are gonna optimize your money spends to bring innovation that can be permanent in terms of lower CAGs or technology built to reduce operations cost or technology used to increase revenue, either way it works. That kind of is a good work to have. But if you're gonna just fund that transaction, that's the worst way you can use the money in my view. And what will happen to you as an investor will expect you to go from X to 10X. So what you will feel is that I have to grow the GMV quickly. And that is the trap I'm trying to call out here. Don't get into that trap because fundamentally you don't build strong businesses in that zone. You have to step back and think what is the good use of money. If I'm building technology, I'm hiring a lot of developers, but what am I expecting out of it? So I have a very KPI driven approach that I invest in technology only for three reasons. Either it will save some money. It means I'll automate some process, I'll introduce chatbots, I'll introduce something that will reduce the cost. Second is it will be something that will increase my revenue. The technology intervention will give me digital reach or something that will increase revenue. So I am investing in digital distribution or something that is organic in nature. Third, it will increase consumer experience. So that's another critical piece that you must invest that you've made the process smoother for your end user. So I try to deploy money in these three and I have a measurable number that I take from my team. That give me dollars you will make through this product intervention. That has helped us prioritize our money better. Otherwise, I have to deploy money for growth, not for maintenance. And that's the key part how I look at a capital. Second, I think I try to avoid performance marketing where it is negative in economics. So my performance, so I always talk to my team that if we raise money, we have to make sure that the other guy has to burn five times us. So if my click is coming, I mean 50 paisa and I'm still able to do marketing at 50 paisa in my category by the way. So 50 paisa or click is possible in cars category then your category is also possible. So, but you have to learn how to do it. It's a deep art of optimizing your campaign which I personally learned when I had no money and still works. So my point of view is that don't fall into trap of spending like more than what you can get back and name of, you know, lifetime value and whatever, unless it's a really repeat product that you have got into hand, then it's okay to spend. But if you have no repeat codes, I would avoid the trap of spending in the hope that somebody will repeat. Break the problem into smaller parts, Jaipur le lo ya koi lokal area le lo, waha par spend kar lo, bhaat hum main ho jaya ka poori India mein want ka. Aur uspe deko repeat codes kaite bitha na, aur playbook one ke poori India mein expand kar lo, no problem. But don't deploy a performance capital, usme sathya tha rich ore in Google or Facebook, aap ne ore. Reality again. So please, Kandav, your cash deploying innovation is what I would say. No, I think.


Welcome back to another vlog. This is moving vlog number two and we are picking back up pretty much where I left off in the last one. It's still day one in the apartment. I got the keys this morning. Where I ended the last vlog I went back to my old apartment, took a little bit of a break, ate some dinner, packed up a little bit more and then my friend came over and helped me. We loaded up both of our cars. I got Benny. He's back there. Benny. Here he is.  Let me bring my air mattress and some pajamas just in case I end up feeling too tired to drive back. I don't know.  He doesn't get it but I just feel so tired and I know I'm going to want to come back here first thing in the morning anyway to unpack and before I bring more stuff over I want to unpack what is already here. So like I may as well just stay the night here because it'll just make it easier in the morning. I got Benny's food. I got the essentials I need. So we're going to stay here tonight and I just got ready for bed but I wanted to show you the progress that I made so far. I mean it doesn't really look that much different from where I last left off but there's a lot more boxes in here now. We brought a lot more stuff over. I showed you guys in the last one I had put the table together. We finished putting together the rest of the chairs. These are from Ernest. I have a discount code if you would like to get these chairs they're so cute and they're so comfy and I brought my bar cart over from the old apartment and I brought some stuff like paper plates and some oatmeal. That way in the morning I will have something to eat and I don't have to keep ordering food. In one of these boxes oh I think in this one I brought my Nespresso machine yes and some pods so I can make coffee the most important thing in the morning. In the bedroom we put together one of these nightstands. How freaking beautiful. I am obsessed. It is so cute. I have another one that's going to go on the other side of the bed obviously but I was just too tired to put together the second one but I love this. Like these knobs just look so vintage and it makes this look so much more expensive. I mean while I got the set from Amazon