The Founders Room — Be the one who calls it right

That's what we do

We don't lecture business —
we simulate it.

Students step into real situations that India's fastest-growing startups faced while scaling — not textbook cases or 30-year-old studies, but the actual calls operators made to build and grow their verticals.

They decide under pressure, live the consequences, and build the judgment to run a business in the age of AI.

Practitioners, not trainers

Led by operators who scaled real companies — OYO, LEAD, BYJU'S, StoreKing, Resonance — not career trainers reading slides.

Real startup problems

Actual scaling crises from modern Indian startups — the calls that built real verticals, not decades-old textbook cases.

AI-integrated

Students use AI on real decisions in the room — learning where it helps, where it misses, and why judgment still wins.

Decision under pressure

Critical thinking built the only way it sticks — by making the call live, defending it, and owning the outcome.

Who runs the room

Taught by operators who built
and scaled real companies.

Not career trainers. Two people who made these calls under real pressure — and now teach students to do the same.

Vibhanshu Pratap Singh

BITS Pilani · 13+ yrs · OYO, LEAD, StoreKing

Revenue Ops leader who has built and scaled growth and operations from the ground up across consumer and edtech businesses.

Ankit Lakra

IIM-A · BIT Mesra · 10+ yrs · EdTech, Test Prep

Obsessed with customer experience, built national level customer engagement programs for growth, onboarding and retention in EdTech.

Between them, 23 years of running businesses — the scars, the calls, and the lessons that no textbook carries.

The problem

Students graduate knowing business.
Almost none can actually run it.

42.6%

of Indian graduates are employable. More than half need re-training before they add value.

82%

of employers struggle to find right-fit talent — graduates who can think, not just recall.

#1

missing skills employers name: communication and critical thinking — the instincts theory never builds.

The gap isn't knowledge.
It's the instinct to use it.

Four years of college builds theoretical literacy — definitions, frameworks, models. It does not build the instinct to read a real situation, make a call under pressure, and own what happens next. That instinct is the thing employers pay for. It's the thing a degree can't teach. And it's the only thing we build.

Source: Mercer-Mettl India Graduate Skill Index, 2025

How we teach

We don't teach one subject.
We teach you to run the whole business.

A founder, an owner, a chief of staff — they don't get to pick one function. They read the whole board and make the call. Our method trains that: not applying a framework like theory, but making real decisions under pressure and executing them on the ground.

AI runs through every step

1See It

Read a real business problem. Separate symptom from root cause. Look through three lenses — operations, customer, finance — on the same situation.

2Decide It

Enter The Arena. Choose under pressure with incomplete information. Defend your reasoning, then see the real consequence of the call you made.

3Do It

Turn the decision into action. Build a 48-hour plan, sequence the priorities, and communicate the call upward the way an operator has to.

At each step, students use AI on the real task — then find what it missed. AI sharpens the thinking; the judgment stays human.

Every session runs this method — regardless of domain or format.

What students walk out with

The right mental models

Transferable instincts for reading any business function — built through live simulations, not lectures.

AI's real impact on decisions

Not generic AI fluency — a clear grasp of how AI changes the actual business call, and where human judgment still wins.

Mentorship with veterans

Direct time with operators who have actually built and scaled companies — not career trainers.

Sharper judgment under pressure

The ability to think critically and decide fast when the picture is incomplete and the clock is running.

The six domains

A founder doesn't pick one.
They read all six at once.

Every real decision pulls on more than one function. Tap a domain to see the kind of call students have to make.

The Founder's View

Tap a domain →

Our programs

Three ways to bring the room
to your campus.

Online or offline. Each goes one level deeper than the last.

Spark

3 hours · guest lecture

A glimpse into the room. One core simulation, one domain — built to spark critical thinking and show students how real business decisions get made.

✓ One live simulation
✓ AI in the room
✓ Online or offline
✓ Best when time is short

Starting from

₹15,000

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The only practical-learning program
built like the real thing.

Most college programs teach about business. We make students run it — economically, and at a depth that lets every student judge whether this path is really for them, the right way.

Lived, not read

Scenarios from real companies, debriefed by the people who lived them — "here's what I did, and what I'd do differently now."

AI on real tasks

Not an AI lecture — students use AI inside live decisions and learn exactly where it helps and where it fails.

Instincts that transfer

One-line mental models students still use years into their careers — not facts they forget after the exam.

For colleges

More than a workshop —
a lasting industry linkage.

Your institution gains a real relationship with operators who've built companies — and students get the one thing internships rarely deliver: live, consequential decision-making.

Credible linkage

A standing relationship with high-pedigree industry practitioners — a connection the college keeps, not a one-off event.

Career-ready thinking

Measurable growth in critical thinking and decision-making — the skills recruiters test for in GD/PI and on the job.

Beyond an internship

Live market experience in the room — real problems with real stakes, not the vague tasks most internships hand out.

We don't lecture business —we simulate it.

Taught by operators who builtand scaled real companies.

Students graduate knowing business.Almost none can actually run it.

We don't teach one subject.We teach you to run the whole business.

A founder doesn't pick one.They read all six at once.

Three ways to bring the roomto your campus.

The only practical-learning programbuilt like the real thing.

More than a workshop —a lasting industry linkage.

Bring The Founders Roomto your campus.