Business and life are not separate things.
The way you build your company is the way you live your life. One reflects the other.
चन्द्र प्रकाश
Chandra Prakash
Tiwari
My name means moonlight.
The sun burns. The moon borrows its light and gives it away — soft enough to look at, steady enough to guide by, and it shows up in the dark, when people actually need it. That's the kind of light I'm trying to be.
The name
चन्द्र प्रकाश — the light of the moon
My parents gave me that name long before anyone knew who I'd turn out to be. I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
The sun is magnificent and it is also exhausting. It burns, it demands the whole sky, and while it's out you can't really see anything else. A lot of founders are trying to be the sun. I've tried it. It costs more than it gives.
The moon works differently. It doesn't generate anything — it takes light that isn't its own and passes it on. It's gentle enough that you can look straight at it. It turns up at night, which is exactly when people need something to walk by. And it moves entire oceans without ever touching them.
I don't want to be the sun. I'd rather be the other kind of light — borrowed, reflected, given away. Enough for someone to find their way home by.
Everything on this page is an attempt at that. The company, the free course, the students I want to teach, the trees, the kirtans. Just light, passed along.
2016
Building since
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People taught to code
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Remote teammates
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Students I want to reach
कनौर, कटनी → जबलपुर → इंदौर
Who I am
Building since I was a kid in a small village
I grew up in Kanour, a village in Katni, Madhya Pradesh. School was a CBSE private school in the nearby town of Barhi. In 2015 I moved to Jabalpur for college — that's where I lived in a hostel and started my first business with my savings and a Bajaj Discover motorcycle. I've been building ever since. Not always successfully. But always genuinely.
I run a remote tech team. I'm building a SaaS product. I make sure I get enough sleep, learn something new every day, and stay focused on seeking the truth — not overcomplicating things.
Most people I meet think I'm 22. I'm almost 31. I've stopped explaining.
What drives me is simple: I want to build things that actually help people. Not products that only look good on a pitch deck. Real things. For real people.
And somewhere alongside all of that — I'm trying to understand who I am. Not as a founder. As a human being.
What I believe
A few things I hold onto
Most founders build fast, not right.
Speed without clarity is just organised chaos. I've been there. I know what it costs.
Fulfilment is not a reward for success.
It has to be part of the journey itself. A founder who isn't fulfilled is just a very busy, very stressed person.
Relationships matter more than reach.
I'd rather have ten real conversations than ten thousand followers who don't know me.
The best thing you can build is trust.
With your team. With your clients. With yourself. Everything else follows.
What I do
Where my time goes
Techcream
IT Agency · Co-founder
I co-founded Techcream with my college friend Aditya. We're a 100% remote team of 10 people building software and SaaS products for businesses around the world. Four years in, still going strong.
GrowthAsist
LinkedIn Growth System
My current focus. A system that helps founders and creators grow on LinkedIn without spending hours every day figuring out what to post. Still early. Very real.
The Fulfilled Founder
Newsletter
A space for founders who want calm, sustainable growth — in their business and in their life. Not hustle culture. Not motivational quotes. Just honest thinking about building something without losing yourself.
Free for founders
Learn how to think about LinkedIn — the right way
Most founders treat LinkedIn like a billboard. It isn't — it's a conversation. I put together a free course inside the GrowthAsist Academy that teaches you exactly how to think about LinkedIn growth: positioning, content strategy, and what actually drives results. No fluff.
My journey
From a sliver to a full moon
Every chapter added a little more light. None of it arrived all at once.
2016
The tiffin startup
Living in a hostel in Jabalpur, the tiffin food was oily and felt unhygienic half the time. I thought — what if I connected housewives who wanted extra income with students who wanted home-cooked food? I started it with my savings, scaled to 10 deliveries a day on my Bajaj Discover, went door to door talking to sellers and students. It didn't work. But I learned what it actually feels like to go out and sell something.
