When I was 27, I sold my first company in New York.
\nRight after signing docs in Jackson Heights. I called my father from the car. My wife beside me, driving home to Long Island.
\nShe snapped a photo.I kept it, and luckily I found it again.
\nI remember it like yesterday: My father answered on the old Nokia phone.
\nThat I have given him during my last visit to india ,
\nHe was on the farm, wind on the line….
\n\u25b6\ufe0f He asked,
\n\u201c\u0c2c\u0c3e\u0c17\u0c3e\u0c28\u0c47 \u0c28\u0c21\u0c41\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c24\u0c41\u0c02\u0c1f\u0c47 \u0c0e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c41\u0c15\u0c41 \u0c05\u0c2e\u0c4d\u0c2e\u0c3e\u0c32\u0c3f?\u201cWhy sell if it\u2019s doing well?\u201d
\nIt was hard to explain,
\nbut I tried in Telugu, our way. Not word for word, but the meaning.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Nanna, in your world you plant, care,
\nand harvest from the same soil your whole life.
\nI grew up in that world. It raised me.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f But my work is a different season, in a different place.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Nanna, I\u2019m a starter.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Like you prepare the seedbed before the monsoon
\nI prepare a new field before a business even exists.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f You pick stones by hand;
\nI clear the unknowns one by one.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f You wait for the first green;
\nI wait for the first customer who says \u201cyes.\u201d
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Those early days are the days where I do my best work.
\na messy whiteboard,
\nthe first hires,
\nthe first invoices,
\nthe first wins.
\nThat\u2019s where my hands matter most.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Then a moment comes: Like your farm the soil is soft, the rows are
\nstraight, the water is steady the crop grows without me.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f At that stage, the company needs a different strength: calm, patient
\nscaling. That\u2019s not my gift.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f My gift is to start, build systems, train people then make space for it
\ngrow.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f So when the company is healthy, the leaders are ready, and customers
\nare safe,
\n\u25b6\ufe0f I sell not to run away, but to hand the field to a steady farmer for the next season.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f \u0c05\u0c26\u0c3f \u0c30\u0c3f\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c15\u0c40 \u0c15\u0c26\u0c3e? (Isn\u2019t that risky?) he asked.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Staying after my part is done is also a risky Nanna.
\nAn idle mind can tinker out of boredom and push a good business the
\nwrong way.
\n\u25b6\ufe0f He Listened and said \u201c\u0c38\u0c30\u0c47. \u0c28\u0c41\u0c35\u0c4d\u0c35\u0c41 \u0c0f\u0c26\u0c3f \u0c1a\u0c47\u0c38\u0c3f\u0c28\u0c3e \u0c30\u0c48\u0c1f\u0c4d\u200c\u0c17\u0c3e \u0c1a\u0c47\u0c2f\u0c3f. \u0c28\u0c3e \u0c15\u0c28\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c3e \u0c28\u0c40\u0c15\u0c47
\n\u0c28\u0c40 \u0c2c\u0c3f\u0c1c\u0c3f\u0c28\u0c46\u0c38\u0c4d \u0c17\u0c41\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c02\u0c1a\u0c3f \u0c0e\u0c15\u0c4d\u0c15\u0c41\u0c35 \u0c24\u0c46\u0c32\u0c41\u0c38\u0c41.\u201d (\u201cOkay. Do whatever you feel is
\nright you know more than me about your business.\u201d)
\nIf \u201cserial entrepreneur\u201d sounds odd, think serial starter.
\nI chose this path knowing my strength.
\nthe first mile, learned that the hard way.
\nEvery time I exit, a few non-negotiables stay the same:
\nI don\u2019t chase trophies; I chase momentum and systems that deliver.
\nNew field….
\nNew map….
\nBut Same values.
\nFor me, serial entrepreneurship: start at zero \u2192 make it work without me \u2192 leave it stronger \u2192 begin again.
\nDeep respect to founders who stay with one business\u2014the world needs your steadiness. I sometimes wish I were wired that way. I\u2019m not, and I\u2019m at peace with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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