India, June 23 -- Rohit Gupta, co-founder and COO of education consulting platform College Vidya, has shared the story of the most difficult phase of his entrepreneurial journey - when his wife sold her wedding jewelry to help him restart his business. Gupta described his wife as his "first investor" who believed in him when no one else did.

College Vidya was started by brothers Rohit Gupta and Mayank Gupta in 2019, who were later joined by Sarthak Garg. However, the journey to success - College Vidya made $7.69 as annual revenue in the financial year ending March 2025 - was paved with difficulties.

In a LinkedIn post shared on Tuesday afternoon, Gupta said that after two failed startups, his savings were gone, his father's retirement m...