This was my iPay Dukanline team. Every one of them. When we started in 2013.
Oracle sent 30,000 termination emails on March 31.<\/p>\n
The math is simple.
Every month Oracle paid salaries.
Now that same money pays for AI data centers.
People out. Servers in.
Same bill. Different future.<\/p>\n
I understand that decision.
I’ve been there.<\/p>\n
In 2019, when I wound down Dukanline, I had to let go of people who joined me on day one.<\/p>\n
Every rupee in that company was mine.
No external investors.
No board to share the blame with.
Just millions of my own money. Gone.<\/p>\n
And still… I had to walk in and tell people their jobs were over.<\/p>\n
The easy thing would have been an email.
Keep distance. Make it clean. Move on.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t do that.<\/p>\n
I sat with each of them.
Told them exactly what had happened financially.
No spin. No corporate language.
Just the truth.<\/p>\n
Then I gave every one of them two months salary.<\/p>\n
I had just lost millions of my own money.
And my first instinct was still \u2014
how do I give them enough time to land safely.<\/p>\n
Years later those same people still call.<\/p>\n
Not for jobs. Not for favors.<\/p>\n
To wish me happy birthday.<\/p>\n
But there is a difference between cutting costs and abandoning people.<\/p>\n
Every founder will face this moment one day.
Gods grace that you never have to.
But if that day comes ….<\/p>\n
Show up.<\/p>\n
How you send off your people is more important than.. how you onboard them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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