and it was like just over a hundred dollars for the two of them together then that lamp is from Target which I didn't get light bulbs for them and I put my faux olive tree also from Amazon in the corner over here. I don't know if that's where it's going to stay. My actual bed is the same size as this air mattress so this kind of gives me an idea of how much space the bed will take up. I'm hoping everything will work out. I'm going to have another nightstand there and then my mirror probably over here. My dresser I think is going to go against this wall which I'm hoping everything will fit okay. I might need to rearrange things in here. A lot of this stuff is to be determined. That is where we're at so far. I'm exhausted though so I'm going to go to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep well. I feel like it's always weird sleeping in a new apartment for the first time especially when you're not like fully moved in and fully unpacked but I will see you in the morning for some more unpacking. Good morning. My fingertips are so sore. I'm putting together furniture yesterday. I just want to sort through everything that I brought over last night. A lot of it is extra stuff that can go in the linen closet and in the bathrooms and I did bring over some hangers and clothes and I want to do some measuring and kind of figure out where I want to put everything and I need to order new curtains but I was waiting to actually be in here because I wanted to make sure I was getting the right length but I want to get light canceling curtains and just nicer ones because the ones I have in my current place are just like sheer white ones which are cute but I want like some thicker nicer quality ones. I wanted to get either like a small dresser or just some like plastic drawers to put in the master bedroom closet so I need to measure that as well. But last night was the way that it always is. The first night you sleep in a new apartment. I didn't sleep very well especially because Benny was sleeping on the air mattress with me and he kept getting up in the middle of the night then like the ice maker was making noise. Every time the heat would kick on it's like the noises of a home that once you're living there you get so used to it that you just tune it out. You don't even notice those sounds but when it's new to you any little thing like you notice and it startles you a little bit. I'm gonna enjoy the rest of my coffee. Go take Benny out. Go check out the dog park see if anybody's over there. And then I will continue cleaning and unpacking. Oh but I put this little thing together in the master bathroom which was so easy and you can do different heights for this top shelf but so cute. It's from Amazon. I'm gonna put my skincare stuff on there. The layout of this master bedroom is tricky because you have the bathroom door over here and then the closet door over here. To me it makes the most sense to have the bed against this wall because this is just a clear open wall and if I put the bed against the wall here then it would be kind of awkward and like the bedside tables would sort of obstruct the door to the bathroom so I feel like I have to put the bed on this wall and that's how they had it in the model so then my dresser would go over here but the dresser that I currently have in my bedroom is way too wide. I mean it's like the exact length of that wall but then the issue is it comes out to about there which if it's all the way up to the edge of that wall it's literally blocking the door to the closet and then it's gonna come out over there and just make that all really tight so that's not gonna work. So I think I'm gonna have to get a new dresser and just get one that is taller and less wide so that it'll fit on this wall better and then the one that I currently have in my bedroom I guess I can just put in the guest bedroom for now. So I am going to start organizing the guest bathroom. I pretty much have everything I think that's gonna go in here so what I'm thinking is the master bathroom because there isn't as much storage in there that is just going to be like where I shower I do my skincare routine in like morning and night but as far as like getting ready doing my hair doing my makeup I want to keep that stuff in this bathroom because it's just more spacious and there's also more space to store all of those things. So in here there are these pretty decently sized drawers something in here is we're all put like makeup hair stuff and maybe like hair products like hair tools hair products maybe we'll see and then in here I can put like all of my bath stuff and like the extra things like the q-tips and cotton balls and all of that and then I also have this above the toilet too. So I think up here maybe I'll just put like extra toilet paper and some like tampons and stuff and then on that shelf maybe I'll just do some decor or something so I'm gonna just play around with this and see what I come up with. My battery died so I had to put that to charge for a little bit but I'm making some progress and I am so excited because I live for this like I love organizing so much especially when you actually have space for things it's amazing. So I'm still working on this drawer but this is going to be makeup because I have a makeup case with all