About
My Story
My story starts off many thousands and thousands of miles away.
When I was 4 years old, my parents immigrated from the country of Nepal to the United States of America with me, a few suitcases, and $1200. This moment changed the trajectory of my life forever. I’m blessed and thankful everyday for this decision of theirs.
At an early age, I was obsessed with one day running my own business. Just as my grandfather had done with a steel & furniture store in Nepal, and my dad with convenient stores here in the US. I dreamt of a day where I too would start, grow, and lead a large enterprise but for me that journey would be software based.
My coursework in high school or college never fully caught my interest. Maybe because, I knew that this wasn't the road to where I wanted to go. It wasn't until I was 19 that I found my truest and deepest desire: to launch and build start-ups and compete in the sport of business. I knew I wanted to get really good at this sport.
I'm lucky to have started young. At around the age of 20, the first seed of my journey was planted. I discovered the power of books & podcasts. I began reading ferociously at the pace of around 1 book a week in the subject of business, finance, startups, mindset, and other non-fiction titles.
I became obsessed with the dream that one day I would start, build, and grow a successful business of my own. At the time, I was in school for Electrical Engineering but I quickly became distracted and lost sight of where my college education was going to take me. I did complete my Engineering studies but I knew it wasn't where I was going to spend the majority of my career. Nonetheless, I did what ever college graduate does and ended up getting a job on the Technical Sales Engineering path.
It wasn't long into this new "career," where I realized that I was miserable working there and wanted so desperately to be working on my own business endeavors. Within 10 weeks of starting in this role, the company and I decided to go in other directions.
This was a turning point in my life because now I was off on my own. I was pushed into the deep end and at the age of 22, and I was responsible for figuring out how to generate my own cashflow to sustain myself and my lifestyle at that time.
At the time, my monthly expenses were around $2000/month and I had about 6 months until I ran out of my savings. I knew that the worst case scenario was to move back home with my parents. But as a recent college grad, I wasn't scared of that. It gets more frightening as you get older so the sooner you can do something about your entrepreneurial dreams the better.
8 months later I was making 25k/month with that business. At the age of 23, I thought I had made it. A young man with a 25k/month business with ~70% profit margins + with a 10/hour per week work schedule. It seemed surreal to me.
Naturally with all this free time, I became distracted. I developed what you might call "Shiny Object Syndrome". Rather than trying to build on the foundations I had already set for myself, I went off to start new businesses in tandem. In hindsight, this was a big mistake.
At one point, as a 23yr old, I was debating buying a Maserati GT or investing into a high-level mastermind group. I'm so glad I chose the latter. What a joke that would've been if I had chosen the car instead. The mastermind investment ended up being one of the most incredible learning, networking, and growth experiences of my early career & life.
Since then, I've gone off to start multiple product/service lines in Marketing Automation, Big Data, Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Micropayments, and Education Technology with varying levels of success and a lot of lessons learned in-between.
I'm so thankful to have started as young as I did. I look back now and I am proud of myself for doing what I knew was the right move at the time.
I'm having a blast and I hope you can find the courage to pursue whatever it is you're wanting to do as well. Good luck!
What I'm Doing Now
I'm now at a point in life where I don't need to
continuously run on the hamster wheel to make ends meet.
Nowadays, I get to work on what I want and I'm taking a longer-view on my next business. We're in STEALTH MODE right now so I can't share too much with you just yet.
As a leader within my organization, I look for "A" players to work with. Those that have energy and passion to learn, grow, and build. I enjoy working with those that have the same kind of drive & energy as myself with complementary skillsets.
If that sounds like you, I encourage you to reach out and let's get to know each other.
In the meantime, you can learn more about what I'm doing by following me on Twitter: @diveej3
"There's a big difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
I'm glad you're here. Whether you're just getting started, making progress, or have years of experience in your business, reach out and let's talk. I love connecting with people who share similar passions as myself. If you wish to get in contact with me, please use one of the many contact forms on this site, you never know what will come out of it. Hope to talk soon.
