Tushar was born & raised in India to a stay-at-home mom and a father who was an engineer working for the government. After high school, Tushar got his computer science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. During his time in college, he became fascinated with machine learning, so he started asking around his school to see if anyone was offering research-based internships in machine learning. He got connected to a professor in Italy that was offering an internship. After a while in Italy, his professor suggested he go to the U.S. and work for her twin sister who was also a professor at the University of Minnesota to pursue his PhD. That's how Tushar landed in the U.S.
He then went on to move to the pacific northwest to work for Microsoft. Eventually, he became Chief of Staff before leaving to go back and get an MBA from Northwestern. One of his classmates and good friends, Steve Lane, suggested they start a business around helping homeowners save energy in their homes. They conducted some research and realized that the reason people don’t make investments to save energy in their homes is because it takes too long to recoup the energy upgrades. They did find another problem though, and that problem would be the beginning of Flyhomes. The typical homebuyer doesn’t have much transparency and ease with buying a home, so Flyhomes gives homebuyers more transparency and helps people buy homes much more easily through machine learning and technology.
Today, Flyhomes has over 200 employees and has raised over $140 million to disrupt the home-buying process.