of my like everyday stuff that I wear currently because I like to kind of swap stuff out and you know but this is going to be like my extra stuff but these containers fit perfectly in these drawers so I put all of my extra face brushes in one all the extra eyeshadow brushes in another this is my brush cleaner and then in this drawer this is where I am going to put all of my hot tools and like hot tool accessories so like those rollers this heat resistant pad and then I didn't put anything down here yet but this is where I think I'm going to put my hair products and I still have one more of these containers left so I think I'll put this down here and I can put clips in that so that way I'll have everything I need I'll have my hot tools my brushes clips and then products to do my hair makeup stuff in there and this will be the getting ready bathroom and then in here I want to I mean it's fine the way it is but it would be kind of nice to get containers or like baskets or something just so this stuff can be a little bit more organized and then I put this basket here I think I'm going to put some feminine products I was going to put the basket up here but it doesn't fit it sticks out too much and I don't want it to tip over and I put some extra toilet paper up there and then up here I put I have a set of three of these acrylic jars so I put one with some q-tips on here and then I'm going to roll up the washcloths next to it and I think that'll be really cute and I haven't worked on the master bathroom quite yet but I just brought over stuff there's stuff in this box that I want to put in this bathroom so I just kind of separated things based on what bathroom they are going to go in but yeah like these drawers in here I mean they're so nice to have but they are really small so they'll be good though for like just extra skincare and things like that and like my headband for when I'm washing my face and those kinds of things good morning I am back at the old department obviously I came back yesterday I just got to a point where I just felt so exhausted I think because I got such bad sleep the night before so I was tired my body was hurting so I came back here and I took a nap got some computer work done and then went back to sleep so I feel great now I just showered I am gonna just do a little bit of makeup because like why not I don't know it just helps me feel more put together and I feel like I end up being more productive as a result so I packed up a little bit more stuff last night so I'm gonna head back over to the new apartment I ended up ordering a new dresser for the bedroom because I was like oh well I could maybe put my dresser in the closet but I just feel like that's gonna take up so much closet space and then what am I gonna have on that one empty wall like it's just gonna feel weird so you'll see when it all comes together like what my plan is but I measured I looked online I was trying to find a dresser that would be a good size but wouldn't be crazy expensive obviously that is why I'm all for like investing in good high quality pieces like yeah that's great but while I'm still renting I am not gonna do that because you just never know when you're moving around a lot stuff can get messed up and you never know it like when you move into your next place if the furniture that you have is going to work in that new space so it kind of sucks having to buy a new dresser when I have one that is still in good condition but I've had it for several years it's her mykea I got it pre-inflation so it was pretty cheap when I got it and you know I feel like I got my money's worth out of it and if I can sell it to someone else even better but I found one from Walmart and they said that it could get delivered next day and I was like okay and sure enough it literally got delivered this morning less than 24 hours after I ordered it so I'm gonna go put that together all the reviews online said that are super quick and easy to assemble so hopefully it is and that'll be kind of nice because then I will have a dresser in my bedroom and I can start putting some of my clothes away I'm still planning on keeping majority of my everyday stuff here at least for like the next week because I still have my lease here until the end of the month and I wasn't sure how quickly I was going to do the move so I scheduled my internet to transfer over in the middle of February so I'm just going to be living wherever my internet is because without internet I can't get work done I can't watch anything on tv so it's like what you know what's the point I am still gonna keep majority of my clothes here but some stuff like bathing suits and tank tops and you know more summery stuff I can bring over there and start putting away so it'll be nice to have a dresser there now so yeah I'm just gonna bring some more stuff over there and just continue unpacking and my friend is going to meet me over there she actually has my carpet so she's bringing that over so I can shampoo the bedroom floors because I definitely want to start doing that before I really start putting furniture in the bedroom and I still need to assemble that second night stand oh and I ordered a drill from amazon I found a cute little pink one for 20 bucks that is supposed to be arriving in the next few days so