A few months ago I quit my job to pursue entrepreneurship full-time. Here's how it's going:
My life felt empty, like there was more to it than this. Realised entrepreneurship is how I'll be able to build a life of adventure, freedom, innovation, and meaningful contribution to society.
Quit the job, and for the first few months, learnt and built with recent tech like full-stack, AI, agents, and automation.
Realised I was a mediocre salaryman who didn't know the B in business. So put in the time to learn it: Books like Anything You Want (@sivers), The Millionaire Fastlane (@MJDeMarco), Almanack of Naval Ravikant (@EricJorgenson), etc. Events and workshops in Bengaluru. Videos of @naval, @AlexHormozi, @danmartell, and indie hackers.
Struggled with a scarcity mindset and started adopting an abundance one.
Have started on a few projects. Generic, probably won't make money. Shipping and putting them out anyway.
Finally getting the hang of business (a little bit, still a long way to go).
Working on finding and validating ideas I can build and sell. The builder-to-founder journey.
Still figuring it out. No idea where this road leads. Follow along if you want.
— Tejas Kalpande (@tejaskalpande) July 9, 2026
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I left a six-year engineering career to build my own products. This is how it's actually going — the wins, the doubts, the day-to-day, posted as it happens on X.
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