Delegate & Conquer Stop Doing Everything Yourself!

Ritik Malhotra, a repeat technical founder with two successful exits, shares his experiences navigating the challenges of startup life, including resilience.

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Ritik Malhotra, a repeat technical founder with two successful exits, shares his experiences navigating the challenges of startup life, including resilience through numerous investor rejections. The discussion covers topics like delegating, fundraising, M&A strategy, and building a strong team.

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Let's say you're able to stop that younger self and you give that younger self one piece of advice right there. What would that be and why given what you know now about launching a business? >> To that version of myself I would try my hardest to instill in this one thing that I'd heard from actually the founder of Brex and I think um the the the the phrase was uh you get no extra points for doing things yourself so you might as well get all the help that you can along the way. And I think I stand by that very deeply today because I think that was a very the I was the exact opposite back then. I thought you know, I need to do everything myself. I need to figure things out and you know, go heads down, learn all these things. And ultimately, no one is keeping track of that. No one keeps track of that scoreboard. But they do see what you're able to build and I think in many things in

life, but especially company building uh you there is no such thing as having being the sole author. You're effectively trying to find people around you to co-author the thing that you put out. And and so being intentional about that and telling your telling that version of myself it's okay, you do not need to do everything yourself, no one is keeping track of this actually probably would have been the most impactful thing uh for me at that time. So Rita, for the people that are listening that would love to reach out and say hi, what is the best way for them to do so?

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