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, well-paying job to join me full-time.
So, I pivoted. 👉 Let’s hire freshers and build the product under my guidance.
But what happened next was something I never expected.
The Plan: Hiring Freshers from NCST
I decided to go to NCST, where I did my post-graduate course.
📌 NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) offered an extremely difficult course called FPGDST. 📌 The total intake was 160 students, but only 50% remained after 6 months due to the difficulty level. 📌 By the end, only 5-10% graduated. 📌 Even those who didn’t complete the course ended up in great careers—that’s how intense it was.
I thought, this is the best place to find solid freshers.
I met the Head of Placements, hoping to get access to students.
Then this conversation happened:
🔹 “What’s your company name?” 👉 “I haven’t decided yet.”
🔹 “Is it registered?” 👉 “No.”
🔹 “How many people in your company?” 👉 “Just me.”
🔹 “Is it funded?” 👉 “No.”
Then he said something that shattered my confidence:
“So, what do I tell my students? That an entrepreneur with no company, no funding, and no team wants to hire them?”
💔 That was brutal.
He refused to let me talk to the students. One month had already passed without a salary.
Reality Was Hitting Hard
By now, August had started.
📉 No Cofounder. 📉 No CTO. 📉 No team. 📉 No product development started.
My family started suggesting I go back to a job.
I considered freelancing, but then I asked myself: “What can I even sell?”
🤷♂️ I was a management guy—I had spent 5 years leading teams, not writing code. 🤷♂️ Without a company, I had no team to manage. 🤷♂️ I couldn’t even earn ₹1 from freelancing because I had no technical skills left.
This was highly frustrating.
I decided—even if I go back to a job, I will return to tech.
A Moment of Frustration & Realization
I applied for technical jobs, and one interviewer asked me: “How do you compare two strings?”
At that moment, it hit me—
📉 “What nonsense am I doing? I left a senior role to solve a global problem, and here I am, being tested on string comparison.”
This was absurd.
💡 Right then, I made a bold decision—
🚀 Forget hiring a team. Forget finding a Cofounder & CTO. I’ll build the product myself.
Next: Relearning Tech from Scratch
With zero coding practice for 5 years, I had to relearn everything from scratch.
How did I do it? That’s the story for tomorrow.
Have You Ever Felt Stuck?
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt completely stuck and had to restart from zero?
Would love to hear your experiences in the comments! 👇
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