Kumar: The era of building generational business legacies is completely over
Pawan Raj Kumar · 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods · Sep 14, 2019 · at 16:14
Supa Foods founder Pawan Raj Kumar discusses emotional detachment and knowing when a founder should exit a company.
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“I think the old mentality of building a legacy out of business is anyway over. So one should basically look at business as creating something which is generating some value for the society, and hence you make money out of that. And the minute you are not adding that much value to the business, you have to step out.”
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