Here’s a thought that might shake you:
By the time we tell kids to “think like an entrepreneur”… they’ve already been trained to play it safe.
Now pause.
What if entrepreneurship wasn’t just for MBA grads or 20-somethings in co-working cafés?
💥 What if it started in Class 6?
👇Let me tell you about a student who didn’t wait for a degree to get started.
💼 “I want to buy that laptop!”
That’s what 14-year-old Anand from my Class 11 batch told his father one evening.
His dad didn’t give him money.
He gave him a challenge: “Then earn it.”
Anand didn’t whine.
He went to work.
🎯What Anand built next wasn’t just a business—it was a blueprint every school should adopt.
Born in 1994 in a modest home in Bihar, Anand’s life changed when his father got a job with Delhi Metro and moved the family to Delhi.
There, in Class 8, he saw a computer for the first time.
As his teacher, I can still see that spark in his eyes. He didn’t have a computer at home. But he had cyber cafés… and curiosity.
💡 The Cyber Café CEO
When Anand joined FutureIcons Learning Academy in Class 9, he was still struggling with math—but thriving with ideas.
Together, we worked on his weaknesses in numbers, while I encouraged his passion for coding. He’d spend hours after school on w3schools.com, learning HTML and launching simple websites.
📲 He pitched shopkeepers.
💻 Built websites for ₹500.
📦 Created Next Pixar Web—a one-man startup selling domains and hosting.
🧠 Built a 10-member team… before finishing school.
👨💼 From Side Hustle to Scalable Tech
In November 2024, long after school, Anand walked into my office again—with a smile and a startup:
RemoteEngine.
A bold solution for modern hiring:
✅ Contract hires
✅ Global payroll
✅ Employer of Record (EOR) services
✅ Real revenue. Real results.
Together with Magdy Ashraf and Abhey Sharma, he built something bigger than code.
He built confidence—starting in a cyber café.
🧑🏫 So what are we waiting for?
Why do we wait until a child is 21 to tell them to “be a leader”?
Why not start when they’re 11 and still full of ideas, energy, and zero fear of failure?
💬 Entrepreneurship isn’t a career. It’s a classroom.
Books like “How to Turn $100 into $1,000,000” say it best:
💥 You don’t need capital. You need creativity.
💥 You don’t need a degree. You need direction.
By Class 6, kids should be learning:
✅ How to pitch
✅ How to price
✅ How to fail
✅ How to build
✅ And how to bounce back
🎓 A Call to Every Educator & Parent
Anand didn’t need a big cheque.
He needed one big question:
“What can I build with what I have?”
Let’s not keep that question for B-Schools.
Let’s bring it into every classroom.
Not every child will become a CEO.
But every child should be allowed to think like one.
💬 What was your first money-making idea as a child?
🔁 Tag a teacher or parent who needs to hear this.
📢 And if you’re a policymaker — let’s make entrepreneurship part of the Class 6 curriculum.