TGH Tech

The Beginning

When a college student discovers entrepreneurship exists

Picture this: a second-year computer science student who just discovered that entrepreneurship exists, walking into a room full of ambitious builders who were actually making things happen. That was me joining TGH Tech through YE Stack, and honestly, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

TGH Tech wasn't just a startup. It was my entrepreneurial university. While my college friends were studying algorithms, I was learning something completely different: how to turn ideas into reality across multiple domains without getting stuck in any single one.

My first real project was BuildStack, a coding challenge app I built entirely on my own. Students could take coding challenges and climb up leaderboards. Pretty straightforward, but building it from scratch taught me something powerful: you really can create something out of nothing with just code. That feeling was addictive.

The Exploration

Discovering the generalist superpower

But here's where things got interesting. Instead of diving deeper into development (which would've been the obvious path), I got curious about everything else.

Design caught my attention next, and I fell hard. This wasn't just about making things look pretty. I was learning from Steve Jobs' approach to design as a philosophy of how things should work. I managed designers, worked on multiple products, and realized design goes way beyond UI and UX.

Then came DevOps, because I wanted to understand how you take something from your local machine to the world. After that, sales and marketing, because what's the point of building if no one knows about it? Finally, product management, where I learned to see the entire puzzle from above.

Looking back, TGH Tech was where I discovered my superpower: the ability to understand how all the pieces fit together. I learned that when you've tried everything and loved elements of the entire journey, you can orchestrate from the top and leave the deep skill work to people who are better than you at specific things. But having that breadth means you can build something truly beautiful.

Moving Forward

Building ahead of trends, learning from failures

We built ahead of trends. Like Boring Bots, our automation tools that predicted the automation boom. Most of our products failed, but I'm proud of how much we tried. Each failure taught me something new about what it takes to build products people actually love.

All those experiments, all those products built from scratch, all those 0-1 journeys taught us something valuable: we were really good at taking ideas and turning them into real, working products fast. We pivoted into becoming a tech partner for early-stage startups. Not just another dev shop, but a team that actually understood the founder journey because we'd lived it ourselves. We knew what it felt like to have a vision and limited capital, to need to move fast but build right, to wear multiple hats while trying to validate product-market fit.

The Transition

When it's time for the next adventure

When Anand and Arun brought the CineTokens idea forward in 2022, and with the decentralization wave looking promising, I felt the pull to take a fully-focused route in taking a product to market. I still take sales for TGH Tech, as it is still one area where I can create value and also work on building the sales muscle.

TGH Tech gave me my foundation as an entrepreneur, but more importantly, it proved that my instinct to explore broadly rather than specialize early was actually a strategy, not a weakness. Everything I learned there (from those late nights debugging code to those early sales calls to those design reviews) became building blocks for everything that came after.

Sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I had stayed focused on just coding or just design. But honestly? I can't imagine it any other way. TGH Tech taught me that the most interesting problems live at the intersections, and the most valuable founders are the ones who can see the whole game, not just their piece of it.