[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-vansh-sobti-cloud-nine-clothing":3,"related-vansh-sobti-cloud-nine-clothing":173},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"canonical":158,"city":159,"date":160,"description":161,"extension":162,"faq":159,"image":163,"meta":164,"navigation":165,"path":166,"seo":167,"slug":168,"stem":169,"tag":170,"updated":171,"__hash__":172},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fvansh-sobti-cloud-nine-clothing.md","Vansh Sobti: Building Cloud Nine Clothing to $10M at 22","Loic Bachellerie",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":147},"minimark",[10,14,19,22,25,29,32,39,42,46,49,52,58,62,65,68,71,77,80,84,87,90,96,100,103,106,110,113,116,119,125],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Vansh Sobti is 22 years old. His company, Cloud Nine Clothing, just crossed\n$10 million in revenue. He started it with $5,000 in savings, over 100\nmanufacturer rejections, and prototypes sewn from his mom's old hoodies.\nThis is how he got here.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"the-idea","The idea",[11,20,21],{},"It started as a university assignment. The brief was simple: combine two\nexisting products into one. Vansh pitched a hoodie with built-in stress balls.\nHis project partner chose a different concept, and they moved on. But Vansh\nnever forgot the idea.",[11,23,24],{},"A year later, in 2022, he came back to it. The name came from the phrase\n\"I'm on cloud nine\", that feeling of pure joy. He wanted\ncustomers to literally wear that feeling. And so Cloud Nine Clothing was born.",[15,26,28],{"id":27},"the-problem-was-personal","The problem was personal",[11,30,31],{},"Vansh has social anxiety. Stress balls helped him manage it, but pulling one out\nin public sometimes made the anxiety worse. He knew there had to be a way to\nbuild that relief into something you'd wear every day, something that\ndidn't draw attention.",[11,33,34],{},[35,36],"img",{"alt":37,"src":38},"Cloud Nine Clothing brand imagery","\u002FINSTAGRAM\u002F2\u002F1.jpg",[11,40,41],{},"The idea wasn't just about hoodies. After launching, Vansh realized anxiety\nis just one part of a much broader spectrum. Some people need texture. Others\nneed sound or something to bite. Cloud Nine is now expanding into sensory apparel\nthat addresses all kinds of stimuli, not just what Vansh personally\nexperiences.",[15,43,45],{"id":44},"building-the-product","Building the product",[11,47,48],{},"The first prototypes were scrappy. Vansh was cutting up old hoodies from his\nmom's closet and sewing different ideas together by hand. His mom helped\nwith the early stitching. He had no background in fashion or manufacturing. He\nwas learning everything from scratch.",[11,50,51],{},"Manufacturing was the hardest part. No manufacturer wanted to take on a product\nthis unconventional. Vansh contacted over 100 manufacturers before one finally\nagreed to work with him. That persistence (hearing \"no\" a hundred\ntimes and still believing) became the foundation of everything that followed.",[11,53,54],{},[35,55],{"alt":56,"src":57},"Vansh Sobti working on Cloud Nine Clothing","\u002FINSTAGRAM\u002F2\u002F3.jpg",[15,59,61],{"id":60},"year-one","Year one",[11,63,64],{},"The first three months were, in Vansh's words, \"horrible.\" Bills\nwere piling up, inventory costs were climbing, ads weren't converting, and\nnothing seemed to gain traction. Every day made him question everything.",[11,66,67],{},"So he did the only thing he could: he posted five videos a day on social media,\nevery single day, by himself. It was exhausting and overwhelming, but it was free.\nThe first year, Cloud Nine did about $100,000 in revenue, but ended roughly\n$10,000 in the red. Growth was inconsistent. The brand's sustainability was\ngenuinely in question.",[11,69,70],{},"Meanwhile, Vansh was a full-time university student. And under pressure from his\nparents to have something stable as a backup, he was simultaneously studying for\nhis mortgage broker's license. Three commitments at once. He'd work on\nCloud Nine during lectures, finish business tasks after class, and study for exams\nlate at night. Socializing mostly stopped.",[11,72,73],{},[35,74],{"alt":75,"src":76},"Cloud Nine Clothing product showcase","\u002FINSTAGRAM\u002F2\u002F4.jpg",[78,79],"blog-cta",{},[15,81,83],{"id":82},"the-10m-year","The $10M year",[11,85,86],{},"Year two brought $500,000 in revenue. Not profitable yet, but no longer in the\nred: the brand was breaking even. Then 2025 happened. Cloud Nine did\n$10 million in revenue and sold over 100,000 hoodies.",[11,88,89],{},"When asked what hitting $10M felt like, Vansh's answer is surprising:\n\"It almost felt the same as when we were doing $100,000.\" He'd\nbeen living with the vision for so long, believing in it so deeply, that the\nmilestone didn't feel like a dramatic shift. It felt like he was just\ncontinuing the same day he'd been living for years.",[11,91,92],{},[35,93],{"alt":94,"src":95},"Vansh Sobti and Cloud Nine Clothing growth","\u002FINSTAGRAM\u002F2\u002F5.jpg",[15,97,99],{"id":98},"impact-recognition","Impact & recognition",[11,101,102],{},"What started as one founder's personal struggle has become something much\nbigger. Cloud Nine isn't just selling hoodies. It's building a new\ncategory of sensory apparel. The brand has resonated with people across the\nspectrum of anxiety, ADHD, and sensory needs, and Vansh is now developing\nproducts that incorporate different types of stimuli beyond what he personally\nexperiences.",[11,104,105],{},"Vansh's entrepreneurial instinct didn't start with Cloud Nine. At 16,\nhe was running dropshipping stores and white-label brands, making $100,000 from\na store called Space Lights before he could even drive. That early exposure to\nreal money at a young age shaped his perspective: \"Money started to be a\nfictional thing. All my business ventures were never about the money aspect. It's\nmore so because I actually enjoyed doing it.\"",[15,107,109],{"id":108},"what-people-overlook","What people overlook",[11,111,112],{},"Building a product for anxiety as a young man came with its own friction. Vansh\ndidn't broadcast what he was working on. A lot of his friends didn't\neven know he was running a company. When classmates saw him working on Cloud Nine\nduring lectures, he'd explain it matter-of-factly. He wasn't building\nthe brand to flex. He was building it because he saw a genuine gap in the\nmarket.",[11,114,115],{},"Some people told him it would never work. One person said people buy clothing for\nhow it looks, not functionality, and called his designs ugly because they were\nplain. Vansh kept going.",[11,117,118],{},"That's the part of the story that matters most. Not the $10M headline, but\nthe hundreds of quiet days where nothing was working and he chose to keep\nbuilding anyway. If you're a founder in that phase right now, Vansh's\nstory is proof that the vision can be worth the grind.",[120,121,122],"ul",{},[123,124],"li",{},[11,126,127,128,133,134,140,141,146],{},"Founder Feast spotlights entrepreneurs who are building something real. 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