Richa

INFJ #doctor working at the cusp of #tech, #health & social impact.| Asso. @Jiohealthhub @CRISILlimited @UNICEFIndia @Roche @GEhealthcare

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

When I was a founder, no one replied to my emails or returned calls. Now I'm an investor and everyone wants to meet me. This is a side of entrepreneurship no one talks about. I've been meaning to share these thoughts for a while now.
As a founder, I would reach out to investors, potential hires, partners and all kind of people. Mostly sending cold emails and begging for warm intros. Some days I’d open my inbox ten times an hour. Nothing. Not even a polite No. And every meeting I did get felt like charity. People would check their phones while I was passionately talking about what i'm building. It wasn’t just isolation, it felt being invisible & lonely.

People say “build in public,” but the truth is, unless you’ve raised a lot of money or built a network around the big entrepreneur circle, you’re just noise in the feed. No one roots for you unless the world already has.

No one talks about this version of entrepreneurship where your startup is still ugly and half working. People don’t really meet founders. They meet press releases. Funding headlines. Vanity metrics. You don’t exist until TechCrunch or Yourstory says you do.

I didn’t have time for personal branding. I was too busy building, selling and surviving. And most days i'll wake up wondering , am I building something real and useful?

Then I became an investor. Suddenly, I was interesting.

Now my inbox is overflowing. Everyone wants to meet me. Founders, operators, influencers, even the ones who never replied before.

I get a lot of engagement on my posts & people tag me on social media. People ask for advice & feedback. They send decks, DMs & invite me as a guest to their events. Same events where i couldn't get entry earlier as a founder. Irony is, I used to be ignored for building. Now I’m celebrated for betting.

This is the part that messes with your head. Not the rejection but how conditional the world’s attention really is. So now, I try to reply to every cold email. I take the calls that don’t scale. Because I know what it’s like to be building something real and feel completely invisible.

If you’re a founder in the trenches, just remember this. This world doesn’t reward quiet builders. It rewards loud signals. And when you're not seen, it eats away at your mental health. Not because you're weak. But because being human means wanting to be heard. And if you’re on the other side, pause before you ignore the next unknown builder. Because today's nobody might be tomorrow's someone. And they’ll remember who replied.

Keep going.
The world may not meet you yet.
But one day, it will pretend it always did.

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Lancelot Pinto @lancelot_pinto]

Thank you, @richapintoi for highlighting the issue. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (or “bird fancier’s disease”) accounts for close to half of all interstitial lung diseases in India. https://t.co/pmbh4RFawO 1/n

[Sambhu Maharishi @dailyxdigest]

@naval When someone gets past big problems to speak out again, their words become stronger. They have a story that nobody can take away because it's part of who they are now.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

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[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I have 3 new followers from USA 🇺🇸, and more last week. See https://t.co/8dCFuCSK11

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I was really stoked to interact with the students from Koita Centre for Digital Health - KCDH (IIT Bombay) who were eager to understand the impact and endless opportunities working in the digital health domain can open up for them. Glad to see many questi…https://t.co/YrVUgo5qpY

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I am looking forward to the interaction with IIT Bombay students next week. Many thanks Prof. Bhagwati Prasad for the invitation #digitalhealth #access https://t.co/2gl3jUNniD

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I'm attending Holistic Health & Healthcare. Would you like to attend? https://t.co/hHZs96vfi6

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

It was a true pleasure meeting high-energy #entrepreneurs at the Healthcare Summit organised by IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA). Had some insightful discussions with #innovative startup founders such as @shripal_gandhi working on non-invasive digi…https://t.co/1EHh2LY8Vs

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

It was a true pleasure meeting high-energy #entrepreneurs at the Healthcare Summit organised by IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA). Had some insightful discussions with #innovative startup founders such as @shripal_gandhi working on non-invasive digi…https://t.co/yW6kJgbrvg

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

One of the most comprehensive analysis of #greatresignation I have see so far! This practically checks out as well...Almost all of the conversations I have had with friends and colleagues past and present who were looking out for a job change have revolve…https://t.co/mNhbz3swfU

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

Looking forward to the interactions tomorrow with creators & innovators #healthcareinnovations https://t.co/sn0FUfL4hO

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

This World No Tobacco Day #notobacco take charge of your well-being and #quitsmoking. Please join us for the #expert workshop #online on tobacco cessation to empower yourself & your family-friends with the right mental, physical and psychological tools to…https://t.co/6Pe5wiKsA2

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

Special thank you to my 1 new followers from Cyprus, and more last week. https://t.co/jJSW5xFJ2q

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

Glad to be part of the Digital Health Summit at @iitdelhi courtesy @IndinNederlands @NLintheUSA with @ravleenpal and Nupur

[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I have 1 new followers from UK. 🇬🇧, and more last week. See https://t.co/jJSW5xFJ2q

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[Richa @Richa_Doc]

I have 1 new followers from India 🇮🇳 last week. See https://t.co/jJSW5xFJ2q