Gupta: Founded Route Mobile at 28 with a one-year deadline to succeed
Rajdip Gupta · From Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile · Aug 16, 2021 · at 31:39
Route Mobile founder Rajdip Gupta discusses his risk calculation and family agreement when launching the bootstrapped telecommunications company.
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“I told her very clearly, you know, we were just two years in our marriage and I said, listen, give me one year time. I told my family also. If I fail, I'm qualified to get a job. You know, so it's not that it is going to impact everything, but I want to try and fail. Okay. It's better to do now rather than later on because that's the age I'm in. I started this company when I was 28, you know, and I said, I want to try and fail rather than never try, and that is what I told my parents also. It's a one year. If I get the success, it's fine. If not, then I will start working.”
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