I can start getting some stuff hung up and mounted so yeah that's the plan for today I'm gonna start loading stuff into the car this is the part I dread I'm gonna turn this face down we're doing a little like divorce dad rock station I am at any place I just blow dried my hair doesn't look as good as when I do like a proper blowout obviously with my blow dryer but I'm just making do with the stuff that I have here so far but I just unloaded the stuff from the car my friend is on her way she looks pretty close to here so she should be here like any minute and she's bringing her dogs so I'm excited for that because Benny has not seen them since before Christmas I think and her dogs are his best friends in the whole world he gets so excited I'm still trying to figure out this hair and how I want to style it like how it looks best I need to play around with it so I just because of the timing of when I got it done I just have been so focused on obviously this move who's here is he not here is he not here oh yeah okay sorry I did not vlog the last couple of hours my friend Hayley came over the dogs played which was nice we put together my new dresser I just can't believe that it literally got here so fast and it was so easy to put together I am going to put a link to this in the description 10 out of freaking 10 from Walmart it was like around 100 bucks it literally got here in less than 24 hours and it was so fast and easy to assemble like you don't have to screw anything together everything snaps into place the only thing you needed screws for was to screw on those handles and especially because she was helping me we did it in half the time I think it took us 15 minutes if even to put together so nice and it fits in that spot so much better and the drawers I mean it's a pretty decent size and it feels really sturdy and like really good quality and it has things here that stop the drawers from sliding out which is so nice and then I have another small short dresser that I have coming from Amazon that I'm gonna put back there and it's really low to the ground and that's gonna be socks and underwear and like that kind of stuff and then this is the progress that I made in the guest bathroom so far I had this basket already so I think because this was like kind of a big space so I'm going to use that as a hamper and I feel like that makes sense like that'll be useful to have in here and it feels that space with a little something and then up here I had that bigger basket above the toilet before but I actually I had this one and I feel like that just fits perfectly up there and that way it's like more out of the way and it's a little more hidden so I have the same stuff in here air freshener and like some panty liners and tampons and wipes and stuff and then I just put the extra toilet paper up there and a dossier read diffuser and I think that looks so cute and then I can't remember if I I don't think I showed the final result of these drawers but here's the makeup drawer I was able to fit everything I had to stack the brushes but I mean that is totally fine that works so everything is organized eyes lips powders complexion eyeshadows back there and then this drawer with all of the hot tools and then I still need to fill this drawer that is coming along this room I'm just going to leave empty but I put I brought Benny's crate and I put that in here I think that that'll help him get a little bit more comfortable here and understand like okay this is going to be your new home and that way he has a place to go rest and nap I still need to put that second night stand together oh I also cut my finger and of course I don't have band-aids here right now so but it should be okay it stopped bleeding but needless to say I'm not really in the mood to put together more furniture at this current moment oh another thing I hung this up I had this mirror in the old place and I just think it's perfect to have right here by the door so you know I can just do a last minute check before I head out and then this I got from amazon these little hooks to hang my keys so that is the progress that I've made so far I think I'm going to just start putting stuff in that dresser and putting the clothes away okay it's a couple hours later again sorry I'm trying to conserve memory on this SD card and my batteries and like as I'm doing stuff I'm going kind of slow and I'm like putting something one place and seeing how I feel about it and then moving it and putting you know like it's just a process so I'm like I don't want to just like my camera is just gonna die if I try recording everything that I'm doing so I'm just gonna update you kind of as I go along where I'm at so far I put together that second nightstand and it looks so cute I really love them then in the closet here I hung up the clothes that I had oh and I hung up my shoe organizer so I have some of my shoes here these hooks I am going to hang on this wall I'm waiting for my drill to come because that'll just make it so much easier so that's gonna go on this wall and that's gonna hold hats belts purses up here this is exactly how I had it my old place my sunglasses holder acrylic drawers from Muji and then this is just a craft box from the craft store and this is what I use to store and organize my jewelry and