BD guy who got tired of watching developers miss the business side. Picked up code 6 years ago. Never stopped. Building things that make business sense.
I spent 20 years in Business Development.
Sat in boardrooms. Closed deals. Helped businesses scale.
But I always depended on someone else to build the product.
One day I got tired of that.
@mannupaaji Took me a while to understand this. I was building in silence thinking the product would speak for itself. It does not. The building is the content. Sharing the journey is what brings the customers. Wish I had started posting here much earlier.
@priyankapudi I code for 6 years. AI now writes half of it.
But AI cannot tell you what to build or why users won't pay for something.
20 years in BD taught me that.
Coding still makes sense. Just not for the reasons people think.
Opened my laptop before my first cup of ☕.
No meetings. No boss. No permission needed.
Just me, my code, and a product I am building from scratch.
Some days I miss the salary. Most days I don't.
@Varnika99 Spent years in business before learning to code. There were days nobody cared, no traction, nothing. You just keep showing up anyway. That is not a motivational line. That is literally what the work looks like most of the time.
@SofiaMarin5555 First dollar is the hardest one. Not because of the money but because it proves the whole thing is real. The rest is just repeating what worked. Congrats.
@eliana_jordan 2 years is nothing. I spent 20 years in business before I even wrote my first line of code. The building phase feels slow until one day it doesn't. Keep going.
The combination of 20 years knowing why businesses win and 6 years knowing how to build them is the most valuable thing I own.
Nobody can take that from me.
I spent 20 years in Business Development.
Sat in boardrooms. Closed deals. Helped businesses scale.
But I always depended on someone else to build the product.
One day I got tired of that.
So at 40 I opened my laptop and wrote my first line of code.
It was terrible.
6 years later I still write code every day. Still terrible sometimes.
But now I build products from idea to launch without asking anyone for help.