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Sarthak Dhawan
Coverage of Sarthak Dhawan in the Nexus archive.
- My startup accidentally spent $30,000 on AI tokens in a month. It was worth it to move fast — but we found a simple fix.
Startup cofounder Sarthak Dhawan accidentally spent $30,000 on AI tokens in a month while prioritizing speed for Turbo AI, but reduced costs by adjusting Claude Code settings. The team views high token usage as a sign of innovation and accepts rising costs if they drive output.
- We're childhood friends who scaled our startup to $13M by age 21. Dropping out of college was the right move — if anything, we did it too late.
Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, childhood friends and AI startup founders, generated over $13 million in revenue by age 21 after dropping out of Northwestern University and Duke, respectively. Their AI learning tool app, launched in 2024, grew to $500,000 monthly revenue by March 2025, prompting them to go full-time with the venture.