An IIT graduate and Bengaluru-based co-founder shared his journey of leaving Flipkart to start his own company and what he learned after a decade of hard work.
Harsh Pokharna, the CEO of a Bengaluru-based company, took to social media to reflect on his startup journey. He shared how he faced early failures but kept going, and even after ten years, his journey is far from over.
“I quit Flipkart to build a startup because I wanted to make a lot of money very quickly. Founders around me were raising millions of dollars in funding. It seemed easy,” Pokharna wrote.
However, the reality was different. He revealed that in the first two years after quitting, he experimented with three different ideas, but all failed. As a result, he exhausted his savings and had to rely on freelancing to survive.
Eventually, he co-founded OkCredit and has been building it for the past eight years. Through this journey, he learned a crucial lesson:
“Startups are not an instant success formula. It’s a long-term game, not a ‘get rich quick’ scheme. Play it only if you truly want to solve a problem; otherwise, you’ll end up disappointed,” he added.
