I investigate businesses, build research systems and invest my own capital through tested rules. The subjects change. The question underneath them rarely does: what is actually happening, and what evidence would change my mind?
What I do now
01
Business investigations
I make long-form YouTube videos about how companies and industries make money. I follow the payer, the margin and the constraint until the business becomes legible. The work is educational; I do not sell coverage or end videos with stock tips.
02
Ground Series
I am building point-in-time operating datasets for India's physical economy, beginning with manufacturing, logistics, robotics and industrial AI. It is research in development, not a finished product or a public research service.
03
Systematic investing
I run my own Indian portfolio with written entry, sizing and exit rules. I publish parts of the process to create a record that can be checked later—not to tell anyone what to buy, sell or hold.
EquiWise Capital Solutions Pvt Ltd is the legal entity through which I organise some of this work. MohitSharma.com does not offer investment-advisory, portfolio-management, brokerage or research-analyst services.
How I got here
I grew up in Delhi and studied engineering at Delhi Technological University. Most of the useful education happened around the degree. These are a few surviving artifacts from the work—not a polished origin story.
Classes 6–10
Curiosity was enough.
I started Gadget All Around while I was still in school and kept working on it from class 6 through class 10. There was no grand plan; I was simply a kid interested in technology who wanted to learn more and write about it. Years of publishing taught me to research, explain and keep shipping before I felt ready.
Artifact 01Gadget All Around in the Internet Archive—an early public record of following curiosity and learning by publishing.
2018
Build the room, then enter it.
At Startup Weekend DTU, I helped organise the event and sell the tickets. Then I stepped into the same room as a participant. Moving from bringing people together to trying to build something alongside them was an early lesson in how creation actually works: the product matters, but so do distribution, persuasion and the energy of a committed group.
Artifact 02Startup Weekend DTU, 2018. I am at the far left in the blue shirt—part organiser, part ticket-seller, and then a participant.
2018–19
Learn the whole business.
During university, I ran Better Passion, an e-commerce business selling custom T-shirts and custom jewellery. I coordinated fulfilment in China before morning classes, wrote ads at night and traded with whatever capital I had left. The T-shirts taught me that demand without margin is noise. The jewellery taught me what a healthy little business feels like.
Artifact 03Better Passion, 2019. The Shopify rail shows 534 orders; traffic, fulfilment and sales were one operating system.
Artifact 04A strong day. Useful as evidence; dangerous as a story by itself.
2020 →
Turn judgment into systems.
Shipping problems forced the e-commerce operation to pause just before COVID. Markets became volatile, university moved online and trading demanded all my attention. When logistics normalised, I did not restart the store. Trading scaled without inventory and suited the way I think—but doing it seriously also exposed how unreliable conviction can be without a process.
Over time, forecasts became rules, rules became software, and software produced data worth studying. The YouTube work came from the same instinct: take a complicated system apart, follow the money and rebuild the explanation in plain language.
Artifact 05A point-in-time trading account statement. Gross profit is only the headline; costs and what survives them are the record that matters.
What I am building toward
The goal is a body of work that connects operating reality, public explanation and capital allocation. Ground Series should make change easier to observe. The videos should make businesses easier to understand. The investing record should show whether the rules survive contact with real money.
I am interested in founders and operators who have learned something from the ground that cannot be seen from a spreadsheet. If that describes your work, write to mohit@mohitsharma.com.
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