6 CGPA to a startup which is trying to change transportation

One has to do what society tells them to do but one cannot completely leave what they love to do. One such story is mine.

I have always been experimental and loved to do new things. I used to create my own inventions and make applications using different languages. Starting from age 13 when I attempted to make my own OS and fail miserably, I downloaded all OSes I could find and tried all of them just to understand, how they worked?

The more curious I got the more I got into my passion of technology and solving problem for the masses. I started my first project (first one to successfully work) which back then I used to call a startup was a Newsletter Service called HPTN (Do not ask me the full form). HPTN used to give you all the News related to Technology, Science, Cars and Startups because almost 5k emails used to drop into my Mailbox every week as I was subscribed to other Newsletter services.

It all started when people started asking me the question that how do I know so much? and I gave them the answer. The reply which I used to get most often was that it is too much work to know and understand which led to HPTN.

I used to do it manually with my friend Varun (the co-founder). I managed to get a number of people to subscribe which were pretty happy but then exams came. If you are an Indian I guess I do not need to explain any further but if you are not then let me simplify this by saying that you cannot pursue any of your hobbies or passion during your exams.

Exams came and went. After scoring average in my JEE Mains (Engineering Entrance Exam in India) and scoring terrible in my 12th board, I landed in a local college. By this time HPTN was dead.

Being low on confidence in the first semester exam I scored a 6 CGPA. By this time I had known that this isn't who I am. This is not my game and I have to be more like ME.

Guess What? I started my experimentation again. After helping a guy named Arjun Patidar, I found in the first week of college who wasn't happy about getting into IT branch I gave him all the knowledge and information I had and then he vanished I couldn't find him for weeks and months. When I finally met him during our 2nd semester exams he told me that he is working on a project. Something was different about him this time. He had become a pro coder.

Being a friend I helped to improve his project in the 3rd semester. By the end of 3rd Semester he asked me to join this project called "Easy Transportation".

We worked on this for some odd 6 months with his hardships and my experiments. An opportunity came to present ourselves at an Incubation Center created by the State Government which we grabbed reluctantly. We made the most out of it. Pitched there and got incubated.

June will mark an year to that day. We are in traction now and have hit Rs. 30 L in gross revenue in 2 months of being in service. We know it's not much but by the standards of our situation back then, we are happy with it and are determined about knocking numbers in the future and providing optimum service to our customers.

Well, that's my story. What's yours?

Is there anything you want to know about me? Anything you can relate to? Feel free to write down in the comment section. Thank you!