4+ years in SFO // IND since 2019
“Moving back to India was an obvious choice given India is a huge market which is completely untapped and there is a lot of potential to build something interesting.”
I built two companies in India, one of which was acquired by Intel. I worked with Intel for a year and then went to do my MBA at Stanford. I worked with Apple after that. In Nov 2016, both my wife and I got our Green Card. However, for us, moving back to India was an obvious choice as India is a huge market which is completely untapped and there is a lot of potential to build something interesting. The development horsepower in India is high and good food in India is a huge plus as well. Initially it was not very easy for us. I felt that market nuances necessary to build startups did not come to me as naturally. Being an engineer in a Series A startup in India is better in PPP terms compared to being an engineer in the US; you can afford and live life king size in India. I think of India as a 72 year old startup that is in the process of blitzscaling – with increasing smartphone and internet penetration and tech fluency. I shuttle between India and the US 10 days every 2 months to be with my wife.