
Sharan Gaba
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Sharan Gaba
@GabaSharan
currently operating a 20 room budget boutique hotel in Koramangala - Terminus. A late boomer. failed at Smooth Criminal..


Today is AGNIS’s LAST DAY in its current avatar April 29th 🔥 Exactly 2 years since I opened the shutters in May 2024. Started with just 100 customers a month, Today? 1200+ per month From a tiny 6-seater to what it is now… this chapter ends today. But a bigger one begins tomorrow. ❤️ I am a 1st-gen entrepreneur with ZERO guidance or godfather, or family gen wealth Quit my job, invested 5-8 lakhs of my job savings, and became the cashier, cook, founder, cleaner everything, working 15-18 hrs a day alone was a joy & also lonely part 😅 Family & close friends turned their backs(stopped supporting, talking, ignoring hehe eveything). 3 months in, I had lost all my savings because it didnt go as planned(location not good, zero marketing)high food cost, daily wastages due to concept of Fresh not frozen, seafood used to literally THROW AWAY😭 and was staring at a closed shutter One regular customer casually asked, “Why don’t you try burgers?” That single line changed everything but had to go sevral iterations Ghee Roast Burger → FAILED US-style Frozen Patty Burger → FAILED Thigh Burger → FAILED But the Coastal Thigh Burger? It HIT. 🔥 November 2024, a few Yenepoya med students from Deralakatte came via referrals. They loved it so much they flooded their groups. For the next 2 months, nearly 80% of Yenepoya Medical students were showing up daily, all the way from Deralakatte. Then it spread like wildfire: Father Mullers → AJ Shetty → KMC. And then @kripalamanna sir walked in. His visit 5X’d my customer base overnight and pushed me to keep the consistency insane till today & I can produly say nearly 95% of sirs customers went back HAPPY. Sir, I can never thank you enough. 🙏 So yes… today is the LAST DAY of this version of AGNIS But we’re not closing. We’re EXPANDING. Walls are coming down. The shop behind us is now ours, 6-seater becomes a 15-seater fresh-to-order live kitchen experience 1-month deadline. Everything starts from ZERO again. My journey was from -1 to 0 Now it’s from 0 to 1 I wouldnt be here today writing this without ur guidance & support Sir's @kawal279 @TheBigGeek @vinodchendhil @aroorprashanth @Srinidhi_SS One of AGNIS Early believers despite having only 1 veg item😆 and ur intro to team BHP helped a lot🥰 @vasantshetty81 @FoundersPodcast: Without ur maxims & episodes staying motivated would be difficult and to keep learning from great founders helps a lot!!! @davidsenra : Founders has shaped my thinking and way of working in running my outlet AGNIS like never before am glad i found ur episodes in Nov 2022 & also TODD GRAVES🫡I still refer back to that episode everytime I Thank all my customers for trusting AGNIS & for worth considering referring to ur friends & family!!! I am not done and this is just the START AGNI'S 🔥 "Do 1 thing & do it better than anybody else"







Today is AGNIS’s LAST DAY in its current avatar April 29th 🔥 Exactly 2 years since I opened the shutters in May 2024. Started with just 100 customers a month, Today? 1200+ per month From a tiny 6-seater to what it is now… this chapter ends today. But a bigger one begins tomorrow. ❤️ I am a 1st-gen entrepreneur with ZERO guidance or godfather, or family gen wealth Quit my job, invested 5-8 lakhs of my job savings, and became the cashier, cook, founder, cleaner everything, working 15-18 hrs a day alone was a joy & also lonely part 😅 Family & close friends turned their backs(stopped supporting, talking, ignoring hehe eveything). 3 months in, I had lost all my savings because it didnt go as planned(location not good, zero marketing)high food cost, daily wastages due to concept of Fresh not frozen, seafood used to literally THROW AWAY😭 and was staring at a closed shutter One regular customer casually asked, “Why don’t you try burgers?” That single line changed everything but had to go sevral iterations Ghee Roast Burger → FAILED US-style Frozen Patty Burger → FAILED Thigh Burger → FAILED But the Coastal Thigh Burger? It HIT. 🔥 November 2024, a few Yenepoya med students from Deralakatte came via referrals. They loved it so much they flooded their groups. For the next 2 months, nearly 80% of Yenepoya Medical students were showing up daily, all the way from Deralakatte. Then it spread like wildfire: Father Mullers → AJ Shetty → KMC. And then @kripalamanna sir walked in. His visit 5X’d my customer base overnight and pushed me to keep the consistency insane till today & I can produly say nearly 95% of sirs customers went back HAPPY. Sir, I can never thank you enough. 🙏 So yes… today is the LAST DAY of this version of AGNIS But we’re not closing. We’re EXPANDING. Walls are coming down. The shop behind us is now ours, 6-seater becomes a 15-seater fresh-to-order live kitchen experience 1-month deadline. Everything starts from ZERO again. My journey was from -1 to 0 Now it’s from 0 to 1 I wouldnt be here today writing this without ur guidance & support Sir's @kawal279 @TheBigGeek @vinodchendhil @aroorprashanth @Srinidhi_SS One of AGNIS Early believers despite having only 1 veg item😆 and ur intro to team BHP helped a lot🥰 @vasantshetty81 @FoundersPodcast: Without ur maxims & episodes staying motivated would be difficult and to keep learning from great founders helps a lot!!! @davidsenra : Founders has shaped my thinking and way of working in running my outlet AGNIS like never before am glad i found ur episodes in Nov 2022 & also TODD GRAVES🫡I still refer back to that episode everytime I Thank all my customers for trusting AGNIS & for worth considering referring to ur friends & family!!! I am not done and this is just the START AGNI'S 🔥 "Do 1 thing & do it better than anybody else"































