Welcome back to Build Young.
I'm Ansh — 19, building Kravic, JustBuild, and Webcom Media from Bhopal.
This week — no product updates. No systems. No frameworks.
Just something I've been fighting with internally. And I think you feel it too.
I'm in college right now.
Four days a week I sit in a classroom learning things I already know won't matter to what I'm trying to build. I take attendance. I submit assignments. I follow a schedule designed for a version of life I never agreed to.
And the whole time — there's a war happening inside my head.
One side says: finish the degree, be practical, have a backup plan, don't throw away security.
The other side says: every hour you spend following someone else's path is an hour you didn't spend building your own.
I haven't resolved this war yet. I'm not going to pretend I have.
But I've learned something important from fighting it every single day.
The rat race doesn't announce itself.
Nobody tells you you're in it. There's no moment where someone sits you down and says — hey, this is the path that leads to average. Watch out.
It just starts.
You get admitted to college. You attend orientation. You make friends. You follow the schedule. You aim for good grades. You apply for internships. You get a job.
And somewhere in the middle of all of that — the original question disappears.
The question that used to keep you up at night. The one that felt urgent and electric and completely yours.
What do I actually want my life to look like?
Not what does my family want. Not what does society expect. Not what is the safest path.
What do YOU want?
Most people stop asking that question by 22. The system is very good at replacing it with smaller, more manageable questions. What internship should I apply for? What should I specialize in? What city should I move to?
Smaller questions that feel like progress — but are really just the rat race wearing a more acceptable mask.
What I actually want.
I want to be known after I die.
Not famous. Not viral. Known.
I want to have built things that outlasted me. I want the people who came after me to look at what I did and feel that their own ambitions were possible because of it.
I want to have earned my way to studying what I love — sports science, nutrition, entrepreneurship & psychology — without owing anyone anything for getting there.
I want to be one of the best athlete’s in the world.
I want Kravic to be the brand that a generation of people grew up wearing.
I want JustBuild to be the platform that changes how India's college students actually learn.
I want Build Young to be the document of what it looked like to try — honestly, publicly, imperfectly — before any of it was guaranteed.
And a lot. That's what I want.
And the college schedule, the assignments, the attendance register — none of that is moving me toward it.
So why am I still there?
Honestly? I'm still figuring that out.
Part of it is family. Part of it is fear. Part of it is the quiet, persistent voice that says — you're 19, maybe you don't know enough yet to make this call.
But here's what I do know:
The most dangerous thing isn't dropping out. The most dangerous thing is staying in — physically present in the classroom, mentally absent from your own life — and calling that responsibility.
The most dangerous thing is doing what everyone else is doing and hoping for a different result.
The most dangerous thing is being so afraid of the wrong path that you never commit to any path at all.
I'm not telling you to drop out. I'm not telling you that college is wrong for you.
I'm telling you to ask the honest question.
Not the one the career counselor asks. The one that keeps you awake at 1am.
Is this the right room?
The only answer that matters.
I don't have a framework for this one. I don't have a five-step system.
I just have one question I ask myself every morning before I open my laptop:
Am I moving toward the person I want to be remembered as — or away from them?
Some days the answer is yes. Some days I sit in a lecture and the answer is clearly no.
But asking the question every day means I never fully lose the thread.
The thread is everything.
Don't lose yours.
Building with you,
— Ansh Malviya
Founder - Kravic, JustBuild & WebCom Media
19 · Building in public
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