I worked for a publicly traded company for last three years. Let’s keep the name secret and call them ComZ. I am trying to understand their motivation and if they were ever serious about the bet. …
Yesterday it was a great day,
The day before yesterday I had a party,
Today is nothing but things are going through the cracks,
That’s life, bitch!
One of the toughest thing of an engineering is building a new product to specs. We have done the scientific discovery and now working through processes to build the product is testing our patience.
It’s not an easy task to balance stuffs on an extremely high paced life. The “work- life harmony” ( coined by Jeff Bezos) is hard to execute. He preached that it’s relatively easy to work 60-hours a week for long term. I find joy on doing meaningful work even longer…
This is a subjective question and many part of the world will answer it differently. I want to pick example of one of my work bosses. Why I think that he is a douchebag:
Dismissive and ignorant
He is one of the most ignorant persons I have ever worked it. He was not…
Covid+visa= (nightmare)²
This was by far the most challenging time of my 32-year life. A couple of reasons-
I have been hit by uncertainty about if I would be able to go back to the USA where I build my career for the last 8 years. I have close to…
Undoubtedly it is one of the most charming experience of my entrepreneurial career. Getting to YC is one of the hardest thing because of their multiple billion dollar exits- AirbnB, DoorDash, Stripe, Cruise, Instacart, Dropbox, Coinbase, Zapier, Ginko Bioworks, Bewx, Reddit, Faire, Relativity Space and many more.
YC invests $125k…
Today I got a paycheck from my own company. It feels awesome to have the ability to run our payroll and pay through own company fund. It’s liberating and comes with big bag of responsibility to be able to return the money couple to couple tens of time to the investors.
I just finished my three years stint at a publicly traded manufacturing company. It was a bittersweet journey and I am happy how it went. Here are a few learnings:
1. No company should be too big to execute innovation
It’s not uncommon to see the big companies pen through PowerPoint slides and can’t execute many things. It’s the lack…
Family is what you have
I had a tumultuous 2020 like many others. Everyone has a different story. I was stuck in Bangladesh for seven months to get an H1-B visa. Taskin was all by herself in the USA. I was worried if I would ever be able to back on track with my career…
