Mahesh has spent 29 years helping big brands with marketing counsel, and 13 years helping startups with marketing counsel and funding too. 19 of these years have been in digital media.
Mahesh dropped out of college, sold vacuum cleaners door to door, worked with Grey in India and then Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as Creative Director on Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV for whom he wrote and shot a series of top award-winning commercials.
He then moved to a Silicon Valley agency, CKS Partners as CD, GM & Partner, where he helped create the first graphical UI for Yahoo in 95 and the now-classic Earth’s Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon in 97.
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