Dreams die hard.
There is a strange freedom from not knowing life from death.
I am not looking for any redemptions, but a man can find some kind of solace in the fact that he did well by the people who loved and trusted him, also those who are fruits of his nut.
I have had ups and downs, more downs but I guess that is how an average human life is and is true of success as well. The probability of success is always low and that is what makes success hard, also interesting, and extremely rewarding.
As long as I am chasing my dreams without jeopardizing lives and careers of others, I feel clean about it, more importantly I find building products, rather rewarding.
How entrepreneurs really succeed.
I will add the document, an essay by Malcolm Gladwell about entrepreneurship, risk, and success. It was interesting and revelatory on personal level. I had always felt that building business or for that matter a software business does not require as much risk as it usually purported to be. It does require a lot of diligence and I think most importantly a business plan.
“It takes a village to raise a child“
- – African Proverb
Where do co-founders come from?
Founders are people who have children out of wedlock, and they usually need a spouse to be the other guardian. This is probably my understanding of it. You will need to share the guardianship in lieu of school fee and diapers.
In other words, a good product is akin to a bastard child and then the village rallies to raise the child.
Some bastard children do well; Leonardo da Vinci was one.
The Year that Was at Machine Dalal
As we connect people and professionals from places yonder, there is an innate joy in that achievement. The challenge has always been find something that’s different enough to cut through, but not so different that it becomes a fad, or doesn’t scale, and as we see real engagement rising; you get that faint of whiff of success.
Something to be mindful of, and not get delusional about.