Kanak Agrawal graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and began her career at McKinsey & Company in Gurgaon, following a path that seemed almost pre-decided given her upbringing near Kota, where IIT preparation dominates life, and with her brother already having taken the same route, she simply followed along, later admitting that it never truly felt like a conscious choice of her own.
After her time at McKinsey, she went on to co-found a startup with friends and dedicated five years to building it, achieving what many would consider success, yet despite things going well externally, she felt a persistent lack of fulfillment, realizing that neither her corporate job nor her entrepreneurial journey felt truly aligned with who she was or what she wanted from life.
