About Us

Founder's Story

When I joined college back in 2005 as an electrical engineering freshman, the first CPEG class had around 100 students and it was pretty exciting to think that we were all on our way to becoming engineers. Fast forward to graduation 4 years later and there were only 18 that had the blue & gold tassles. What happened??!! The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn't that those who abandoned ship were dumber than me or didn't have a good work ethic. In fact it was something I knew only too well.

During my engineering education days, I was able to deal with the tough courses and the unsympathetic professors but what I couldn't deal with at times, was the sense of loneliness. I felt like an outsider looking in, where I had so many questions about what I was learning, where my non engineering friends couldn't understand what I was going through & the feeling that no one in the program could care less whether I stuck through engineering or not.

I decided to aggressively fight this depressing state of mind by persistently nagging my smart classmates to hang out with me, go to all the TA sessions, go to as many of the professor's office hours & seek out personal tutorial help. Not only did I do better in class but more importantly, I felt a real connection with my academic community.

That's when I started wondering that what if we could take this whole social academic experience online. How awesome would it be that the night before an exam, no matter where you are or how late you're studying, you could always ask a question and have your classmate or a tutor answer it. Professors with already full inboxes, who suck at responding a lot of times coz of students asking the same questions over and over again, can now find relief. The idea behind this is that even though we are competitors & we are not best friends with all our classmates, we are all in this together so why not connect, help & motivate each other.

Nfoshare was born out of that need. So that no college student should ever feel like they are alone on this academic journey and that's important.

Its so important because 7 in 10 college students feel stressed out about their studies. Across the country, students are dropping out in droves from science, math and engineering majors. Twenty years from now, there will be 123 million highly skilled and highly qualified jobs available but at this rate, America will only be able to fill 50 million of them. We cannot afford this internal brain drain.

We need students to get pumped up about learning. At Nfoshare, we believe studying should be fun, studying should be social and learning should continue even after class is over.

Sincerely,
Nikhil Paul
CEO/Founder of Nfoshare