I moved from India to Canada with nothing. No connections. No industry knowledge
By Kamaljit Singh · April 22, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
I moved from India to Canada with nothing.
No connections. No industry knowledge. No safety net.
People ask why I work the way I do. This is why.
When I came to Canada, I worked in telecom (at Telus). Stable job. Decent pay.
But I knew it wasn't going to build the life I wanted.
2015: I found Amazon. Started with retail arbitrage.
I remember driving 3 hours to a clearance sale to buy 20 units of a discontinued toy.
Made $400 profit.
I thought I'd made it.
That $400 taught me something: if I can find products people want and present them correctly, the platform does the rest.
2016: Launched my private label brand.
Did $400K (revenue) in year two. Not because the product was special. Because I obsessed over how it LOOKED in search results.
While other sellers were copy-pasting manufacturer photos, I was testing 3 different hero images every month.
First client was a friend who saw my listings and said "Can you do mine?"
That one question became a company.
2017: Started AMZ One Step.
Now we're 150+ team members across 4 countries.
Over 200,000 infographics created (before AI).
But here's what people don't see:
Year 1 was brutal. I was wearing every hat. Full time job + AMZ One Step. 16-hour days. Every single day.
Year 2 was worse. We grew fast. Quality slipped. I almost burned it all down.
Year 3 and 4 were same.
Year 5 was the turning point. I stopped being a worker and started being a builder. Systems. Processes. Team structure.
Here's what immigration taught me about business:
When you start with nothing, you learn that EFFORT is the only variable you control.
→ You can't control the algorithm
→ You can't control Amazon's policies
→ You can't control competition
But you can outwork and out-learn everyone.
That's still how we operate.
Not smarter. Not luckier.
More prepared. More disciplined. More data-driven.
That's what built AMZ One Step.
And that's what I tell every seller who thinks they can't compete.
You can. If you're willing to do the work nobody else wants to do.