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October 1990
👶 Neil is born in Michigan. Hello world!
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December 1990
✈️ Neil moves to California.
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August 1994
👶 Neil's sister, Nandini, is born.
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February 1995
💩 Neil splatters poop on his walls while swinging a garbage bag with a dirty diaper. This is his first physics lesson.
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December 1997
🏠 Neil moves to a new home on Christmas. It's 100% less shitty than the last one.
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July 1998
🎬 Neil directs his first action movie using a VHS camcorder and PowerMac 8500.
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March 1999
🕶 The Matrix is released. Neil has to clarify his name isn't Neo for the rest of the decade.
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June 1999
🔥 Neil's internet connection is upgraded from dial-up to 6mbps DSL. He starts tinkering with web development. And Napster.
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2000's
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October 2000
🎂 Neil turns 10 as the dot-com bubble collapses. It's a new millennium.
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August 2002
🎓 Neil starts middle school.
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August 2002
🧮 Neil gets a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition calculator that he uses to program games in BASIC during class.
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September 2002
🏹 Neil earns his Arrow of Light, graduating from a Cub Scout to Boy Scout.
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July 2004
👨💻 Neil launches WebScope.tv, a video sharing platform for his friends because YouTube doesn't exist yet.
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August 2004
🎓 Neil starts high school.
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December 2005
👨💻 Neil cofounds Amalgam, an online literary magazine, and builds a NoSQL CMS to power it.
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September 2006
👨💻 Neil cofounds Metamorphium Design, a profitable web design business.
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May 2007
👨💻 Neil joins a sports social network as developer #1. He works out of a literal garage in Silicon Valley.
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August 2007
📱 Neil gets the first iPhone. People make fun of him for spending $600 on a phone.
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August 2008
✈️ Neil moves to Chicago.
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November 2009
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2010's
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June 2010
✈️ Neil studies abroad in Paris.
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October 2010
🎂 Neil turns 20 amidst the Great Recession.
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October 2011
🏆 Neil becomes a ThinkChicago Fellow.
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December 2011
💻 Neil works with Haiti's Ministry of Education, OLPC, and IIT to deploy solar panels, laptops, and servers pre-loaded with Wikipedia in a Haitian school.
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May 2012
🎓 Neil graduates from Illinois Institute of Technology with degrees in Computer Science & Psychology, a minor in Entrepreneurship, and a specialization in Artificial Intelligence.
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June 2012
👨💻 Neil cofounds Tabule, a smart student planner powered by AI.
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July 2012
🎙 Neil does a press conference with Rahm Emanuel about Tabule and Chicago tech. Emanuel says "Chicago needs more Neils." Neil agrees for exactly 3 years.
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June 2013
👨💻 Tabule is acqui-hired by Eligo, where Neil builds tools to automate repetitive processes.
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August 2014
👨💻 Neil builds the Flocks, an IoT art installation that reacts to its environment and Twitter. Cisco displays two at their Internet of Things conference.
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December 2014
👨💻 Neil works with Eren Bali to prototype Maven, the operating system for your business.
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May 2015
👨💻 Neil joins Instructure to build educational software again.
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July 2015
🤕 Neil gets hit by a bicyclist named Neil G. He wakes up in the hospital with 14 stitches on his face but no new superpowers.
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November 2015
🏠 Neil buys his first home in South Loop.
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January 2018
🤖 Neil builds an AI to manage his home for him.
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September 2018
🛠 Neil turns his second bedroom into a prototyping lab with four 3D printers and a soldering bench.
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January 2019
🏆 Neil receives a grant from Y Combinator to keep building his smart home tech.
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April 2019
👨💻 Neil founds Hiome to change how we use our homes.
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2020's
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May 2020
🦠 Neil launches Research Explained to make visual summaries of COVID-19 research accessible to anyone.
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August 2020
👨💻 Neil joins Guilded to build the community platform for gamers.
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October 2020
🎂 Neil turns 30 in lockdown from a global pandemic.
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April 2021
🏠 Neil moves to a new home in Streeterville.
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May 2021
🐶 Neil's sister adopts Wally, fulfilling a life-long Gupta sibling dream and granting him unlimited dog time with none of the work.
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October 2022
🏃♂️ Neil runs his first 10k race.
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April 2024
✈️ Neil becomes homeless a digital nomad, selling his home and most his things.
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Today