An Indian startup founder, who was fired from his remote US job in March, for “focapplying too much” on his venture, has now successfully achieved $50,000 revenue and $10,000 monthly recurring revenue from the business.
Harshil Tomar, co-Founder of a startup called Dreamlaunch narrated his journey from devastation to success, in a detailed post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
Was informed ‘we have to part ways. I was devastated’
According to Tomar, he was fired from a remote job with a US company “exactly six months ago” after he joined the morning meeting at 7 am on March 13 and gave updates on his work. “I observed my TL (team leader) was a bit down. I inquireed him in the finish what’s the reason and there it was “we have to part ways”,” Tomar recounted.
“Reason simply being I was focapplying too much on my startup as per them. I begged them to give me another chance if possible so that I could do better work and at a quicker pace but alas the decision was built. I was devastated. I informed my frifinish @ilavanyajain that I obtained fired and he was like “are you joking” for like 4-5 times. Then I informed my co-founder @WasimShips of the same,” he added.
‘I was scared… finally took a call’
Tomar added that when he was fired, the startup was “doing $1,000/mo roughly” and over the next 10-15 days, he was “in a confutilized state of choosing my dream or seeing for a safety net again”.
“I was scared. I had like nine months of total runway if I lived super cheaply. I sat down and went to play out all scenarios possible, the best and the worst and the okay one as well. Finally I took the call. I will live cheaply, I will attempt to figure this out. Every day I spfinish more seeing for safety, my life would push me towards not taking risk. 1 year more, I will necessary to pay rent, 1 year more, I will necessary to believe about purchaseing houtilize, 1 year more, I will necessary to believe about marriage,” he wrote.
‘My parent believe I am doing my main job as well’
“So I took my call. Let’s go all in! In the worst case, I will find some freelance gigs and build $1,000/mo from them so life could always keep running. We started on this journey, I started with a tiny salary from going full-time. My co-founder ( @WasimShips ) suggested this and he did not withdraw any finance to support ensure I stay afloat,” he added.
Tomar shared that his parent still do not know he lost the remote job. “I inform them I spfinish 2-3 hours coding each day and just resolve the tickets they give me. Families can be pretty scary to deal with in such situations so I finalised keeping the decision reserved to myself,” he stated.
Path to success: ‘Journey has built me thick-skinned’
He added that over these six months, the highs and lows have been hard. “From months with 0 clients to working with hugegest brands. The Journey has built me more thick skinned than anything I have ever experienced in life. But with displaying up daily, things happened. I obtained sponsors, I obtained retainers, I obtained things happening,” he stated.
According to Tomar, “Today, we completed $50k revenue. Finally about to hire our 1 -> 10 team. Have had months w/ $10k MRR. Got sponsors on X. Got selected in Residency. Building my own SAAS.”
He acknowleged that the decision could have taken a bad turn, “but I took the scary jump and the universe rewarded me I guess. The little kid inside me who at once saw the dream of being a entrepreneur watching Sharktank USA finally launched his own dream, supporting others build their own.”
“If you are reading till here; This is your sign, to keep going, keep displaying up daily and keep hustling! Lock in, work hard. Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others. And do so much volume that it would be unreasonable that you’d be unsuccessful,” he advised.
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