you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
@patralekha2011@sumitra_p@sidhant this is absolutely not true. I transited to Frankfurt airport while transiting to the US. I didn't have any transit visa.
A few days ago, I packed my life into a couple of bags and left Bangalore.
For now, I’m somewhere in SEA and will probably be here for a while.
Before anyone asks, this wasn’t a tax, crypto, or money decision. I don’t have some secret windfall.
The simplest explanation is that I got tired of fighting systems that seem determined to make ambitious people move slower than they should back in India.
I looked at SF too. Decided against it for now might change later.
Most probably Singapore or Hong Kong will eventually become home.
The original post landed harder than intended, and the pushback is fair enough to respond to properly.
The point wasn't "young founders don't build great companies."
The point was aimed at someone specific: the founder who is late 30s, 40s, 50s - has spent a decade deep in a problem, and has been quietly told that they're already late. That person is real. There are a lot of them.
If you're 22 and you have a real insight, build. If you're 36 and you've been living inside a problem for a decade, also build.
That's all this was.