Volunteer to Co-founder - My journey with Udhyam
As I joined as a Volunteer to Co-founder and then shortly after, moved into an early team member Generalist role into the non-profit start up that Udhyam was, my world and I were starting to change in many ways.
For starters, as the 9th employee of Udhyam, I knew everyone and everyone knew me in the organization compared to larger corporates where I was acquainted with a very small fraction of the workforce. Joining an org without a formal offer letter was unheard of for me until then, and when I heard from RK that all the previous employees including himself were just made verbal offers and had joined, I requested him to send me atleast an email that I had been hired, along with role and compensation details :)Â
Next, as late as in 2017, I remember making grand statements to some friends that I would do anything in my career, except for sales and HR. And here I was just a few months later - selling the concept of Udhyam Vyapaar to Vyapaaris, and setting up Freshteam for our hiring needs [went on to do a lot more with HR in subsequent years - happily!]Â As someone who was taught and re-taught firmly from childhood that it was important to succeed, and failure is a bad thing, here I was at the age of 38, in the earliest days of Udhyam Vyapaar trying to deal with the fact that my first 40 pitches to Vyapaaris were a failure! And so were the 1st iterations of some experiments we tried later that year.
Source:Â Volunteer to Co-founder - My journey with Udhyam
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