Tomar dropped out of his college in India and moved to Silicon Valley to work with an online platform. He had earlier bagged Mozilla WebFWD fellowship for his work related to improving learning online. Currently Tomar is working on a collaborative learning platform.
Tomer says, his mother took him to a summer coding camp, when he was hardly eight years old.
“I also turned out to be pretty good at it and had a small article about me in the local newspapers when I was 8,” says Tomer, who was hailed as an “exceptional hacker,” by the Thiel foundation.
Tomer studied in boarding schools and in Class 10, he scored 98 per cent marks, studying at Wynberg Allen School.
He completed Class 12 from DPS R K Puram and then joined an engineering college in Goa, but dropped out after a month, in September last year.
“It was probably the most rewarding (and the most frightening) decision of my life and I don't regret it at all,” he says.
Tomer says, spending four years of his life getting a degree was useless compared to working on things which he was passionate about.
Tomer opted to become an entrepreneur in technology.
“The worst case scenario would have been that I failed, learned quite a bit and went back to college,” he said. After dropping out, he flew to the bay area where he met like minded people.
“Dropping out is definitely a bit more acceptable here (US) exponentially more so in the Silicon Valley where it's even encouraged to some extent,” he says.
In the US, he adds, that many schools have options to take a gap year or rejoining college within a few years.
Tomer plans to prototype his idea, hire a team and raise funds to support his venture.
