In the past six years I’ve co-founded a couple companies in India. Collectively, as of this writing, they employ about 12 people. According to Copilot 50% of companies fail by year five, so while it’d probably be a bit much to call my entrepreneurial attempts “successful” they at the very least haven’t yet been “failures”.

I’m writing this blog to document my experiences and perspectives. Writing, I’ve found, helps me reflect, learn, and remember. I like to think of myself as a writer which, somewhat ironically, has meant that I haven’t published much because I keep wanting to further polish and perfect my words. But in the age of AI, it’s a lot easier to write and research and so it’s time to put up something like this.

You’ll often find me analyzing and criticizing business leaders who are global legends. It’s laughable to suggest that I am in any way comparable to them. To be clear, even in my idle imaginations I don’t think of them as peers. Rather I’ll write about them because they’ll often be the most salient business examples, and the ones that a broad readership would be familiar with.

The views I express are my own. My team would disagree with many of the things I write.

Anyone reading this blog will probably end up with a more positive image of me as a businessperson than what my reality is. I’ll be talking about ideals and theories, and the truth is I don’t always live up to them. I imagine that colleagues reading these posts, for example, will look at what I’ve written and think about times I unjustly didn’t follow my own rhetoric.

I’m going to get a lot of things wrong. As the philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan wrote of the Ashoka Chakra that adorns the logo of this blog, “The wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change”. One of the things that excites me about this blog is the opportunity to see the evolution of my own thinking and perspectives. My companies have pivoted at least four times in the past six years, and I expect more pivots to come.  

These are, after all, experiments.