history
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— building zerotrail (this is what i was supposed to build in 2021, maybe i was too early)
2024
— built march .
2023
— tried to keep the boat afloat for a few more months, later i joined another startup with my other co-founder to build fanbaseAI , got incubated in IIM Bangalore , raised angel round, worked till it got aqui-hired by a series B company.
2022
— made a few thousand dollars from pilot deals, ai was still not a thing by then, one of the co-founders quit.
2021
— with some runway i moved to sillicon velly of india, put up in hacker hostel called draper startup house to build invade with my co-founder (whom i hired as an intern last year).
2020
— covid hit, i dropped out from 3-year cs diploma program to build my first startup — invade — but ended up building for others to pay my bills, built MVPs and products at 80% margin with people who never built them before.
2018
— dropped high school cause i wanted to do something on my own instead of reading six volumes of chemistry but had to continue study for parents. spent most of the time with linux, bug bounty, breaking code, made raspberry pi-based physical VPN devices and sold.
2017
— i moved back to the city for high school, for IIT race actually, and got myself in the top junior college — narayana schools.
2015
— im admitted to a govt school in our village to finish my boards, opened my first facebook account, grew a social media page from 200k to 800k, joined as a junior admin and promoted to content head.
2014
— i was sent back home cause i piled up stress, was not eating well, talking to anybody. the doctor suggested let him do whatever he wants to do — there wasn't a single electronic device that i didn't tear apart at home and on weekends i would go to computer shop cause we didn't have either a computer or internet at our house.
2013
— from 47 roll to 14 then 6.. but i was still average kid there with above 97 percentile and for the first time in life i was introduced to a computer — ubuntu os, libre office calc, paints. the computer teacher would ask us to write something or draw — in few weeks the teacher left that lab to me to operate.
2011
— i'm in 6th standard with 47 roll no. and there are 106 kids more after that — first time in life i saw these many boys around me who are far better than me in everything. all i had was a 4x2 tin storage box with a pillow, bed sheets, a plate, mug, and few clothes — and for the first time in life i was about to wash my clothes, make my bed, do everything on my own.
2010
— i was good at academics till now and the only kid from our exam centre to qualify for a boarding school admission test (M-CAT: mission common admission test) in the city.
2005
— got admitted to the only private kinder-garden school, still 4 km far from our village— i was stubborn but my dad knew how to handle it — i wanted a bicycle but my dad said you will get a four-wheeler. he set me up for the moon from day one.
1999
— born in a small town called bongaon, india (where independence day is celebrated on 18th august,rest of india, 15th), 100km far from the city calcutta.