A 22-year-old was ready to turn down two job offers to start a company.<\/p>\n
I told him he was making a mistake.<\/p>\n
Last Winter, India. Sharp kid, fresh out of college.
\nHis parents are senior government officers.
\nThe safe, respectable life was right in front of him.
\nHe pushed it away.
\nHe wanted to build.<\/p>\n
This should have been my favorite conversation of the day.
\nfifteen minutes in, my stomach sank.<\/p>\n
Every sentence was about the money.
\nHow much he would raise.
\nWhich investors.
\nThe round.<\/p>\n
Not once did he mention a problem. Not a customer.
\nNot one person whose life would be better because his company existed.<\/p>\n
So I said the thing he did not want to hear.
\nYou are not inspired to build.
\nYou are inspired by the headlines.<\/p>\n
We have taught a whole generation to treat the raising funds as the win.
\nThey chase funding before solving a single real thing.
\nThe money becomes the dream instead of the fuel.<\/p>\n
It is like preparing the history subject the day before a science exam.
\nYou feel busy. You feel ready. You are studying the wrong thing entirely.<\/p>\n
So I told him what I would do.
\nGo work somewhere real first.
\nLearn where money actually comes from … a customer, not an investor.
\nThen come back and build.<\/p>\n
He took the advice.<\/p>\n
Today he is at one of those companies he almost walked away from ,
\nLearning the one thing no funding round can teach.<\/p>\n
If the fund raise is the first thing on your mind, you are not ready yet.
\nGo get the scars first.<\/p>\n
If you were in my place waht would you have told him to chase the dream or go get the scars?<\/p>\n
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