India, Jan. 25 -- A Bengaluru-based founder has advised youngsters to focus on upskilling rather than worrying about the recent rally in gold and silver prices. Abid Hassan, founder of options trading platform Sensibull, backed his advice with a personal anecdote.

Hassan said that in the year 2000, he received an 8-gram gold medal for scoring well in 10th grade. The cost of the gold at that time was around Rs.4,000. Today, the same amount of gold would be worth nearly Rs.1.2 lakh.

Hassan, at that time, sold the medal to fund coaching classes for an entrance exam. He later went on to do a BTech from NIT Calicut, and then a post-graduate diploma in management from IIM Ahmedabad.

Looking back, Hassan does not regret selling the gold medal...