So after building my venture for over six years, in January,22 I decided to move on and in Sept,22 I joined an early stage startup led by ex-CXO of a small vertical of Indian IT giant.
i joined as early employee to lead product, but over time I have been moved across multiple things without my consent, but I continued doing in and out across as pre-sales, customer success and blah blah. Over the last 1 and half year, the company just got few clients with around total revenue of 15 Lakhs annual.
On the sides, I started building my venture as well and built a small team of 4 people, launcjed the product and is doing good in terms of revenue. With the limited time I am able to give after spending 10+ hours doing nothing at my job, at my startup we have scaled well and are doong decent enough monthly revenue of around 6.5 Lakhs and are growing as well.
Now, at the place where I work, few people including founder come and give me some gyaan but I don’t like it. Not because I don’t want to learns but because I feel these gyaans are one-sides and comes with limited view.
IRL, I have executed better than what they are doing with a better capital efficiency and with very small team. I don’t like what they say. Am I getting arrigant or am I being selective to who do I want to learn from and what?
I don’t want to turn arrogant and someone who miss staying grounded. In my venture I listen to my team, my people, my users and stay as much humble as possible, but when it come to my job place, I don’t like them.
PS: I am not leaving the job because for the next 2-3 months, I don’t want to burden my company with my salary expense and also my marriage is scheduled so don’t want to eat my savings.
At least from the way you’ve worded this, you don’t strike to me as somebody who’s being arrogant and jumping ship
Feels like you’ve done a very fair assessment of both things
That said, on what you’re building on your own - try to build comfort on it’s viability over 3-5 years, whether it’s something you’re excited by. Be true to yourself about the metrics of both businesses
It’s a sort of business ikigai - What you’re passionate about x what you can do the best in the world x what drives your economic engine
What he said Plus If you are aware that you "might become" arrogant then you are doing better than most. best of luck for the startup. and yeah, advise you to stick nd grow a thick skin for your current job. helps with the startup too.
I am spending decent amount of time on understanding the viability of my business. I have built plans, roadmap and and finetuning them continuously. I am confident of what I want to build and also excited about it.
I do deliveries to my users daily post office hours. ✨
Coming to where I work, I don’t want to judge them on business, not my place. I am not holding esop or anything as well.
I just want to survive over here for some time till I decide to go full time on my venture. Over that period, I don’t want to myself to change as rude or arrogant, as I continuously try to disregard what they say. I don’t disregard for their business, I disregard it for myself. I be dumb when it comes to doing anything for their business and I try to not be smart person in room.
I am worried that with this approach of disregarding inputs, will it bring long term change in me and impact me in future.
Bruh, go to a founder's community or r/venturecapital subreddit you will get genuine feedback from experienced founders. Thoda young hu par gyaan to baat sakta hu. What you're experiencing is called as guilt trip from people with limited thinking. Also as you say you're humble (I don't know if it's true I haven't met you IRL) maintain that humbleness. Being jerk always looks good on ig/whatsapp sigma videos not IRL you look like a clown who can't control his emotions.
Arrogance comes from not wanting to hear other people's opinions.
I see no harm in hearing people out but still taking your own decisions. Remember, nobody knows the ideal answers in all situations. You have to keep learning.
Maybe try posing questions to them that you are yourself trying to find answers for, rather than just hearing whatever they want to say.
Don't necessarily need to like something or someone to still be able to work together. Just listen and absorb whatever may be useful insights for you, ignore the rest.
nah. OP valid. NTA
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