Q And people will more align with your story, Khalid, if they can understand how or what you gave up, they might be thinking, oh, I'm in a safe Corporate job right now. Maybe I could like give something up and go for it. What salary did you give up in?
A Uh, so I was making close to a hundred K at that point. Uh, I was traveling regularly. I was a top software architect. Uh, I would, you know, consider top 50 software architects at that point, uh, in North America consulting actually worldwide with some of the top fortune, 500 companies. Uh, I think the billing rate, the company that was billing me, I was about 2500 dollars, uh, you know, on daily basis. Uh, so, you know, um, really, and, and that's, I tell you the first nine months I struggled and there were moments where we really like, you know, myself, I mean, your first nine months doing, doing your own thing or. Doing my own thing, you know, where we said like, you know, was this the right decision? You know, by the way, who is we, uh, myself and my wife, who is my partner as well. Um, so we had lots of moments where we, you know, had to really ask ourselves, like, is this the right decision? You know, leaving like, you know, the, the corporate It's a job with a comfortable, uh, end of month salary into starting our own thing. Um, looking back at it right now, I tell you, it's the most amazing decision that we've made.
AI assessment note: “so I was making close to a hundred K at that point.”