Punya Garg

🚨 Badhai ho, product paida hua h 👶 Conceived at 3 AM. Delivered after 2 months of sleepless nights. Raised on hostel WiFi and Maggi. And its first words? “LinkedOut Waitlist is LIVE.✨” 🙏 Gratitude first. To Krishna, for blessing us. To my parents, for raising this like their own child. To our sponsors: IDFC FIRST Bank, Futuremarx Bionics Private Limited, Ruby, BHARAT FINSERVE, BURRAH for believing in this madness. 🎤 Our Speakers (the cool relatives): Palakh Khanna → How to make LinkedIn work for you instead of against you. Anmol Chopra → The art of scaling a startup from scratch. Muskaan Khattar & Tanishqa Dhiman → The secret world of ghostwriting. Dev Taneja → How he built a ₹12 Cr brand in 4 years (and why he quit to build Unjob.ai). Vishu Sushma Gupta → Scaling a company at just 17 and scaled it to ₹6L/month in revenue. Arpit Dhingra → The man behind the your childhood favorite treat: Nariyal Laddu Special shoutout to Jitendra Sir & Sonali Ma’am — you were missed deeply. If I’m the Head of LinkedOut, here’s the rest of the body: Neck: Prarthi Gulia – keeping us upright through every decision. Hands: Pranay Aggarwal & Ujwwal Gupta – carrying all of web dev + AI/ML. Fingers: Yana Gujral, Riddhi Sharma, Ishu Saini, Soumya Rai – building everything from data scraping to landing pages. Design muscle: Tanishqa Dhiman – dressed our baby in Gucci-level design. Collab closer: Ayush kumar prajapati – every partnership, sealed. Editor beast: Vashu Panday – editing like the deadline was life or death. Social ninja: Priyanshu – socials = thriving. Newsletter queens: Aditi Kumari & Saxi Patel – bedtime stories turned bangers. Cinematographer: Chirag Antil – every shot 🔥. And the Heart? That’s you ❤️🫵 This is LinkedOut’s first baby step. No flashy funding. No father’s money. Just raw passion + delusional faith that somehow, it’ll work out. Bye corporate. We don’t fit in. Because we are LinkedOut 👉 Come meet the newborn: https://linkedout.in/

If 3 months ago, someone told me we’d grow into a community of 1k+ creators, I would’ve laughed. Actually, I still used to laugh. Until 26th July. When I stood in front of 100 people And saw LinkedOut stickers on every laptop in the room. 💛 That’s when it hit me: Holy shit. It’s real now. No going back. And the chemical crashout in our brains? Pehla pyaar level crazy. The word ‘overwhelming’ is a severe understatement. Feel free to imagine me grabbing a tissue after every two sentences because I'm tearing up real bad. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥: ✨ Krishna — First and foremost, thank you. I still remember getting off a call with Gaurav, fully ready to give up because we had zero sponsors. That evening, I cried at ISKCON. Came back home and got my first sponsor from a friend I’d met a year ago at ISKCON itself. Divine timing. ✨ Mom & Dad — Brij K Garg and Payal Garg Divv said it best: “Yaar I’ve never seen someone’s parents so involved in their event.” They weren’t just there for the show. They were reason it was even running. Mom. Dad. I hope everyone gets parents like you. ✨ Team LinkedOut 💛 Operations Team: Pranay Aggarwal (Team Lead and literally the backbone), Jastej Singh, Ruhansh Bansal, Prarthi Gulia, Dev Pratap Singh, Sanchit Design Team: Satya Mishra (Design head and the mastermind behind all your graphics), Das Chetan Bajaj, Gaurav Sponsorship Team: Gaurav Jindal, Akansha mishra ✨ Our Speakers Deepanksha Saxena: Started with “What is Personal Branding?” and ended up delivering a Saheli Chatterjee-level masterclass. Gunjan Mishra: Can’t believe she said yes. Her advice on leadership and hiring: pure gold. Aayushi Jain: Hands-on session queen. We left the room with better bios and a 30-day content calendar 💅 Shivangi Jajoo, Gungun Yadav, Kashish Gaur: The OG ghostwriting panel. Talked monetisation, brand partnerships, and everything LinkedIn. Siddhartha Satyarthi: Roasted our profiles better than Purani Dilli chicken. 🔥 Left us laughing and learning. ✨ Our Sponsors PW (PhysicsWallah), Jackpot Sales Consulting, Geek Room, Market Mafiaa, Osata Perfumes, Predator, Homey, Founders Fuel, GitHub, Pathway I can not let this post go without a shoutout to: Arnav Gupta, Mukul Khera, Devansh Srivastava, Abhinav Singh, Rahul Mukherjee, Himank Varshney, VIKASH SENGAR, Abhay Pratap Singh, Sahil ✨ And finally… You. Yes, you. Grinning behind the screen. Thank you for making this event what it was. Not just this event. This community. It’s your love that built LinkedOut 💛 And it’s your belief that’ll take us to the next one. To the ones who couldn’t make it, don’t worry. This is just the beginning. More events. More madness. More magic. P.S. Yellow hearts are our thing now? Aren't they? 💛

𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤. Small in numbers. Loud in meaning. It didn’t buy things. It bought 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟. In me. By me. For me. It still hasn’t sunk in. But my 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬? They smiled like they always knew. Like success was my surname. Like I was the 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 in their fate. They never saw a world where I wasn’t destined. Where failure was an option. For them, the only question was: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐟. It’s not the amount. It’s the 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭. A conformational sigh That the dreams whispered in the dark Are alive in the light. All this and I feel like The best is yet to be said. Oh God. If this is the start, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝.