{"id":60594,"date":"2025-10-05T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/60594\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:22:06","slug":"fired-from-remote-us-job-indian-startup-co-founder-didnt-tell-family-says-universe-rewarded-me-after-50k-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/60594\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired from remote US job, Indian startup co-founder didn’t tell family, says \u2018universe rewarded me\u2019 after $50k revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Indian startup<\/a> founder, who was fired from his remote US job in March, for \u201cfocusing too much\u201d on his venture, has now successfully achieved $50,000 revenue and $10,000 monthly recurring revenue from the business.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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According to Tomar, he was fired from a remote job<\/a> with a US company \u201cexactly six months ago\u201d after he joined the morning meeting at 7 am on March 13 and gave updates on his work. \u201cI observed my TL (team leader) was a bit down. I asked him in the end what’s the reason and there it was \u201cwe have to part ways\u201d,\u201d Tomar recounted.<\/p>\n

\u201cReason simply being I was focusing 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 faster pace but alas the decision was made. I was devastated. I told my friend @ilavanyajain that I got fired<\/a> and he was like \u201care you joking\u201d for like 4-5 times. Then I told my co-founder @WasimShips of the same,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Tomar added that when he was fired, the startup was \u201cdoing $1,000\/mo roughly\u201d and over the next 10-15 days, he was \u201cin a confused state of choosing my dream or looking for a safety net<\/a> again\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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 try to figure this out. Every day I spend more looking for safety, my life would push me towards not taking risk. 1 year more, I will need to pay rent, 1 year more, I will need to think about buying house, 1 year more, I will need to think about marriage,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo I took my call. Let’s go all in! In the worst case, I will find some freelance gigs and make $1,000\/mo from them so life could always keep running. We started on this journey, I started with a small salary<\/a> from going full-time. My co-founder ( @WasimShips ) suggested this and he did not withdraw any finance to help ensure I stay afloat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Tomar shared that his parent still do not know he lost the remote job. \u201cI tell them I spend 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He added that over these six months, the highs and lows have been hard. \u201cFrom months with 0 clients to working with biggest brands<\/a>. The Journey has made me more thick skinned than anything I have ever experienced in life. But with showing up daily, things happened. I got sponsors, I got retainers, I got things happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Tomar, \u201cToday, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowleged that the decision could have taken a bad turn, \u201cbut 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<\/a> watching Sharktank USA finally launched his own dream, helping others build their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are reading till here; This is your sign, to keep going, keep showing 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\u2019d be unsuccessful,\u201d he advised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian startup founder, who was fired from his remote US job in March, for \u201cfocusing too much\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49845,49844,9055,49850,13212,49849,138,49842,336,49847,49851,49846,49848,111,139,69,10333,7493,49843],"class_list":{"0":"post-60594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-000-monthly-recurring-revenue","9":"tag-000-revenue","10":"tag-9055","11":"tag-10000-monthly-recurring-revenue","12":"tag-13212","13":"tag-50000-revenue","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-dreamlaunch","16":"tag-entrepreneurship","17":"tag-entrepreneurship-journey","18":"tag-harshil-tomar","19":"tag-indian-startup-founder","20":"tag-monthly-recurring-revenue","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-remote-job","25":"tag-revenue","26":"tag-startup-founder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}