I think world is better with creators who can change how it works and push everyone forward. I have been creating and learning how to create more complex and better things since I first got my hands on a Pentium 1 computer back in 1995. I have never looked back since then.
I did my engineering from BITS Pilani, India (2007-11). Post graduation I started a company called MessageDance, which brought newsletters from the email trash bin to within Facebook pages.
After failing to get traction, I entered the world of Javascript and build a sports analytics software for TV2, Norway with a startup BravoLucy.
With my new found full stack skillset, I experimented with Knowledge graphs for Alumni networks, WebRTC based Telemedicine app for Indian Doctors (2014). Market was not ready for these products at the time.
Then I came across Magic, and the idea of doing ecommerce on chat. I built SuperGenie, built a team of 20, gained traction, and soon realized the business model was not sustainable. We spent the remaining funds building a chatbot engine, called BotMan. And in 2015 the world was not yet ready for chatbots.
Failures are hard, especially harder when you have to let go of people who were depending on you. It took me 3 months to come out of the depressed state post SuperGenie.
Then Facebook Messenger launched in 2016 and now everyone was talking chatbots. I had built an expertise in a market people were blinded by the hype. I got approached by IMImobile to build and lead their R&D team around AI and Chatbots.
I spent last 3.5 years building a self serve Chatbot platform for Enterprises in a market dominated by IBM watson, Api.ai and Microsoft Cortana, we were able to win RFPs due to the superiority of our product and humility to understand the limits of NLP. We won awards, served large enterprise customers, and built a world class team of engineers and data scientists at IMImobile. This year the product is part of the acquisition of IMImobile by Cisco. This was good end to my first chapter as an entrepreneur.
Now the two markets I care about more than anything else now is Automation and Gaming. More on that in the next one.