Nomit Pahuja - Co-Founder at Next Step

Nomit Pahuja

Co-Founder at Next Step

3 years back, right out of college, I was building Byte Avenue, an automated personal assistant for anyone who wants to learn coding. Goal was to provide personalised guidance at an inexpensive cost but the timing was wrong as the ed tech bubble soon burst. We had to shut down because the team wasn’t able to sustain further without funds and I started work as an APM at a YC startup based in Gurgaon called Exly.

2 years into it, I took my learnings and started working with my dad remotely on his 27 year old computer business called Next Step. Realised that the service is excellent but we were never able to grow exponentially because the company never even focused on sales & marketing.

Studied the space and found the gadget rental space interesting and growing at a good pace. Experimented for a while, saw good traction, so decided to come back and work on building the most reliable gadget rental solution along with my dad.

You can check it out here: nextsteppune.com

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