Shark Tank’s Vineeta Singh recalls moving to Mumbai with ₹10,000 salary at 23: ‘First few months were really hard’

Vineeta is the co-founder of the popular makeup-skincare brand, Sugar Cosmetics. Besides her, Shark Tank India Season 2 also feature Anupam Mittal, Peyush Bansal, Namita Thapar, Aman Gupta, and Amit Jain, who replaced Ashneer Grover after the first season. The show is hosted by comedian Rahul Dua.

During a conversation with Pinkvilla, Vineeta shared she struggles after shifting to a new city. She said, “Mumbai, I moved with my first start-up at 23, and it was hard because at that time I really had to figure a way out to live independently, which means renting a house and getting your help in place and all of that at the first salary of ₹10,000, which then became, 25,000 which then eventually became 50,000, which then seemed like a luxury. So the first few months were really hard.”

“Interestingly, I moved after graduation, which happens in like March, April, so I moved in July, which is probably the worst time anybody can choose to move in Mumbai because the next two-three months is like monsoon, and there’s seepage in the house and getting a rickshaw is so hard, and you have to walk like a kilometer before you get rejections by 100 rickshaw drivers. I think before all the 100 BC rejections I got 100 rickshaw driver rejections in my whole journey,” she added.

Comparing Mumbai and Delhi, Vineeta called it a ‘shocker’ as Delhi has bigger houses, lawns, roads, fast traffic and only a month-long monsoon. She also added that whereas in Mumbai she could at 3-4 am without about her safety, or can stay out late with friends. She said this is how she fell in love with the City of Dreams. “Now I love this city, but yes, the first three or four months were hard because I was a hardcore Delhi girl,” she also said.