Here’s the story of how I met Neel:
When I first transferred to Columbia (Fall 2024) I went up to every single person that I thought looked smart and asked them if they wanted to be my co-founder.
I got tons of weird looks, “no’s”, and people telling me they weren’t interested.
Neel was one of them.
It was only after meeting again at a party that we started working together on small side projects (notetaking app, AI agent for liquor distributors etc) and realized we worked surprisingly well together.
Eventually, we both decided that working a corporate job wasn’t for us and went all-in on startups.
We launched Interview Coder (AI for cheating on technical interviews), farmed a ton of big-tech offers to go viral, and hit $1M ARR in 36 days.
After that, we decided to build something much bigger.
That’s when Cluely was born – an undetectable desktop assistant that feeds you answers in real time.
It’s been under 2 months, and we already broke $5M in revenue and are on pace to become the fastest company to ever hit $100M ARR.
Shoutout Neel 🫡
P.S. I partly made this post because he’s desperately single. If you’re interested, Neel’s DMs are open…
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