then I just put my perfumes up here I kind of want to put them on some kind of tray I have this thing which I guess I could do that again in my old place I had all my perfumes on there I don't know if I want to keep them like that but I feel like having them on something or like in a tray all together just looks a little bit nicer than them just randomly sitting on top of there I don't know and then I put my magnets up here on the fridge I was going to tape all my polaroids but this double sided tape that I have is old and there's barely any left anyway and it's just not very strong I tried to put one on and it immediately fell off so I'm gonna wait till I have better tape and then I'll put those on the fridge I put my whiteboard on there and I've just been taking all the empty boxes that are like still in good condition and I've been piling them up so that way I can bring those back to the other apartment and I can just keep reusing them I have a lot of recycling to do though like all of that is what the furniture came in and I need to coordinate and figure out when exactly my friends can help me bring over like my couch and my bed I think I'm just going to grab myself and head back to the other apartment I want to say like oh I'm gonna go back home but like this is also my place too so it's like you know it's weird but I'm just gonna call it old apartment a new apartment so I'm gonna go back to the old apartment and stay there for the night and I will see you in the morning good morning I am back in the new place I went and stayed at my old apartment last night and I'm glad that I did actually because I feel like that worked out it's obviously more comfortable to sleep in my own bed and I was able to bring some more stuff over today so the main thing that I brought is my bookshelf for the living room I have the shelves in that box over there but I'm gonna set this up so I'll be able to unpack and get rid of some of these boxes as well and you know it'll just start making the living room feel like it's coming together a little bit more and then I also brought these over I had these in my bathroom and to be honest they're not really my style anymore but I think I'm just going to put them there in the guest bathroom because I feel like something should go there on that wall and I'm just gonna hang those up in the meantime since I already have it and then I'll see how I feel if I like really end up hating it or I find something else that I like better later down the line then I can swap it out but I'm really just trying to make use of what I already own and not buy new stuff if I don't need it you know oh and then I also brought this over with all my my office supply type thing so there's tape in there so I can put those polaroids on the fridge and I think today I'm gonna mostly just be doing some cleaning I've got a band aid for my finger oh my god too funny I just want to go change the song and this is what came on next so here's what we got so far I kind of changed it up a little bit from how I had it originally at my old place and this isn't going to be the final product but it's kind of a good place to start and then as I get like all my stuff here I'll kind of fill it up with some more decorative like knick-nacky things but I like how the shelf is looking with my books it's pretty similar to how I had it before I got my little propagation thing set up over here and I was originally going to put that over here on this wall but I kind of like it over there I'll see once I have my couch and the rest of the furniture in here and then in the bathroom I hung up this wall art I was going to put the two of them side by side but I don't know I felt like that might have looked a little bit too cluttered for the size of this wall so I just did the one and I did the one that has like more neutral colors and I like how that looks are you taking a little nap you resting and sunbathing at the same time I also brought his basket with his toys over so I think now I am going to work on the kitchen a little bit I'm gonna hang up these polaroids sorry I haven't checked in in a while my battery had died so I left it to charge while I was doing some more stuff but let me show you what I did since the last time I checked in so I got all these pictures up on the fridge I hand washed all of this stuff because the dishwasher I sprayed the inside of it and kind of wiped it down a little bit and now I have it running on a heavy duty cycle so it can disinfect and clean itself because it thought is so disgusting that's like the drain thing for the sink hush garbage disposal filthy like it looks like I don't know I have no words like when I got in here the first day I immediately like came and I cleaned the kitchen and the floors and stuff like you guys saw the last vlog and it really I was like oh it's it's pretty clean in here you know like I kind of figured it would be but I just wanted to do my own cleaning just to be sure but it's like you know things looked clean on the surface versus on the surface things were clean even like I even pulled out the fridge to vacuum behind the fridge and it was clean I was like okay this is nice this is easy but then when I looked inside the washing machine and pulled the dishwasher filter out and looked in the garbage