In June 2023, I walked away from my AVP – Marketing job to chase something far more uncertain — and far more exciting and to build two ventures from the ground up:
TTD Lights & Wires with in-house manufacturing and supply chain, and later co-founded Malaamal.com, a gaming platform that went live in January 2025.
Everything I thought I knew was tested — handling everything from product planning, product placement, and supply chain management, to user acquisition & retention, retail, modern trade, online sales, GTM strategy, and deep market penetration in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
No playbook. Just passion, pressure, and persistence. Filled with struggles, disappointments, and failures, but also moments of small wins, progress, and daily learning. Every hour has been a lesson, and every step has shaped what I’ve built today.
Struggles. Wins. Setbacks. Wins again.
It wasn’t easy. Lots of failures, daily roadblocks, and tiny wins that kept me going. But every hour taught me something new — and that’s what I thrive on.
A founder’s life — every hour counts, and every mistake teaches.
Domain: Fantasy Gaming
Location: Gurgaon/Noida
Jan’2025 – Till Date
Domain: Retail/FMCG
Location: Gurgaon/Noida
Jun’2023 – Till Date
Domain: Education
Location: Gurgaon/Noida
Jan’2025 – Till Date
Domain: BFSI
Location: Gurgaon/Noida
Sep’2023 – Feb’2025
Domain: Real Estate
Location: Noida
Dec’2023 – Nov’2024
Domain: SAAS, Digital Agency
Location: Gurgaon/Noida
Sep’2022 – Jun’2023
Domain: Automobile
Location: Gurgaon
May’2022 – Sep’2022
Domain: Edtech
Location: Gurgaon
Feb’2022 – May’2022
Domain: Classifieds, Edtech, SAAS
Location: Gurgaon
Jun’2017 – Feb’2022
Domain: Classifieds, Edtech, SAAS
Location: Gurgaon
Oct’2015 – Jun’2017
Domain: Classifieds, Edtech
Location: Gurgaon
Aug’2011 – Sep’2015
Domain: Food Tech
Location: Seattle, USA
Domain: Classifieds
Location: London, U.K
Domain: News/Blog
Location: Mumbai
Gone are those times when marketing was treated independently, solely dependent, and worked in silos.
In the current skyrocketing data boom, marketing starts from business requirements, product and market fit, to analytics and sales doability.
My approach is to bind all the dependent functional teams together so that the marketing output can be maximized.
I use tools like MS Clarity, Comscore, Solar, and internal analytics, in collaboration with GA360, SimilarWeb, and a few others — to ensure every movement of the user is being watched closely, and every marketing decision is in line with product changes, sales requirements, and overall business alignment.
I personally stopped donating all the budget only to Meta and Google.
We need these platforms only to onboard users for the first time — or at least to fetch the basic data needed to remarket them at a cheaper cost.
So instead, I reduce the acquisition cost by acquiring only users with the basic necessary information for re-marketing — and reduce the load on Meta and Google to complete the entire user journey.
Is remarketing done only by Meta and Google?
Or can we learn from the gaming segment, where remarketing tools beyond these platforms are at least 5X cheaper?
Think of RCS, WhatsApp, Email, and Text (SMS) at last.
It works — and it works beautifully — if a proper journey is created using user persona and
data.
Let’s take this conversation further. I’d love to discuss how we can apply this thinking to your
business goals and the entire user journey can be re-iterated.
Email at:- epgpx01ramank@iimrohtak.ac.in