{"id":759644,"date":"2026-09-04T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759644\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:22:10","slug":"he-quit-bengaluru-tech-job-for-peace-of-mind-now-his-startup-earns-%e2%82%b91-crore-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759644\/","title":{"rendered":"He quit Bengaluru tech job for \u2018peace of mind\u2019; now his startup earns \u20b91 crore\/month"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many entrepreneurs choose to build their businesses in Tier-1 cities like Bengaluru and Delhi, Supreeth Kashyap follows a different school of thought. The founder of the well-known apparel brand Wellbi has headquartered his company in Mysuru, Karnataka. In a conversation with HT.com, Kashyap opened up about his decision to live and work in a Tier-2 city, quitting his tech job for entrepreneurship, the mistakes he made on his way to building a profitable startup and more.<\/p>\n

\"SupreethSupreeth Kashyap, 30, opens up about why he chose to build a startup in Mysuru.Tech job to entrepreneur<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Mysuru, Supreeth Kashyap, 30, holds a degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. After graduating in 2017, he landed a job at Accenture in Bengaluru. It was a tech job that paid him a comfortable salary, but he never quite took to Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat peace of mind was missing in Bengaluru<\/a>,\u201d he told HT.com in a conversation. \u201cI specifically wanted to build something from Mysuru. In most metro cities, there is already so much crowd, traffic and constant pressure. Mysuru offered a different environment, with a better sense of space and peace, and I felt it was the right place to build something meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kashyap quit Accenture in 2018 and started consulting as a freelancer. In 2021, he launched Wellbi \u2014 an apparel brand focused on essential and athletic wear made of sustainable, organic fabrics.<\/p>\n

Why he chose entrepreneurship<\/p>\n

Kashyap claims that his foray into entrepreneurship happened more by accident than design. His main motivation was the wish to generate employment in Tier-2 cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever I was doing in the IT industry was not completely satisfying. Like, I wanted to do something which would create meaningful employment <\/a>opportunities, and apparel was the category which I ended up choosing,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to create opportunities in Tier-2, Tier-3 cities, rural India, where people don’t migrate from rural India to urban areas. So, that was the motivation for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mysuru-based founder today has over 15 full-time employees. His company works with another 40 artisans who are involved in operations like yarn-making, weaving and stitching.<\/p>\n

From \u20b910 lakh capital to \u20b91 crore monthly revenue<\/p>\n

Kashyap initially started Wellbi in 2021 by putting in \u20b910 lakh of his own savings and money borrowed from family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started with around \u20b910 lakh, putting in some of my own money and taking some support from my family. Over time, I gradually built that into an initial investment of around \u20b950 lakh as the business started taking shape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The company raised around \u20b93 crore from angel investors at the initial stage. Kashyap told HT.com that it clocked \u20b96 crore+ turnover in FY 2025\u201326 and is now targeting around \u20b915\u201316 crore in annual turnover, with a projected \u20b916 crore by March 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started doing about \u20b911 lakh revenue in the first year, and we went ahead and did \u20b970 lakh revenue in the next year. And then we did \u20b92.4 crore in the next. Last year, we did \u20b95.6 crore revenue. And now this year we will be doing about 15 crore, 15 to 16 crore per annum,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The challenges of building a startup<\/p>\n

The journey from \u20b910 lakh as startup capital to \u20b91 crore as monthly revenue was not without roadblocks. Kashyap acknowledged that he has made some mistakes along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would call myself an accidental entrepreneur. Because nobody in my family has any business experience,\u201d he said. \u201cI would call myself very naive initially. I did not know much when I started, but I learned through the process and then acquired more skill sets.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Also read: \u2018I messed up\u2019: Founder apologises for offering job interviews to party guests willing to get tattoos<\/a>)<\/p>\n

One of his early mistakes was focusing too much on photoshoots.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the early days, I was very drawn towards fashion photography and thought that good photoshoots would help sell the product. But I realised that the product strategy has to come first,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to find your product market fit first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kashyap\u2019s second mistake was hiring too many employees, too quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were doing 20 lakhs revenue per month, we had about 13-14 people\u201414 people in the company. Now when we are doing 1 crore per month, and we have about close to 10 people,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the main mistake was we were not able to hire proper multitaskers\u2026 I was kind of hiring people for every role.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rewards of building a startup<\/p>\n

For Kashyap, the challenges of running a startup pale in comparison to the rich rewards. And the rewards are not always monetary \u2014 for this 30 year old founder, appreciation from big names in the industry is also very rewarding.<\/p>\n

Kashyap told HT.com of several founders who love Wellbi products.<\/p>\n

\u201cGanesh Sonawane, founder of Frido, loves our products,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned Vivekananda Hallekere, the co-founder of Bounce, as being one of his customers. Besides this, the company has also supplied T-shirts to bigwigs like Meta and Zerodha.<\/p>\n

The Mysuru-based founder now has expansion on his mind, with Wellbi soon launching on Amazon in the US. But he is quick to stress that Wellbi is not a fast fashion brand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not chasing trends. We want to just enhance comfort, breathability of the product you wear,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While many entrepreneurs choose to build their businesses in Tier-1 cities like Bengaluru and Delhi, Supreeth Kashyap follows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[250870,84,4203,68361,250871,250872,56,54,55,250873],"class_list":["post-759644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-apparel-brand","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-mysuru","tag-sustainable-fabrics","tag-tier-2-cities","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wellbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}