Ankur Warikoo
Building a personal brand, and learning what a good team feels like.
My part in the story
Helped grow his personal brand. Gained a mentor for life. Ankur is the one person in my life I didn't know I needed until I met him. Working with him shaped my ethics, values, and purpose around my craft and career. WariCrew as we liked to call ourselves is still my benchmark for how teams operate and execute.
The craft, and the people around it
I worked on video as part of Ankur’s personal brand team. That experience shaped my ethics and my sense of purpose around creative work.
The team we called WariCrew is still a reference point for how I want people to work together. The collaborator accounts below preserve their own words about that time.
Projects in this chapter
“Ashwat was part of my personal brand team as a video editor, and played a key role in building our Instagram family – from100K when he joined, to 1.2Mn when he left – in just a span of 14 months. Always brimming with ideas, liked by all, fun to be around – Ashwat completes the profile of the quintessential team contributor :) I wish him success in all his endeavors.”
Next chapterQuarkMe“Ashwat worked in Brand warikoo for 1.5 years, and was the leading man for video editing for Ankur's Instagram page - which grew from 24K followers to 1.2 Million during this time. And I am certain a huge part of that is because of the video editing magic he brought on the table. He was also the Tech Lead of the Brand warikoo community project and also helped in finalising the platform from scratch, by doing multiple research, gathering team feedback, and tirelessly coordinating with the vendor. Always patient, never losing his temper, always explaining things logically, a wonderful team player, and one of the nicest people in the team to work with. For whatever lies next for Ashwat, it is going to be a rocking journey for him, as well as everyone he works with!”