disposal those are the places where the filth was hidden I just feel like whoever lived here before literally never deep cleaned their stuff because that is filthy and disgusting and has I don't even know what is growing on that the filter from the dishwasher literally had mold and like I don't even know I don't even know but I'm gonna leave it there and I'm going to put in a maintenance request and see if they could just replace those things because I really don't want to scrub whatever is growing on them and I don't want to use it after what I've seen you know what I mean so hopefully they'll just replace that completely and the washing machine let's see it just finished a little while oh my god so much better I need to get my phone so I can use my flashlight but the washing machine too like you could see that there was just like some detergent scum buildup which you know not a huge deal so I sprayed inside the washing machine I scrubbed that down and I scrubbed like all back in here along the edges because like that was looking kind of gross too yeah it's still there's still some stuff in there so I'm gonna have to run this again but that's looking better down in here I don't know what the previous tenants did it was just chunks of mud or dirt or something I don't know and I tried to vacuum it out but it was really like caked on in there it wasn't too difficult to clean I was like you know I'm going to attempt to clean it myself and if it's just too much of a pain or it's like not working and not getting clean I'll put in a maintenance request for that because it's like come on like those are the things especially when you're renting in an apartment complex and you're renting from a company not like a private landlord like those are things that they are supposed to take care of this apartment should be moving ready like I shouldn't have to spend too much time cleaning stuff like that you know but I think that cycle like loosened everything up I like dumped some boiling water in there too to like loosen it up I think now I should be able to just like vacuum up whatever is left in there and then I'll just run it one more time because I am not putting my clothes in there until it feels completely clean the dryer looks okay though so thank god for that at least and I scrubbed the tub in here this was pretty clean but you know especially the bathtub like I would like to take a bath in here sometimes soon but I'm not getting in a tub that I haven't cleaned myself first you know what I mean so gave that a good scrub I shampooed the carpet in the master bedroom because it looked like they had did it before I moved in but I went over it again myself and I mean as you can see from the disgusting dirty water over there gross I know some people are probably going to be like you should tell them you should tell them to come back and clean I get the principle of the thing but I would honestly rather do it myself because then I know for a fact that is clean to my standards so yeah I'm waiting for this to dry it's almost dry I've had the ceiling fan going and then probably when I come back tomorrow or a different day I'm gonna do it again and I'm gonna just keep cleaning this carpet until the water runs clean or at least cleaner I am planning on putting an area rug in this room so I mean it doesn't have to be like perfect because most of the floor is gonna be covered but I just like before I really start bringing my stuff in here and putting my bed in here I just want to at least know that the carpet is not filthy you know okay this is gonna be my last update for this vlog I think because we are kind of getting down to the point where there's not really much else for me to do today and I'm getting kind of tired it's a quarter to six it's been a long productive day so the dishwasher finished running and it was good because it like loosened everything up in there but oh my god it is just so gross like this dishwasher what's nice about it is you can take everything out and clean it but clearly I don't think that this dishwasher was ever cleaned like I don't think anyone ever took the filter out so nasty so I pulled all the pieces out from down there and I gave all of this a good scrub and scrubbed in all the little crevices there was like rubber lining along the edges here that had mold on it so took that off bleached along the edges there scrubbed that so I think in here now is clean I'm gonna leave this open so it can air out and then when I come back probably tomorrow I'm going to run another heavy cycle and then I'm gonna like wipe down every little spot and make sure that nothing is coming up and that it's like completely clean and then all the little pieces that I took out I have soaking in this bucket of diluted bleach I mean it wasn't too terrible like this stuff it needs to be replaced that is absolutely disgusting this stuff though it's salvageable I think it just needs to be cleaned and then the washing machine is still going so I'm gonna wait for this to finish before I leave so that way I can open the lid and let it air out that's where I'm at with the cleaning but I'm gonna end this vlog here thank you guys so much for watching I will see you in a few days with a new vlog so excited to continue the moving process so I will see you soon bye