Background
Sethi grew up in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento, California.
Sethi grew up in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento, California.
Sethi began classes at in 2005, majoring in science, technology and society under Bachelor of Journalism Fogg. He studied abroad in Florence, Italy, where he read The 4-Hour Workweek, which inspired him to take a two-year leave from his classes in 2008. In 2009, author Tim Ferriss held a contest calling for videos of applicants living a "4-hour workweek", which Sethi entered and won.
Following the popularity of his video-entry, Sethi created, a blog on productivity and travel-hacking.
He used the award money from the contest to start his non-governmental organization, SaveThem.net.
He authored the internationally best-selling book and textbook Game Programming for Teens at sixteen years old. Sethi is the chairman and chief executive officer of In 2011, Sethi founded SaveThem.net, a non-governmental organization focused on providing public schools in Rajasthan with electricity and internet connectivity. Sethi launched Pavlok in July 2013.
Early years He began using computers and writing software in middle school, and started "StandardDesign", a web design company, when he was twelve years old.
He tutored other students in programming and video game design, and wrote his first book, Game Programming for Teens, at the age of fourteen. His book went on to become an international best-seller and a textbook in Poland.
At sixteen years old, he held monthly segments on video game programming on TechTV. College years In 2010, Sethi launched, a blog on self-improvement and travelling. Authoring articles and e-books led Sethi to take a 2-year absence from Stanford to focus on travelling and writing.
In 2012, was featured on New York Daily News, Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, Huffington Post, and other news outlets when Sethi hired a woman off of Craigslist to slap him across the face whenever he was distracted from his work.
The viral success of Sethi"s experience with operant conditioning led him to launch Behavioral Technology Group in July 2013. Pavlok In July 2014, Behavioral Technology Group created its first product, Pavlok. Parallel to the interests of Sethi"s, Pavlok is a wearable device that modifies behavior through operant conditioning, using audio and haptic feedback.
Users are able to break habits and addictions through courses similar to aversion therapy, and may establish new routines by pairing behaviors with positive stimuli.
After having raised funds through angel investment, Sethi launched a fundraising campaign for Pavlok on Indiegogo. He used Bolt, a business incubator, for hardware production, before moving into Pavlok"s WeWork office in October 2014.
Soon after, Pavlok was accepted into the 2015 MassChallenge startup accelerator program Pavlok has raised funds from Maneesh"s contacts in the blogging world including Steve Kamb, Matt Kepnes, Ramit Sethi, John Romaniello, Dave Asprey and more.