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Koushik Agarwalla

Making ideas & people impossible to ignore | Director of PR, EDEC

Bengaluru

< 1 year of work experience

InMobi
Aug 20261 moPresent

Bengaluru

No-company. (Self-employed.)
Apr 20265 mosPresent

Kunal Shah calls it being an absolute learner. The idea is simple: the best people in the world are obsessively curious, they learn from everything and everyone, and they never stop updating how they see the world. I try to live that way. I have cold-called founders to understand how they think. I put industry leaders on a TEDx stage partly because I wanted to be in the room with them. I started writing at 17 not because I had something figured out but because writing forced me to think clearly. I started building early not because I was ready but because doing was the only way to actually learn. I am genuinely curious about people, business, human behaviour, and why things work the way they do. That curiosity is the common thread across everything I have been doing.
Zerodha Varsity Tribe
Feb 20267 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Boldface
Jan 20268 mosPresent

Boldface is a personal branding and LinkedIn consultancy for founders, CEOs, and leaders who are done being invisible. Built to do one thing well: take the expertise sitting inside someone’s head and make it visible, credible, and consistent on LinkedIn. Ghostwriting, content strategy, profile positioning, and long-term brand management. 35+ founders, executives and brands across India. The work is quiet. The results show up on the feed.
1 Share
May 20263 moAug 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Helping build the brand, content, and growth foundation from day one.
ThinkHive
Apr 20264 moAug 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ThinkHive is a Bangalore-based brand strategy and marketing company that works with businesses across South Asia. From founders building their market presence to established companies repositioning how they show up. My work spans brand strategy, go-to-market planning, business development, and content across client engagements. I’ve worked with and alongside brands like Vini Cosmetics (Fogg, Ossum), Cothas Coffee, BlackStone, Ather, Bacardi, AJIO, Kuku, and Raga Arts across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Some days it’s a positioning deck. Some days it’s a cold outreach system for a new market. Some days it’s keeping ten things moving so the founder’s desk is lighter at the end of the day.

Koushik’s AI Stack

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Education

Christ University, Bangalore

BCom- Finance and Accountancy

Christ University, Bangalore

20243 yrs2027
SAI International Residential School

High School Diploma, General Studies

SAI International Residential School

20184 yrs2022

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Headline

Making ideas & people impossible to ignore | Director of PR, EDEC

About

most people know me because of LinkedIn now. funny considering none of this started there. i started working with founders, CEOs and brands on their content and LinkedIn presence. not as an intern figuring things out. as someone who had already spent years understanding storytelling, audience psychology and what actually makes people stop scrolling. here is what that looks like in numbers: → 35+ clients → up to 10x revenue growth for select clients → 6,500x cumulative increase in impressions → 560x combined growth in followers → platforms like Unacademy and Emergent AI trusted me with their content and growth what i actually do: → ghostwrite and manage LinkedIn content for founders and operators → build content strategy for early and growth stage startups → lead PR and communications at EDEC, one of the most active business societies in Bangalore → organise TEDxChristUniversity i am 19. i am doing CA and CS alongside all of this. i do not care about content for the sake of looking active online. i care about positioning, trust and work that compounds over time. if that sounds like what you need, let’s talk.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

grok

openai

claudecode

Work experience

Global Communications & Marketing Intern at InMobi, Aug 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru

An Absolute Learner at No-company. (Self-employed.), Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Kunal Shah calls it being an absolute learner. The idea is simple: the best people in the world are obsessively curious, they learn from everything and everyone, and they never stop updating how they see the world. I try to live that way. I have cold-called founders to understand how they think. I put industry leaders on a TEDx stage partly because I wanted to be in the room with them. I started writing at 17 not because I had something figured out but because writing forced me to think clearly. I started building early not because I was ready but because doing was the only way to actually learn. I am genuinely curious about people, business, human behaviour, and why things work the way they do. That curiosity is the common thread across everything I have been doing.

Founding Member at Zerodha Varsity Tribe, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Curator at Boldface, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Boldface is a personal branding and LinkedIn consultancy for founders, CEOs, and leaders who are done being invisible. Built to do one thing well: take the expertise sitting inside someone’s head and make it visible, credible, and consistent on LinkedIn. Ghostwriting, content strategy, profile positioning, and long-term brand management. 35+ founders, executives and brands across India. The work is quiet. The results show up on the feed.

Founding Team at 1 Share, May 2026 - Aug 2026 · 3 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Helping build the brand, content, and growth foundation from day one.

Brand Strategist, Founder’s Office at ThinkHive, Apr 2026 - Aug 2026 · 4 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ThinkHive is a Bangalore-based brand strategy and marketing company that works with businesses across South Asia. From founders building their market presence to established companies repositioning how they show up. My work spans brand strategy, go-to-market planning, business development, and content across client engagements. I’ve worked with and alongside brands like Vini Cosmetics (Fogg, Ossum), Cothas Coffee, BlackStone, Ather, Bacardi, AJIO, Kuku, and Raga Arts across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Some days it’s a positioning deck. Some days it’s a cold outreach system for a new market. Some days it’s keeping ten things moving so the founder’s desk is lighter at the end of the day.

Education

BCom- Finance and Accountancy, Christ University, Bangalore

High School Diploma, General Studies, SAI International Residential School