In this episode Ankur Warikoo discusses his income sources and financial journey in 2024. He explains his intent to inspire others by sharing detailed breakdowns from his holding company, Zaan Web Veda Private Limited, covering his content business, public speaking, book royalties, brand collaborations, and education platform. Warikoo also shares insights on investments and offers advice on being active with income and passive with investing. Learn how he has built an immensely gratifying and purposeful career while contributing significantly to educational causes.
00:00 Introduction to Woice With Warikoo
00:36 Purpose of Sharing Income Details
01:16 Overview of Zaan Web Veda Private Limited
01:43 Brand Vareku: The Content Business
02:09 Income Streams of Brand Vareku
05:16 WebVeda: The Education Business
06:20 Investing: The Third Business Unit
07:16 Active Income vs Passive Investments
08:10 Final Thoughts and Disclaimers
[00:00:03] Hey everyone, this is Voice with Warikoo, my or Ankur Warikoo. In this English podcast series, I cover a lot of things in this English podcast. Career, relationships, personal finance, success, failure and frankly, something else that comes to the time. Every week on Thursday, a new episode on your favorite podcast platform. Voice with Warikoo.
[00:00:29] This podcast is a little bit of a pompous podcast.
[00:00:34] It's a little bit of a pompous podcast.
[00:01:04] Shiaid, you may have some inspiration. You may know how many income sources are. How you can get a lot of money and a lot of money. You may have a lot of money and a lot of money. And hopefully, you may have a look at a lot of life. You may have a look at a lot of a different perspective. A different thought. A different thought. So, in the background of my wife and I own a company. Zaan Webveda Private Limited. Zaan is a Kashmiri word. It means knowledge. And webveda. It means two words.
[00:01:35] Web is online. Veda means knowledge. So, online knowledge. Private Limited Company. There are three business units. One is Brandwarikoo. It's a content business. One is Webveda. It's an education business. And one is investing. It's a company. We invest in a company. So, first of all, let's talk about Brandwarikoo. The first business unit is content business. Here, I am a friend of this content. And we make content on many social media platforms. YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, newsletter. There are podcasts. There are books.
[00:02:04] Total about 1.5 crore people follow me. This is overlapping. It's not unique. In all these platforms. And in this business, there are multiple income streams. The first income stream is advertising. Advertising. This is not money. Because YouTube, where we can get paid from ads. We have been doing ads. We have never been doing ads. We have been doing it. If we are on it, we can get on it. We can get about 1.5 crore people. Our year has been 800 million views.
[00:02:33] There are many views. And there is so much money. But we have asked if we have this. Why is this? That is a reason. And a personal reason. The second income stream is affiliate income. Affiliate income is what happens. That is a reason. That we have to do it. That we have to do it. We have to do it. Or do it. We have to do it. Or do it. And if you have to get a link. And if you have to buy it. Then we have to share it. We have to share it. It's called affiliate income. So January 2021. We have been 48,000,000,000.
[00:03:03] Affiliate income. The best part of this affiliate income is what happens. That 100% of the income we have to earn. Now we have to earn. And then we have to earn. The whole family. that child's teaching goes to the way she can afford it. It's a simple process. Children email us, we ask them student ID, we ask college details, we ask a number of numbers and we ask a link to which we give the school and college fees directly. And then we transfer them. Last year, we contributed to 43 lakhs for 104 children's teaching.
[00:03:32] Now, when this company is running, we have contributed to 1.70 lakhs. We contribute to 397 kids' education. All of you, because you buy them, that's why this affiliate income is generated. So thank you so much for that. The third income stream is public speaking. I love to speak on stage. There are many companies who invite me to to our team events, all hands, to our leadership offsides, to address our audience,
[00:04:00] to share their experience with them. We are not a good. We charge 1 hour of 9 lakhs. And we are very selective, because this is not my Rosie Roti. So I want to give my time to tell that I want to give a time to give a time to give a time. In 2024, we have 2,40 lakhs. This speaking fees is made. And my mind is bad. I think I can't get so much money. I can get so much money. I like income stream number 4. Book royalty.
[00:04:31] Every year, book publishes. Four books published. First, do epic shit. Then, get epic shit done. Then, last year, make epic money. And now, in the situation, build an epic career. Which is a book book. That was released. I write books for such a audience. I don't have to read books. I don't have to read books. I don't have to read books. I don't have to read books. I get a royalty on these books. So, in 2024, this book book book. The total books of the book book. The royalty generated 1,65 lakhs. Then, income stream number 5.
[00:05:00] Brand collaborations and endorsements. Since I am a public figure. I have a social media following. There are many brands. They come and say that our product, our service, please promote your product. And we work with those brands. There should be two different conditions. There should be two different conditions. The first condition is that I have personally used that brand. And that brand is very nice. The second condition is that I personally know their founder or CEO. And the third condition is that this brand has been little by little 5 years.
