New Delhi:
The highway to success is commonly paved with failure. No less than that is how issues turned out for entrepreneur and investor Kunal Bahl. He did not get into IIT (one thing his mother and father have been hoping for) however that did not cease him from attaining large success in life.
“Many issues that I wished did not go as per plan at that time limit however it set me on a path that was higher for me. I did not get into IIT however I received into an excellent US faculty that opened my thoughts and actually helped me blossom,” Mr Bahl mentioned on the EDNBOX World Summit 2024.
“So, at that time limit, it looks like you could have failed, that is how society will make you are feeling. Like I mentioned earlier come out of the underside of that abyss, discover that little little bit of braveness to proceed. I bear in mind the day I did not get into IIT, everybody was upset in my household. I went and performed three hours of cricket and picked up from the place I left off,” he added.
The Snapdeal and Titan Capital co-founder additionally mentioned that his H-1B visa utility was rejected however that led to the start of his entrepreneurial journey.
“I used to be working at Microsoft within the US they usually utilized for my H-1B visa. I assumed I’d dwell within the US for a number of years. However in the future I used to be sitting in my workplace and I received a one-line electronic mail that my H1b visa had been rejected and that is how I got here again and began my journey as an entrepreneur. Should you preserve working with hardwork and sincerity, finally success will observe,” he mentioned.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables US corporations to make use of international staff in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.
After returning to India, Kunal Bahl co-founded Snapdeal – a serious e-commerce platform and Titan Capital, a enterprise capital agency that helps early-stage startups.
On the summit, he additionally defined why India ought to rejoice ‘Indicorns’. “The time period unicorn has emerged from the US, suited extra to the American context, and India must rejoice ‘Indicorns’ with its personal benchmarks of success and enterprise objectives tailor-made to the Indian context.”