Everyone I studied with went to engineering college. I went to work.<\/p>\n
Eighteen years old, a diploma in computer engineering, and no money in the family for the next step. So I took a job paying Rs 1800 a month.<\/p>\n
That was supposed to be the end of it.<\/p>\n
Fourteen years later, two companies running, money no longer the question.
\nDaughter in first grade.
\nSon in preschool.
\nAnd a man with nothing left to prove went back to sit in a classroom.<\/p>\n
Harvard Business School. <\/p>\n
People assumed strategy. Network, credibility, positioning for whatever came next.<\/p>\n
It was none of that. It was an eighteen year old who never got to finish.<\/p>\n
Success does not close that.
\nNot revenue, not an exit, not a magazine cover.
\nThose were answers to a question nobody had asked me.<\/p>\n
What I did not expect was the room.
\nPeople who had built real things, who said the true thing out loud, and who are still in my life more than a decade later.<\/p>\n
Walked in for a certificate. Walked out with a community.<\/p>\n
The unfinished thing got me through the door. It was never what kept me there.<\/p>\n
Do you go back and finish what got away, or does building something bigger make it irrelevant?<\/p>\n
Krishna Lakamsani | Building A Foundery | We build cash-positive companies, not valuations | I write at the intersection of AI, capital, and the future of human work: lessons, reflections, and honest takes from the founder-investor seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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