I am flying to Bangalore - No more code words!

I am flying to Bangalore. I have been doing it three or four times a year. What is new? Only this time, I don't know when I am returning home. 

I am thinking of starting up. In fact, I have been thinking of starting up for more than a decade now. My good old roommates would know that I was always interested in making an impact and building a business. I did a few business stints while I was in college. 2016 to this day, has been a build-up to making a great one. I hope so 🤞.

And I feel this is the time. The next step from here - having a crack at building a billion dollar Company. Every calculation I have been running leaves me with only one possible path at this junction of life. Startup!

I have been blessed to be in tech. If I crack a good product and have revenue streams, it is easier to build a venture-backed business in this space, and scale really fast. And what better place than Bangalore? I can't afford SF 😅.

I have some money in the bank to pay myself a minimum salary (monthly expenses) and some for operating costs and emergencies. I have unlimited energy. You can be on 5 coffees and 3 red-bulls, and I will still beat you in the second continuous marathon, just on water. I have convinced my parents not to rush me into marriage (typical Nepali/Gorkhali parents). I have all the time on that front as well. The point is, this is the time.  

I am flying to Bangalore this Sunday, October 20, 2024, to explore the next phase. I don't know where it will lead me, but I know where I want it to lead me. I don't know if I will be broke by next year, but I know I will be more than fine.  

I have a fascination with hardship and challenges. I am romanticizing it already. It is a Himalayan peak climb, Mount Everest. But imagine the peak being unique to the climber & the climber doesn't get Sherpas.

I love the journey, or rather, I love myself enough to endure any journey; I love the peak. And the peak is the true love. 

Love makes it worthwhile.