The Reality of Indian Education System Exposed

We sat down with Ayush Aryan — IIM alumnus, storyteller, and founder of 5Profile2IIM — to document the raw, unfiltered 0→1 journey of building a career mentorship platform for India's MBA aspirants from day one. This isn't a polished success story. It's a founder building in real time — turning his own IIM journey into a mentorship platform for the lakhs of students chasing the same dream he once chased. From cracking the IIM admissions game himself to building a brand that helps average-profile candidates beat the odds — Ayush holds nothing back about what it actually takes, both to get in, and to build a business around helping others do the same. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT 5PROFILE2IIM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5Profile2IIM is a career mentorship platform for MBA aspirants — helping students navigate CAT, profile-building, interviews, and the road to the IIMs with guidance from those who've actually been through it. → 5profile2iim.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE ZERO POINT FIVE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ India's podcast for the 0.5 stage — where the idea exists but the business is still being built. Hosted by Sourabh. No retrospectives. No hindsight. Just raw, present-tense founder conversations covering business models, the EdTech market, and the moment you almost quit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO THIS IS FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → MBA & CAT aspirants chasing the IIMs → Founders building in EdTech, mentorship, or career-tech → IIM hopefuls navigating profile-building and admissions → Anyone building a business out of their own hard-won experience ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. Opinions are personal views of the guest and host. We do not intend to defame any person, brand, or product. All media belongs to respective owners. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Indian startup podcast, 5Profile2IIM, Ayush Aryan, MBA mentorship India, CAT preparation India, IIM admissions, IIM aspirant, MBA aspirant India, career mentorship startup, EdTech startup India, profile building IIM, CAT exam India, Zero Point Five Show, Sourabh podcast, Indian startup 2026, MBA podcast India, IIM alumnus, founder podcast India, career tech India 🔔 Subscribe → never miss an episode 💬 Comment → your biggest takeaway