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🚜 365 Days of Stories: Day 40 - If You’re Not Deeply Committed to the Problem, You’ll Quit Midway
During my second entrepreneurial journey, my co-founder and I were talking about what kind of business we wanted to build. “It should be...
Partha Sarthi
Apr 92 min read
🚦 365 Days of Stories: Day 39 - Don’t Just Pick a Big Problem — Pick the Right Problem
Let’s talk about something that most first-time founders (including me) get wrong — how we pick a business idea. 🧠 The Logic That Led Me...
Partha Sarthi
Apr 82 min read
🚀 365 Days of Stories: Day 38 – The Best Cofounder Might Be the One Who Says No
In recent years, the IT industry has been going through a slowdown. With growing cost pressures, the first ones to be impacted are often...
Partha Sarthi
Apr 72 min read
🚀 365 Days of Stories: Day 37 – A Co-Founder Must Share Your Hunger
After my first attempt at finding a co-founder didn’t work out, we parted ways. But a month later, we reconnected. Over lunch, we...
Partha Sarthi
Apr 72 min read
🎯 365 Days of Stories: Day 36 – The Wrong Co-Founder Can Slow You Down
When I started my first entrepreneurial journey, I was a solo founder. I often felt that having a co-founder would have made things...
Partha Sarthi
Apr 72 min read
🚀 365 Days of Stories: Day 35 – Should You Leave a Job Without Clarity on What's Next?
In the last 10 years, I have changed 5 jobs. Except for one, I left every single one without having a clear plan for what’s next. The...
Partha Sarthi
Mar 302 min read


🚀 365 Days of Stories: Day 26 - Turning Around a Global Enterprise Account in 2 Months
As of now, I have shared turnaround stories of 3 accounts, and now let’s talk about another critical one. 🏢 The Challenge: A Global...
Partha Sarthi
Mar 182 min read


365 Days of Stories - Day 25: Navigating Hiring Challenges & Building a Strong Team
With 4 freshers joining in a week, the focus shifted to hiring 2-3 senior folks to handle the workload for long-term stability. I asked...
Partha Sarthi
Mar 142 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 17: When Customer Leader Priorities Clash with CEO Directives
Now that I had merged the Development & Maintenance teams, I thought the last challenge was resolving billing issues and aligning...
Partha Sarthi
Mar 32 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 15: When Tough Decisions Had to Be Made
This story is from an enterprise account where we were managing the entire suite of applications, handling both development and support....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 262 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 14: Turning Performance Challenges into a Competitive Advantage
During the process automation engagement, our team consisted of 20+ members, including both senior and junior engineers, alongside...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 262 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 13: Turning Around a High-Stakes Automation Project
Though I had decided to go back to a job, I knew my mission to solve traffic problems wasn’t over. I told myself—I’ll return to it when...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 252 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 12: The Coding Marathon & The Harsh Reality of Entrepreneurship
With design and core algorithms in place, I started coding on 30th Oct 2015. For the next 3 months, I worked day and night, and by 31st...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 222 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 11: Cracking the Ride Request Search Algorithm – Finding Requests for a Ride
After solving how to find a ride for a ride request, I realized that finding ride requests for a planned ride was a much harder problem....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 212 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 10: Cracking the Ride Search Algorithm – Matching Ride Requests to Rides
Once I structured rides as a graph network, the next step was solving the ride search problem—how do we efficiently find matching rides...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 203 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 8: The Evolution of Ride Matching – From Basic Geometry to Real-World Roads
Defining the Problem: What Is a Ride and a Ride Request? Before solving the problem, I needed to define two key concepts: ✔ Ride – A car...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 192 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 7: From Learning to Building – The Start of Product Development
With the core foundation in place, it was time for product development. Since this was a high-volume system, I knew scalability had to be...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 182 min read


365 Days of Stories – Day 6: Relearning to Code – Starting from Scratch
I had made up my mind— 🚫 No more hunting for a CTO. 🚫 No more hiring freshers. 🚫 No more job hunting. 👉 I would develop my product...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 162 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 5: The "Company" That Didn’t Exist
By now, I had accepted that finding a Cofounder & CTO was going to be difficult. No one from my network was ready to leave their stable,...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 4: The Shift from Tech to Business & The Search for a CTO
By this point, I had my problem statement and solution figured out—solving traffic congestion through a trust-based carpooling system....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
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