Mobile workforces are becoming a fixture of the modern economy, offering companies and employees great flexibility and cost-saving benefits—but it can create a fractured and disconnected workplace culture.

Gaurav Bhattacharya felt this way when he worked at a large tech company in New York—so he left and founded InvolveSoft, which offers companies an “Instagram-like” platform to bring workers together.

On this edition of UpTech Report, we talk with Gaurav about the journey that brought him from selling pencils door to door, to founding a startup straight out of high school, and finally to his current position as the CEO of InvolveSoft, where he hopes to build his company into more than just a workplace, but a thriving community.