Play long term games
We used to ruminate about missed past opportunities in markets where we could have made a fortune. e.g. RIL in the year of 2k it was trading around ₹46 and today in 2022 it is trading around ₹ 2400 per share i.e, a 50K investment would be now a whooping ₹ 2.6 cr. This is the same for real estate, BTC, venture investment and any instrument. But for an individual who is in the starting point of zero and looking for similar opportunities can invest themselves in the opportunity by using their specific knowledge or time or experience. This is one that type of story.
Doing is better than watching
Seeking wealth over money or status is what drives me. I was born and brought up from a town called Thirukovilur where I started my rollercoaster journey a bit early when I was 12. I have a bunch of stories to share about how I turned a fun time video game into a small business, passion for mobile to mobile retailing, buying a two wheeler at age 15, setting up an internet cafe, telephone trading in stocks and commodity using my father’s demat account and later purely investing, then multiple startup stories on food industry along with friends. Most of these pursuits resulted with good returns, few with loses, but yeah that’s ok, it’s part of the game.
In the past decade of journey I have learnt and still learning to keep my desire to learn high, try new things and take risks, be curious and try to question everything, take actions without patience and be patient for results, talk only the required and listen and observe more, be empathetic and be original.
Life is too short to be normal, stay curious
Finding unbounded problems (a startup) to join or create comes with greater uncertainty, longer time horizons (often takens decades). That’s what makes them more exciting and worth pursuing — not just for the sake of outcomes or the impact, but also for the sake of adventure and keeping the fire bright inside.
Arriving at my ride
With all the curiosity I was eagerly looking for an opportunity at any early stage startup and arrived at Hypto as a first ops guy. The team at Hypto is full of great engineers, business development people, and down to earth founders.
Why early stage
As mentioned earlier on my pursuits, wealth seeking cannot be built by just renting out time, own equity that has the potential to grow 100x, 1000x. Knowledge seeking can be acquired easily by doing, at startups we get 100s of different things to do in short time. In simple, IMO 1 year at a startup is equal to 10 years at a corporate.
Why fintech
I found technology adoption is much lower in the finance industry than any other. Imagine how greater impact it will create in India if finance is powered with future technology. For instance, Century years old bank with greater trust of people, unlimited resources, and access to a country’s nook and corners powered with modern technology can turn most of the inefficiencies in the system to be efficient.
You can also imagine like this? Hey Jarvis, pay this drinks bill from my bank account and split, request to my three friends and also give info on the total amount spent on drinks over the past two years. Sounds cool right? Btw I don’t drink regularly.
Some curious closing thoughts
Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness
We want what we cannot have
We don’t want what we already have
If we get what we want, we won’t want it anymore
Pursuit of happiness, thus is a mental disorder
As you think about your own pursuits— I hope you find more interesting & worthy thoughts.
