Personal Blog by Mayank Pokharna
From building a coaching institute for 70 students in Udaipur to bootstrapping SimplyGuest to $1M ARR, consulting 60+ coliving operators across 15+ countries, and living out of a backpack across 100+ cities, I write about the messy, beautiful journey of building things, chasing curiosity, and figuring life out along the way.
An engineer from Udaipur turned serial entrepreneur. I co-founded SimplyGuest and bootstrapped it to $1M ARR with 500+ tenants across Bangalore, built JumboTiger (coliving management software), and now run Everything Coliving, a platform helping coliving operators worldwide through consulting, marketing, a podcast, and the Coliving Founders Community. I've consulted with 60+ coliving operators across 15+ countries and am on a mission to live and work from 100+ cities as a digital nomad.
Fresh thoughts and recent writings
The Journey from Adulting to Marriage I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind lately: the journey from adulting to marriage. This is a transition I’ve personally gone through over the last 10 years—five years as a bachelor and now almost four and a half years of married life. Looking back, it’s […]
Growing Up as a People Pleaser For my whole life, I kind of focused on making other people happy while I was growing up. What meant a lot to me was if any of my actions would make my mother, my father, my grandparents happy. That became a norm because that’s what shaped my childhood, […]
So today I want to share some of my thoughts on expectations. This word has been used and abused a lot by this generation, but also by the way I was raised over the last 20 years as the only son in a very traditional family. I grew up in a household where expectations were […]
After years of ups and downs, the author finally married the love of their life. Despite extensive planning, the wedding day was chaotic due to managing guests and unexpected issues. In hindsight, the author regrets being so focused on others that they barely remember their special day, except for their bride’s angelic appearance.
I just crossed onto the other side this year into the thirty's, which is a big deal in our society today. So, I thought of writing about it. From being the eldest son in a middle-class North Indian family to a few failed attempts at entrepreneurship to running a successful self-sustained start-up, I've been through a lot of ups and a whole more downs.