If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We're big fans of bootstrapping to exit case studies. Imagine Easy Solutions' Co-founder and Co-CEO Neal Taparia shares his wonderful journey. They scaled the business to over $20 million in revenue without investment and sold to Chegg in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Neal Taparia: I was born in the suburbs of Chicago. My parents were immigrants from India. I'm first-generation in the United States. I did my undergraduate education in Chicago. After that, I settled down in New York where I've been ever since. Sramana Mitra: What led you to the entrepreneurial journey story? Neal Taparia: My entrepreneurial roots took place in Chicago in my high school junior year. This was 2000. In fact, it was the early days of