Today I Lived

We got keys of our first office. Guess we are grown ups now.

Found myself being over excited and acting embarrassingly weird stuff. I forgot my adolescence can take trip back home.

I was too harsh to my team members and I felt sorry after that. but I bit my lip, instead of blurting out sorry

A customer told us that our work is AI and all of the team gathered up and discussed for 2 hours obsessively on what went wrong. Sometimes I think - “Really? I made this team?”

Today I signed a makes-me-shit-in-my-pants deal

Today, I had a customer go from “we are happy with traditional workflow” to converted-closed in 5 minutes. It was all due to asking “can you help me understand why” when she said “I don’t like AI.” followed by sending some kickass no-bullshiter samples.

“For a different result, you have to do something different” - Struck a deal that is unusual by many standards. Did it because want to do something different this time.

Had a kickass start of the week, I won the first punch with my week

I was feeling quite low but I lifted myself up and pushed myself into working through it. “You don’t let yourself slow down in the middle of a round”. - in boxing context.

Today, I got a call from a prospect in my sleep, I woke up to the call, drowsily introduced myself, then gave a perfect pitch of what we do, and slept back. All in 20 seconds

I switched my cold call strategy to tell them that “I got this contact from another brand owner” and it increased trust so much that they stayed longer and receptionist even forwarded founder’s contact twice. just the start so lets see

Found a kickass candidate, working from a remotest part of Rajasthan. Is in class 10th but has self taught himself lead generation.

Made a good friend and had a great time. Also, Bangalore club is pretty.

I had the most ordinary day today but in the evening, I seized it by doing some focused work. vibed with some theivery corporation and co songs.

The meaning of winning the day hit me. There are so many distractions everyday but then some set of tasks are so important that without them you feel you lost the day. Let’s see if I use this realisation

Today TIL got its life. Idea of starting it is to be able to capture days between years so that I can compliment saying “Time flies!” with “but I lived.”

I had another mindless conversation with my friends and loved it. Has recently become this person who has started enjoying friends company

I went to meet my ex-colleagues and I was able to put a nice pitch for GlitrAI and was also not super awkward. I was the youngest but I fit right in. I also went into this meetup even though I did not feel like it initially. I did not skip this time.

We started planning our next quarter and its goals. I loved the way I conducted the meeting in a way where I just knew what rough picture I wanted to draw is going to be but it took a good shape when I started talking.

I think I speak too much. I should be great at saying right things in the right amount

I liked how I started with recapping good things which happened in last 3 months and how we faced incredible challenges which affected our plan execution.

My team made me realise I negotiate too cut-throat with my customers and I should close at a more win-win pricing. - It is a grave mistake but I felt good to know that I am a good salesman.

I had to let go of one employee. I had the hard conversation with him. At the end, the person had zero despise for the decision. I am proud of the way I carried that conversation out

I watched inside out and I realised how I was missing this perspective in the past

I met an awesome person, who is running a Business Intelligence startup for retailers. He is quite senior to me but we had a conversation like a friend. This is new me. who will make connection, meet people, do some signalling here and there.

My team made me realise that 3 months flew by and we did not achieve much in our startup. It was a kick in the gut moment. I realised how every moment that I don’t perform, is something I have to pay a premium for in the future if luck too did not help.

I am chilling