Freedom to Fail: Lessons from my Quest for Startup Success
Written by Shabnam Aggarwal
Narrated by Karen Dsouza
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My dear, incredible, beautiful team of superheroes,
Over the past two years, we have given this idea everything we've got. We've given it our love, our time, our sweat, and even some of our tears. We will be shutting down next Friday. I love you guys, and I am sorry to have let you down.
Yours truly,
Shabnam
Shabnam Aggarwal always dreamt of success. Raised in an immigrant Indian family in the start-up hub of Silicon Valley, she believed that every entrepreneur could be successful. So she left her cushy job at Merrill Lynch to take a risk, find her passion, and make a change in the world. She moved to India to start a company.In Freedom to Fail, Shabnam tells the story of her brush with 'success': raising her first round of venture capital; hiring a hardworking team of millennials; growing her start-up to multiple cities...and then finding it all come to a bitter end. Shabnam gives us a peek into the world of start-ups in India. Her personal journey gives us an insight into dealing with failure, warning us of the challenges of starting a business, and helping us learn from her experience. Weaving each chapter into a powerful lesson in overcoming expectations, fear and self-doubt, she shows us why failure is important, even imperative, in order to ultimately succeed. And the best lesson she learnt: You haven't failed until you stop trying.
Shabnam Aggarwal
Shabnam Aggarwal is an entrepreneur, advisor to social enterprise change-makers and author. The founder of varied high-impact startups, she is best known for her work advancing the education technology revolution in India. Her contributions have been featured on media outlets such as The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, Huffington Post, EdSurge, VCCircle, YourStory and Entrepreneur.com. Shabnam has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at universities including IIT, IIIT and MIT, and spoken at TEDx's around the world. She is a fellow of Summit, Sandbox, StartingBloc and Uncharted, and a former executive at Pearson and Merrill Lynch. Having built three companies from scratch, Shabnam holds the irreplaceable experience of having failed numerous times in the startup world. She is passionate about debunking the stigma of failure, specifically for South Asian women who are often held to a different standard than the rest. Freedom to Fail is her first book. Originally from Northern California, Shabnam lived in Cambodia for one year and India for seven years building companies and writing about her experiences. Shabnam's popular blog blog.shabnamaggarwal.com has tens of thousands of readers. She is an avid explorer who does not currently reside in one place, but readers can find her talking shop on Twitter or upside down practicing handstands on her Instagram account, both @shubbless.
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