About

Who

Around 2011 I found XDA Developers. I flashed custom ROMs and kernels onto a Sony Ericsson Xperia until it ran an iOS-style build, then a Windows-Phone-style OS. The phone shipped with neither. If it can be flashed, it can be changed.

Around 2013, in my first years of engineering college, my laptop mined Litecoin between lectures. It was my first lesson in cost per unit: electricity against coin.

Around 2016 I built a bare-bones app for one apartment building: residents, the gate, notices. It was small, and people used it.

In 2016 I was a research intern at the Iron Bird facility of Hindustan Aeronautics' Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC). I built the GUI for the TEJAS light combat aircraft training interface in MATLAB. On an aircraft, "it works" is not an opinion.

AIESEC taught me to sell. In 2015, as a volunteer in business development, I asked strangers for things for the first time. In 2017 I moved to Boston for engineering management at Northeastern. I built models for a large US insurer, then worked at iRobot, Gnowbe and Brown Brothers Harriman on analytics, dashboards and the plumbing of measurement.

Then I did it to companies. I co-founded CaterForce, a catering marketplace, and sold it. I was the first product hire at Precize, a consumer fintech that went from 0 to 500,000 users. I ran growth products at 2070 Health, a healthtech studio, and product and growth at a US software company. Eight years of pulling growth out of systems other people built.

Since fall 2026 I have been building alone in Stockholm: the web app, the worker, the database. Agents read, count and draft; a person signs every piece. This log is the part of that work I can show.

I am Gaurav Raj, and 7 is my number.

Who moves me

Cristiano Ronaldo. Hard work. He was never the only gifted one. He was the one still training when the others had gone home. The 7 in iamgr7 was his number first.

Albert Einstein. Perseverance. Eight years on one idea, wrong in public more than once, and he kept going until the universe agreed with him.

Steve Jobs. The misfit. He started Apple in a garage, and three decades later changed how we hold a phone. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

None of them waited to be ready. That is the part I try to live by.

The line

1. 2026-09Started building alone. Stockholm. The code, the worker, the database.
2. Reworked.ai A US B2B2C software company, remote. 2024-08 to 2026-09.
3. 2025-02Head of product and growth
4. 2024-08Founding product and growth The first product and growth hire.
5. 2070 Health A healthtech studio, Bengaluru. 2023-09 to 2024-08.
6. 2024-02Senior growth product manager
7. 2023-09Growth product manager
8. Precize A consumer fintech. 0 to 500,000 users. 2021-11 to 2023-08.
9. 2022-03Head of product
10. 2021-11Founding product manager The first product hire.
11. 2021-02Co-founder of CaterForce, a catering marketplace, Bengaluru. Bootstrapped to $120K revenue. Sold it, and advised through the exit to 2021-12.
12. 2020-07Digital architecture consultant at Brown Brothers Harriman, Boston. Analytics architecture, a CMS migration. Until 2021-02.
13. 2019-06Senior manager, marketing strategy at Gnowbe, a microlearning company, Singapore.
14. 2018-07Co-op at iRobot, Boston. CRM, marketing and global customer care.
15. 2018-03The XN project at Northeastern. Actuarial machine learning and insurance pricing models.
16. 2017M.S., Engineering/Industrial Management Northeastern University, Boston. To 2019.
17. 2016Research intern Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Iron Bird facility, ARDC, Bengaluru. Built the GUI for the TEJAS light combat aircraft training interface, in MATLAB.
18. around 2016An apartment-community app for one building. Bare bones. Used.
19. 2015AIESEC, India. Marketing and business development. My first job.
20. 2013B.E., Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering BNM Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. To 2017.
21. around 2013Mined Litecoin on a laptop between lectures.
22. around 2011XDA Developers. Three operating systems on one Sony Ericsson Xperia. The log starts here.

How this log is kept

Every number has a date. If something changes later, I add a dated note to the entry instead of rewriting it, so the original text stays.

Colophon

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