Aman Sharma shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Aman, a huge thanks to you for investing the time to share your wisdom with those who are seeking it. We think it’s so important for us to share stories with our neighbors, friends and community because knowledge multiples when we share with each other. Let’s jump in: Have any recent moments made you laugh or feel proud?
I recently received the Distinguished Alumni Award for my contributions to engineering and entrepreneurship. I was the youngest recipient in the history of my university’s award ceremony. However, the most proud moment for me was when my parents received the award on my behalf. They were treated to VIP honors and were honored in front of 100 leaders. As my award speech was played, tears rolled down their eyes.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m the CTO and CoFounder of Lamatic.ai, Leading AI at 84000, and Head of Miami Chapter at The GenAI Collective. Before this, I built three startups: Twimbit, KiEvents, and Atlancey.
My journey began while pursuing CS at BIT Mesra, where I founded Atlancey, developing over 20 digital products and earning government accolades. I joined Upsell.ai as a founding engineer, later becoming an ML researcher at TU Vienna Informatics, where I worked on world-class ML and recommender systems.
From these experiences, I cofounded AI startup KiEvents, which was acquired by Twimbit, making me its cofounder and CTO. I built and scaled Twimbit’s SAAS offerings and the company. I also founded the Mobile-web.dev community and served as a WG member of the AMP OpenSource Project.
After exiting Twimbit in 2022, I joined Entrepreneur First Singapore and met Chuck to cofound Dinnerfy. I actively contribute to open-source communities, give tech talks, share advice on SAAS building, and mentor kids on tech and entrepreneurship.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
I was born into a modest family in the foothills of the Himalayas, near the Indian border. My childhood was challenging, but I found solace in spending as much time as possible with computers at school. At the age of 12, I taught myself to code and was even awarded by my school for creating my first software. This moment was a turning point for me, realizing that computers weren’t just a means of escaping my current circumstances, but also a tool to discover meaning and purpose.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Early childhood taught me a lot about resilience and persistence. But more importantly, it taught me to be brave and risk-seeking. Once I secured a full scholarship to college, I felt invincible and capable of taking any risk life threw my way. I had come from humble beginnings, so what could possibly go wrong? I could never fall below that level. That mindset still holds true today, allowing me to continuously take calculated risks and continue growing.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Whom do you admire for their character, not their power?
I admire Jensen Huang the most. His greatest achievement is that he has created more billionaires under his leadership than any other CEO. This demonstrates his belief in positive-sum games. He could have easily monopolized many technologies, but instead, he chose to share many opportunities with other companies, creating a vibrant and flourishing ecosystem.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What will you regret not doing?
My biggest regret would be not trying enough. I learnt it the hard way that you never run out of money, you run out of ideas. Our biggest issues is getting stuck with one idea and getting busy in just making it true. Instead one should see everything as an hypothesis and running many of them simultanously. Some of those would yield good result and some would give great learnings. It might sound like not being focused and doing a lot of stuff but essentially your focus should be the problem you are solving not how you are solving it. For that you should keep experimenting. This would be biggest regret if I stopped being like this.
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