Being a down to earth Bangalore native, Shashank decided to go to BITS Pilani for undergraduate studies to gain exposure and grow out of the cocoon of a South Indian home. Upon learning about Mr. Narayana Murthy's journey, an aspiration to build a global behemoth from India brewed in him from a young age. After multiple failed attempts with startup ideas, running into Binay & Arjun, his fellow BITSians at the age of 21, enabled him to turn his lifelong passion into a reality. They together built an on-demand tutoring app for competitive exams called Edvice that received enough traction making Shashank & his co-founders the first set of undergraduates in 50 years of BITS History to have sold a company while in college. The Edvice journey, while reasonably short, made Shashank realise the acute problem of access to expertise at the right time. Grown in a middle-class family, he also strongly felt the need to bring in economic equality by democratising access to meaningful incomes to professionals across the globe. He teamed up with his Edvice co-founders once again, to launch TapChief in their last semester at Pilani, in 2016.