[00:05:30] And it's been a long time. So, due to this credit, we have 300-300 queries come in a month. But we work with one or two, maximum three brands every month. We work with one. This income stream, Web Veda, we have supported the way to generate. Eventually, zero will be. Brands with me, I will work with that. That will be zero. In 2024, we have approximately 2,75 lakhs. This brand collaboration and endorsements.
[00:06:00] Then, business unit number 2. Web Veda is our education business. Here, my time is 80% of my time. My entire mind and my heart are in this direction. It goes through the course of the course. Web Veda is an online school. It provides a very affordable courses, lifetime access and 100% refunds. And we try to teach this subject which schools or colleges do not teach. So, time management, money management, communication, start-up, career planning, cold emailing, etc. There are about 4,30,000 students
[00:06:30] enrolled in school. It's an average price point for students. 6,000 to 8,000 new students every month join. 7% of students are in our country. The average course completion rate is 72% and the average refund is 100% refunds. It's only 5.5% Every month, one course launches. Total 12 courses on the platform. In 2024, we have 9,500,000,000,000 sales on Web Veda.
[00:06:59] Which will probably be very big but the last three years was the most poor performance. The reason we know that there is no doubt about it. So, we are not afraid. In fact, we are very bullish and excited for this year. So, with these two income streams, we have gained approximately 16,80,000,000,000,000. And the third business unit is investing. Investing is because we are a profitable business. We have a profit margin. We have a profit margin.
[00:07:28] We invest in assets. I'm a bit aggressive investor. I don't recommend others. Especially this year. Our investing mix is about 70,000,000,000,000. In portfolio management services, we have about 8,000,000,000,000. Startup debt has about 1,60,000,000,000. Startup equity has about 3,500,000,000,000. In India, it's about 1,500,000,000. In the US, it's about 1,500,000,000,000. And real estate is about 3,75,000,000,000,000.
[00:07:59] So total is about 20 crore. If you see, it's about 13 crore last year. So in one year, it's about 50% growth growth. It's not sustainable. It's not going to happen. It's only been this year. But it's just been the same. The main thing is that investing is not active. I will give 5 minutes to it. I will track it and manage it. I feel happy to be feeling that I will give experts a few fees. I will manage my money and manage my money.
[00:08:29] And this is a very important point. We often spend our lives on our income. We spend our money on our own. We spend our money on our own. We spend our time on our morning. We spend our time on our day. We spend our salary. And somehow, we spend our life on our own. But the surprise is that we spend our money on our investments. We spend our money on our investments. We spend our money on our stock. We spend our money on our stock.
[00:08:57] We spend our money on our trading. We spend our money on F&O. We spend our time on Telegram, WhatsApp. We spend our time on Group. We spend our time on Stock Tips. If I change this, I say that you are active on your income. Don't settle with your salary. You explore. You can earn new ways. You can earn different ways. And you have to keep your money on your income. You have to keep your money on your income. You always spend your money on your investment. But you are investing in your money. You are a bit boring. You are boring. You are doing SIP. So active with your income.
[00:09:27] Passive with your investments. In my path, this is a good job. Because it's a lot of life. I do. Do it. Before we go, there are 3 things. Number 1. This is revenue number. This is not my salary. I don't have money. I don't have money. After that, there are many expenses. Team salary. Marketing. Software. So, as I told you, profit is our 20-25% of our profit. We invest ourselves. We only take a salary. That's enough.
[00:09:58] The second thing I can tell you, is a bootstrap business. It's a business that we didn't have external funding. How much fun it is. Especially in my age 44. This is the best way to grow. From the speed of speed. Slow and steady. There is a great team. In the name of the company, I love the company. I love them. I love them. I love them. I love them. I don't want to get a call. I don't want to get a call. I don't want to give a board meeting. I don't want to do anything. I just want to show their audience and students. I want to give a responsibility for their own. There is a lot of time. To think.
[00:10:28] To plan. To get long-term bets. And the best part is, that this performance, which I shared with you. If it's a VC funded company, or external funded company, it's a disaster. It's a failure. It's a failure. But the company, in terms of the bootstrap, how much money is a big deal. It's not a big deal. It's a big deal. And the third thing, as I said before, is that it's very difficult to share. I don't want to share it. The number of people is not difficult. Because transparency is easy to get. I'm very self-assured.
[00:10:58] I'm very very intelligent. I'm very intelligent. So, judgment doesn't matter. It's not a difference. People say, what will they say? What will they say? It's not a difference. It's a difference. I think people say, look, I'm doing this. Look, I'm doing this. Look, I'm doing this. Look, I'm cool. So, this disclosure, the objective is very difficult. Because my goal is only to inspire you. That I can inspire you. That life can be a different way. Especially if you're not happy.
[00:11:28] And that's the goal of your goal. I'm happy that this episode is good for you. All the best. If you liked this week, please, don't forget to review your platform and do subscribe to Voice with Variku. Every Thursday, a new episode on your favorite podcast platform.



