Rajdip Gupta, founder and CEO of Route Mobile, reflects on the personal sacrifices and intensive international travel required while bootstrapping his telecommunications company.
“I have just calculated the amount of travel I have done in 17 years, you know, like it's almost four years of that time I stayed away from my family.”
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