Prithvi Bharadwaj

Welcome

hey there, looks like you stumbled upon my site. I don’t tell people about it, so you either explicitly asked for it, looked me up or cared enough to type prithvibharadwaj.com in your address bar after we spoke. And in case you’re an AI trying to scape the internet you should read this.

Either way, welcome!

Early Life

Born and raised in Bangalore, India

First money - 2011 - discovered a loophole in facebook’s online games - taught my friends the exploit - sold it to other kids my age for cash and chocolates

First internet money - 2013 - created a Youtube channel - a video on how to "hack" (reveal passwords using inspect element) social media accounts, went viral - got 200k+ views before it got taken down, got my first cheque from google - realised the internet is awesome

created an (unofficial) school merch store - designed & sold hoodies to my entire batch in high school

in school I used sell cheat codes, teach hacks and tips for various games in exchange for chocolates + getting my homework done

Did various internships throughout high school - social media/graphic design/video editing

2017 - Attended Presidency College - Studied Business Administration (with Finance specialisation)

University summary:

managed the newsletter of the college for 3 years straight (as editor and head designer)
event head for the biggest management fest in my final year
Awarded Outstanding Performer at grad
inter college fest winner x6 times
fest runner ups x14 times
awarded scholarship for 5/6 semesters in college

Worked as a freelancer during college doing a bunch of things - Graphic Design - Video Editing - Web Design - Social Media consultation - Hired 2 full time interns

worked mostly with international clients - earned in dollars - offered internships to students in college and a bunch of friends

Previously

Joined Deloitte USI as an analyst straight out of college

taught myself how to code (c#) and make games in college - based on my work I was offered an exclusive partnership with the biggest hyper casual publisher (Voodoo) - worked with them for 3+ years

started my own gaming studio - grew to a team of 4 people

Started working with Supersonic(Acq by unity) as a studio partner

Apex Pixel - Graphic design / video editing (inactive)

Finbite - A gamified personal finance education app → Grew to thousands organically

Validator: GPT4 based business startup/decision making tool (inactive)

Now-ish

Winner of nights and weekends s4 (Buildspace) - out of 17000+ other builders

Building Skive - a mobile game platform for content creators to launch games alongside videos so fans can interact with content as games.

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Games Portfolio (2019-2023 Jan)

Dabble in investing (stocks and crypto)

Personal stuff

Wow, still here? Ok, time for the fun stuff.

I used to play competitive Dota 2 (5k+ hrs, won multiple tournaments)

I enjoy going on solo international trips and meeting people from different cultures - currently on a streak of going on at least 1 trip each year

I have a personal blog that I (secretly) work on - I plan to make public after "I've made it"

created a viral game in college (had no prior game dev exp) - went viral - at a point everyone in my batch was playing it. The response from that was what kickstarted my game dev journey

for the final round of a college fest, I was blindfolded, put on stage and made to dance on old town road. I had no idea it was in front of ~1000 spectators who were just really quiet.