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Had an inspiring meeting with Mr Subhash Choudhary, Co-Founder & CTO of Dukaan — a young entrepreneur who grew up in Manigachi village, Darbhanga, and has never forgotten where he came from. Subhash has committed ₹1 crore to Bihar sports through his newly launched Nath Foundation, sponsoring district-level cricket teams across Darbhanga, Madhubani, and Sitamarhi — covering kits, year round coaching, ground access, and tournament travel. The talent, as he rightly says, is in our villages. As Industries Minister, I also encouraged him to establish a Tech Office of Dukaan in Bihar — a no-code ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of every scale to build and manage their own online stores. He agreed readily and warmly. Welcome home, Subhash!
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Paul Graham: “Just fix things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems like the problem is important enough to build a company on."
A Final Message From Scott Adams
• 50 former founders work at Cursor • 35 former founders work at Notion What other companies do this?
Ben Horowitz on how to deal with “The Struggle” Ben is asked about his famous blog post “The Struggle” and how to deal with it. He recalls Business Week writing a cover story about his company Loudcloud titled “The IPO from Hell.” The Red Herring wrote an article speculating that Ben was taking the company’s cash and setting it on fire in his parking lot. “These things hurt my feelings… But most of the stress doesn’t come so much from what people in the press and people on Twitter think. It’s more how people in the company start to feel about it. You’ve brought all these people in. They believed in you. Things aren’t going as sold. And you feel that, and it’s going badly. And then it’s amplified if they read that you suck in the press, as they did about me many times.” He continues: “I didn’t care that they said I was an idiot. What bothered me was people who work for me would go home and their spouse would go, ‘You know your CEO is an idiot? I just read it here in Business Week.’” As an entrepreneur, Ben had never really found a great outlet for this. He vented to his friend Bill Campbell who had similar bad experiences running a company called Go. But that didn’t help that much: “We’d talk about it and he would understand, but it didn’t help that much. It’s still a struggle. It’s still difficult. You just have to focus your mind on what you can do… You can’t focus on what’s going wrong and what that might imply.” He recalls an analogy from a class Peter Thiel taught on startups: “He says there are people who believe in statistics — they believe there are probabilities, that things happen, and all you can do is run a process and it is what it is… And then there are people who believe in calculus, and they believe there’s a right answer. If you’re a startup CEO, you have to believe in calculus. You have to believe you can find the answer and that’s all you can focus on… And trust me, there’s always an answer… But that’s really all there is. There’s not that much comfort out there.” Video source: @StartupGrind (2014)
