How a kid from San Francisco ended up starting a school in #india
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My start up failed and I had no money to pay rent. Three weeks later, having sold almost everything I owned, I boarded a plane to Bangkok with a one way ticket and a carry on backpack.My financial situation didn’t worry me. I only had a couple hundred dollars in my bank account but I had my laptop and I was a good software engineer.Good software engineers in the US can make $150 per hour freelancing, even while working remotely from beaches in Thailand.Nine months laterI was finishing up some work in a co-working space in Delhi, India when I ran into a local kid named Ayush. We started chatting and instantly hit it off. We both were start up kids and self taught programmers.We started talking about my travels and he asked me, “How can you afford this?”. I told him about the freelancing (...)