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by DerpyHamsterTough Tongue AI

I'm Ajitesh Abhishek, Co-Founder & CEO at Tough Tongue AI & Archie AI. Ask me anything!

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I'm Ajitesh Abhishek, Co-Founder & CEO of Tough Tongue AI & Archie AI. Tough Tongue AI helps professionals p...

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Hey Ajitesh, have 2 questions - mostly related to your decision to move to the US and come back to India 1. Why did ...

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If you don't mind sharing, any monetary outcomes when Fitso got acquired by Zomato? We don't hear a lot of ESOP ex...

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Hi Ajitesh, when was the first time you came across the idea of super capable AI models? Since you were in Google wor...

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by ZippyMochiFounder

Personal milestone: 1Cr in rev as a bootstrapper

Team is less than 10 people still, slowly growing. Net profit could be higher, that's top priority to work on now. Total cash invested by founders was 15L over 3-4 years.

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2019 - less than 30k 20 - 1.5L (after piv...

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We’re at about $400K bootstrapped with a team of 2 (me included), started in 2019. Revenue almost doubled in last 18 ...

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Ye lo goldstar

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2018 - 5 months into my first job, quit it, saved 2L rupees. Met my cofounder, bootstrapped by putting 2L rupees each...

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by DizzyQuokkaFounder

Bootstrapping isn't the hero, VC is not the villian

I'm the founder who "Left a ₹50L+ job. Raised $2M. Built something profitable. Shutting it down now." 👋🏼

My last post went viral - so much so that it came back to me through my first cousins who have just started their professional ...

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Bootstrapping is not a good choice if speed is critical to survival - think of no product moat and just playing in a ...