Never Believed In 9 5

What this short covers

The exit strategies for startups, emphasizing that exits should benefit both the vision and the team. It highlights how liquidity should reward long-term team members and discusses how founders can retool after major exits.

Transcript

Even when I was working, I never believed in a 9-to-f5. And I think I realized uh like since I don't believe in 9 to5, I need to do something on my own. And uh uh it so happened that I was having lunch with one of my clients and he mentioned about a specific gap in the industry where nobody was trying to solve that problem. And um a light bulb went in my head and I said this is this is the opportunity to solve this problem. And so that's where um uh we started Rahi systems and that was my first entrepreneurial journey. And um it was a lot of fun uh building that

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