Building a Company from a Dorm Room
Co-founded a digital agency. Somehow it worked.
Co-founded and led the technical side of Growth Heads Digital — a web development and digital marketing agency that grew to six-figure revenue, 25+ clients, and a team of 30 interns. Covered in Business Standard, The Print, and ANI. Learned more from this than from most of my formal education.
What it is
Growth Heads Digital started as a side project during my undergraduate years in Mumbai and became something real. We built web solutions for clients using the MERN stack — everything from e-commerce platforms to marketing sites to internal tools — and handled the full stack: development, cloud hosting, SEO, and client management.
By the time I left to start my master's in the US, we'd completed 25+ projects, scaled to six-figure revenue, and mentored a team of 30 interns in web development. The press coverage is linked below.
What was technically interesting
Early-stage technical leadership is a specific kind of problem. You're making architecture decisions with incomplete information, under time pressure, with a team that's learning as you go. The decisions you make in the first few months shape everything that comes after — and you don't always know which decisions matter until much later.
We tripled client visibility and engagement through a combination of technical execution and platform strategy. The technical work mattered. So did understanding what clients actually needed versus what they asked for.
What I learned
Running the technical side of a company is different from being a good engineer. The skills overlap but they're not the same. You have to think about velocity, maintainability, team capability, and client communication simultaneously — and sometimes the right technical decision is the wrong business decision, and you have to know which one to make.
Mentoring 30 interns also taught me something: explaining a concept clearly enough for someone else to use it is the fastest way to find the gaps in your own understanding.