India, Sept. 4 -- While many entrepreneurs choose to build their businesses in Tier-1 cities like Bengaluru and Delhi, Supreeth Kashyap follows a different school of thought. The founder of the well-known apparel brand Wellbi has headquartered his company in Mysuru, Karnataka. In a conversation with HT.com, Kashyap opened up about his decision to live and work in a Tier-2 city, quitting his tech job for entrepreneurship, the mistakes he made on his way to building a profitable startup and more.

Born and raised in Mysuru, Supreeth Kashyap, 30, holds a degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. After graduating in 2017, he landed a job at Accenture in Bengaluru. It was a tech job that paid him a comforta...