Founders should never start a company with a backup plan
Pravin Agarwala · Inside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder, BetterPlace | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast · Apr 25, 2021 · at 40:38
Pravin Agarwala, co-founder and CEO of BetterPlace, explains why he believes entrepreneurs must commit completely without preparing fallback options.
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“I also believe that nobody should come with a plan B in mind, right? When you are coming with a plan B, you are not fully into it. That basically already in your mind, you have a thought that it will fail, and if this fails, I will go back, and so on, so forth.”
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