2017
Learning to code
I taught myself web development and got my first client outside India for $10 — a simple static website. That $10 was one of the most important moments of my life. I realised the world was bigger than Jabalpur.
2018–19
First proper work
Freelanced on the side while working a job. Kept charging more. Kept learning. Got a big break from a marketing company and understood what real value delivery looks like.
2020
Going all in
Lockdown happened. I quit my job, started Coffee to Business alone, got my first project, delivered it, then got another. Invited my friend Aditya to join as co-founder. We figured it out together.
2022–23
Building Techcream
Grew from zero to good revenue in two years. Built a remote team. Served clients across the world. Did annual retreats — Nepal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa. Learned that managing a team and managing yourself are equally hard.
2022–24
Angel investing, and the lessons it cost
Alongside Techcream I put real money into friends' startups — a local bus and daily-commute business, a cafe and OTT venture, a retail clothing brand, plus some local lending and trading bets. Some of it taught me how businesses outside software actually work. A lot of it I'd do differently now. It's part of the journey, not a footnote.
2024–25
The product question
AI changed everything. Clients started building their own products. I realised I'd spent years building software for others but never seriously built a product for myself. That scared me. Then it motivated me.
Now
Building for myself
Moved to Indore. Experimenting every day. Building GrowthAsist. Learning marketing, distribution, and what it means to sell something I actually created. The hardest chapter yet. Probably the most important one.
Light, given away
Initiatives beyond the business
Business is how I pay the bills. This is how I stay grounded. The moon doesn't keep its light — these are my attempts at passing some of it on.
DoneIn progressPlanned
Done· 2020
Coffee to Business — free coding program
During the 2020 lockdown I opened a free program and personally taught ~50 people how to code and build on the internet. Most of those who completed it landed full-time jobs. One of the most rewarding things I've ever done.
Done· 2023–now
Sri Hit Kripa — a space to learn and grow
A space for people with no job, no plan, or nothing to do right now. Free career guidance, resources and honest help — no fee, no application. The door is open.
Read the full storyIn progress· 2024–now
YouTube — teaching AI & marketing
The mission: help a million founders understand AI, implement it, market well, build a product, sell it, and build a good life. All of it free, on the channel.
Read the full storyIn progress· Ongoing
Tree plantation — rooting the village
I tried to organise a community tree plantation drive in my village but didn't have enough people behind it at the time. So I planted trees on my own. I'll keep doing this — quietly, consistently, every year.
In progress· Ongoing
Devotional practice & the Gausana
Kirtans, morning rituals, and small gatherings where we have real conversations about life, values and meaning. My way of keeping the roots alive. It also includes work towards building a Gausana — a cow care centre — in the village.
Planned· From Sept 2026
Teaching 10,000 students about AI
My biggest one. Going into government schools to teach 10,000 students about AI, computers and building a career — in Hindi, in person, for free. Every session recorded and shared.
Read the full storyThese aren't polished programmes with decks and KPIs. They're things I feel I need to do. Some worked, some are still trying to, and some haven't started yet. If any of this resonates — I'd love to work on it together.
Beyond work
What I do when I'm not building
Founder is not the only thing I am. These are the things that keep me whole.
Music, bhajans & instruments
Singing, playing instruments, sitting in on bhajans. The thing that has nothing to do with building — and is exactly why I need it.
Writing code, just for myself
Not every line I write is for a client or a product. Some of it is just me figuring something out because I'm curious.
Deep tech & innovation
I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about where technology is actually headed — not just what's trending this week.
Spiritual conversations
Going deeper into questions about life, meaning, and who I'm becoming. Long conversations on this are some of my favourites.
Who I want to meet
If you're building something, I want to know
Not just tech founders. Anyone who has decided to take responsibility for creating something that helps other people. A product, a service, a community, a small business — even just an idea you're still working up the courage to start.
Especially if you're asking the questions beyond the business ones. What kind of life am I building? Am I taking care of the people around me? Am I becoming the person I want to be while doing all of this?
Let's just talk. No pitch. No agenda.
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