hey X, i'm Pavan
age 19: building a VC backed company & recently hit XX ARR, won 7 hackathons, generated 28M views.
age 15: relocated from India to the United States.
i was at ground zero:
- no extracurriculars
- no purpose to guide me
- no friends to help me
- no american accent (yes it’s a problem here)
- no cultural understanding
- no educational system understanding
Nothing.
In India, all I ever knew about was studies,
study well enough and get into IIT (India's premier tech school)
here, I had to adapt, and so I did,
in the matter of 2 years, I:
> Became top 250 in the world and competed at world championship for robotics
> Lead 10k people in technology in california-nevada-hawaii
> Built my first startup, spent 1000 hours and got 200 people on the waitlist
> did MUCH more than that!
After all that, college application season came,
And I was met with disappointment, i got rejected by all my dream schools.
However, instead of slowing down, I sped up,
I took several risks:
> I set aside my fear of posting, and clicked “Post” on LinkedIn & X.
> I applied for research with NO experience
> I submitted my Cisco application at 11:59 PM the day it was due.
And it paid off!
> I met INCREDIBLE people and grew fast.
> I became a research intern in Computational Neurology
> I got into the Cisco Internship and made my mark!
Now I am on to something bigger:
> I am relocating to SF to build Clean (
@cleanailabs)
> Got into Founders Inc & JSV Launchpad.
> Recently hit XX ARR & growing very fast WoW.
But this is JUST the beginning.
Follow along to see my journey.
tryclean{dot}ai