Nobody handed me the enterprise.

Born and raised in a small village, then Gurgaon around the fifth grade, in my grandparents’ joint-family house.

Never the brightest kid in the class. Finished school at Chiranjiv Bharati, Palam Vihar.

First email address at sixteen. That account is long gone.

Microsoft FrontPage, then Macromedia Dreamweaver, back when Macromedia was still Macromedia.

Colleges did not entertain my applications. I dropped out of a distance-education B.Com and joined a call centre as a technical support executive. I did well there.

Started this site. Found Blogger, then WordPress, and hated WordPress at first.

Blogger turned out to be the limit, so I gave in.

Then built ReviewSaurus, a tech blog that went from zero to 200,000 pageviews a month.

Co-founded Blog Design Studio in Skopje with Rajat Bhadani and Nikola Dimev. When they moved toward mobile apps, I stayed with the web.

Founded Monks Bistro, and hired engineers out of the colleges that had not thought me worth a place.

Stepped away from Monks Bistro and moved to the US.

Sales, marketing, technology, team building and client management turned into product, program and project leadership. I still work like someone who used to own the company.