Ice bath, AI builds & sneaker sessions 👟
Events scoop from last week.
👋 Hey, I’m Urvashi from GrowthX, a community that helps you grow your career in the AI-first world. GrowthX gives you access to a vetted AI-first community, tools & courses all in one single membership. Our members represent 2,000+ companies like Palantir, Lovable, Meta, SarvamAI, Microsoft, Google, ScaleAI & more.
Before we dive in, a quick heads up - we’re hosting our largest community offsite of the year in Goa and trust me, you’ll want to be there. Onto today’s edition.
Build your brand blueprint 💡
last week in Mumbai & Bangalore, members got together with Swati & Abhishek. They spoke about logos, taglines, untangled messy pricing, weak differentiation & real time retention problems. The big takeaway? Tools will change, roles will blur, AI will move fast, but human behavior won’t. The people who win are the ones asking sharper questions, staying curious about users and revenue, and connecting the dots across functions.
Inside look at comet’s sneaker business 👟
See that guy in the middle holding the Comet shoe? That’s Utkarsh Gupta, co-founder of Comet. He shared something simple: good products sell themselves. When it’s done right, people notice, talk, and come back. Marketing isn’t about covering gaps, it’s about telling the story of what’s already amazing.
The -1 to 0 startup journey 🛤️
Most people want the title of founder. Few stop to examine the weight it carries. Aviral Bhatnagar session wasn’t about starting up faster — it was about knowing when not to. The -1 → 0 journey is really about self-honesty: understanding your conviction, your trade-offs, and whether this path truly belongs to you.
How investors evaluate AI founder in 2025 💼
Vaibhav Domkundwar, founder of Better Capital, pulled back the curtain - members learned what VCs notice, what they ignore, and what quietly builds conviction before a cheque is even written. Whether you’re raising capital or part of a founding team, this session would’ve given an unfiltered look at the investor mindset.
AI Ad-Build-a-thon 🎯
100 people, one mission. Let’s learn Ai. Teams of two took on real brands and real use cases, building ads end-to-end with AI in a single sprint. They presented their work live and watched it get dissected through attention, emotion, and consumer context. It’s the kind of pressure that rewires how you think about ads.
And some sessions had zero AI. Intentionally.
Simply because in an AI-first world, the most underrated skill is still being human - together. These are the little things that make the big difference.
Fam win 💙
Here’s the part we love most: celebrating wins. Big. Small. Messy. Unexpected.
The real metric isn’t users or revenue. It’s when people grow, leave to build their thing, and come back to the same room to say — “this is where it clicked”.
The rooms you step into, the conversations you have, the energy you carry back, these are the moments that shape your next chapter. Growth isn’t just what you achieve; it’s who you become alongside the right people.
Ready to experience it yourself?