Billionaire India: What Happens When You Turn Your Life Into an Experiment to Become a Billionaire?
On 18 September 2023, Anshul Sinha started an experiment
The question was simple:
What happens if I genuinely try to become a billionaire—and document every step of the journey?
Not as a motivational challenge.
Not as a fictional story.
But as a real-life experiment.
That experiment became Billionaire India—an ongoing entrepreneurial micro-series documenting Anshul Sinha’s journey of building businesses, creating products, taking risks, facing uncertainty, building a brand, creating a film, and trying to build something that can reach a national and international audience.
But the bigger mission was never just about one person becoming a billionaire.
It was about creating a world where more people in India believe that they can build something valuable enough to create extraordinary wealth and impact.
From Corporate Job to Entrepreneurship
Every entrepreneurial journey starts with a decision.
For Anshul, that decision was to leave his corporate career and build his own startup, Output Media.
From the outside, leaving a stable job can look like freedom.
From the inside, it comes with very real questions.
How will you pay your bills?
Where will the next client come from?
How do you build credibility when nobody knows you?
How do you survive without a fixed salary?
And most importantly:
How do you build something that can grow beyond yourself?
Anshul chose to document those questions instead of hiding them.
Over the years, he worked with 100+ clients, built Output Media, developed his skills, created projects, built relationships and learned how to turn his expertise into a business.
But eventually, another question emerged:
Can a service business become the foundation for building products at a much larger scale?
That question led to the next chapter.
From Services to Building a Product
One of the biggest lessons of entrepreneurship is understanding the difference between selling your time and building an asset.
Anshul wanted to experiment with that transition.
The result was Million Views—a massive self-funded feature film.
Creating a film independently is difficult.
Creating one without traditional studio backing, funding it yourself, building a large team and taking it to an international theatrical market is an entirely different challenge.
The journey involved:
Developing the concept
Writing and developing the screenplay
Building the team
Working with hundreds of people
Arranging the finances
Managing production
Completing post-production
Building the brand
Marketing the film
Finding distribution
Taking the film to an international market
Eventually, Million Views was released across 65 theatres in Nepal.
For Anshul, the theatrical release wasn't simply the destination.
It was another experiment.
Can an individual entrepreneur build a product from scratch, self-fund it, build a brand around it and take it to an international audience?
53 Episodes. One Real Journey.
The most important part of Billionaire India is that the journey was not created after everything was successful.
It was recorded while the journey was actually happening.
For nearly three years, Anshul documented the process of building, experimenting, failing, learning and starting again.
The result is a 53-episode recorded journey that captures the evolution of the experiment.
The episodes document the thinking behind the decisions, the business challenges, the creative process, the search for opportunities, the process of building Output Media, the creation of Million Views and the larger ambition of building something that can scale.
The complete journey is available on Anshul Sinha's YouTube channel:
But the story doesn't exist only in long-form episodes.
From Long-Form Documentary to Micro-Series
The entire Billionaire India journey has also been transformed into a micro-series format.
The same entrepreneurial journey has been released as short-form content across:
YouTube Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/@sinhaanshul66/shorts
This makes the series accessible to people who may not have the time to watch a long-form episode but still want to follow the journey one insight at a time.
Each short becomes a small piece of the larger experiment.
A business lesson.
A failure.
A realization.
A decision.
A fear.
A breakthrough.
A new experiment.
Together, these short episodes create a different way of experiencing the same three-year journey.
Long-form gives you the journey.
Short-form gives you the moments.
Billionaire India Is About the Process
Most people only see the final result.
They see a successful company.
They see a product launch.
They see a film in theatres.
They see revenue.
They see an entrepreneur standing on a stage.
But they rarely see the thousands of decisions that happened before that moment.
Billionaire India attempts to capture those decisions.
The wins.
The failures.
The doubts.
The financial pressure.
The experiments.
The business decisions.
The creative process.
The uncomfortable conversations.
The search for customers.
The process of building a team.
The process of creating products.
And the process of trying to turn an idea into something people are willing to pay for.
It is essentially a real-world case study of entrepreneurship.
Why "Billionaire India"?
Because the ambition is bigger than one person.
India has millions of talented people.
People with skills.
People with ideas.
People solving problems.
People building businesses from their homes.
People creating products.
People developing technology.
People providing services.
People with the potential to build companies that can serve millions of customers.
But many never attempt it.
They stop because of fear.
Fear of failure.
Fear of financial instability.
Fear of what their family will say.
Fear of leaving a job.
Fear of competition.
Fear that their idea isn't good enough.
Billionaire India is an attempt to challenge that mindset.
The objective is to document one person's journey so that thousands of other people can learn from it and start building their own.
Maybe they won't become billionaires.
Maybe someone will build a ₹1 crore business.
Someone else might build a ₹10 crore company.
Another person might build a ₹100 crore business.
And someone might eventually build a billion-dollar company.
The number is not the point.
The creation is.
A Playbook for Builders
Billionaire India is being created for people who want to build something.
It could be:
A startup.
A product.
A service.
A personal brand.
A creative business.
A technology company.
A film.
A book.
A skill.
Or anything else that can create value for people at a national or international level.
The series attempts to explore practical questions:
How do you start when you don't have a lot of money?
How do you find your first customers?
How do you build credibility?
How do you turn a skill into a business?
How do you create a product?
How do you fund that product?
How do you build a brand?
How do you market it?
How do you take it beyond your city?
How do you take it beyond India?
And perhaps the most important question:
How do you keep going when the outcome is uncertain?
The Experiment Is Still Running
The most interesting part of Billionaire India is that the story isn't finished.
There is no predetermined ending.
Anshul doesn't know exactly where this experiment will lead.
That is what makes it an experiment.
The series is still ongoing.
Every new project becomes another chapter.
Every failure becomes data.
Every customer becomes feedback.
Every product becomes an experiment.
Every opportunity becomes a possibility.
And every mistake becomes part of the documentation.
The goal is not to pretend that entrepreneurship is easy.
The goal is to show what it actually looks like.
From One Entrepreneur to an Ecosystem of Builders
The ultimate vision behind Billionaire India is simple:
Create more builders.
Because a country becomes stronger when its people don't only look for jobs—they also create businesses, products, technologies, services and opportunities for others.
If one person's journey can help another entrepreneur avoid one mistake, discover one opportunity or simply find the courage to start, then the documentation has served its purpose.
Anshul Sinha started Billionaire India on 18 September 2023 with a personal experiment.
Three years of that journey have now been documented across 53 episodes, with the story also being transformed into a micro-series for Instagram and YouTube Shorts.
But the experiment is still running.
The story is still being written.
And the mission remains the same:
To see more people in India build.
More products.
More companies.
More creators.
More entrepreneurs.
More global businesses.
And perhaps, more billionaires.
Because maybe the next billionaire isn't waiting for an opportunity.
Maybe they're building it right now.
Follow the Journey
Watch the complete 53-episode Billionaire India journey on YouTube:
Follow the Billionaire India micro-series on Instagram and YouTube Shorts to experience the journey in short-form episodes.
This isn't a story about someone who became a billionaire.
It's the story of someone who decided to find out if he could.
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