Dhruv Thakkar · Founder, Namastory
I've started three companies. This is the one I'd start again.
The story
In 2019 I co-founded TLJ Digital Marketing and grew it into a 30-person agency, learning how attention works, one small business at a time.
In 2021 I co-founded EV India, a marketplace and information platform for India’s electric vehicle buyers, and ran its marketing as CMO. It taught me how to build trust in a category people don’t yet understand.
A stint as Brand Solutions Manager at SocialPanga in Bengaluru showed me how big brands think. Behind all of it was a PGDM in Entrepreneurship from EDII Ahmedabad, which taught me why most ideas fail, and that it’s rarely the idea.
Why healthcare
Namastory began as a storytelling agency. Then a doctor asked us for help, then another, and we noticed something. The people who spend their lives earning trust in a consultation room were often invisible everywhere else.
So we stopped being an agency for everyone. After 8+ years in marketing and 50+ hospitals and doctors, Namastory builds brands, content and digital systems for healthcare, from Ahmedabad for the world.
I also host MedStories, because the best marketing for a doctor is the truth, told well.
What I believe
Trust is the only metric that compounds.
A good doctor shouldn't need to be a good marketer. That's our job.
Technology should make a hospital feel more human, not less.
Co-founder, TLJ Digital Marketing (2019)Co-founder & CMO, EV India (2021)Brand Solutions Manager, SocialPangaPGDM Entrepreneurship, EDIIFounder, NamastoryHost, MedStories
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