Scale It Up

Humans always have the tendency to make the first move and just go ahead, but do we actually look far ahead? Do we even try to scale up? Or are we just happy to run the rat race and not actually Scale It Up?

Well, in reality, there is a huge gap between scaling it up and just moving ahead. In this episode with
Ishan Gupta, a global executive, and an investor, we explore what it actually means to scale it up.

Entrepreneur by Heart

Gaurav: What does it take to be an entrepreneur?

Ishan: Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. I have been an entrepreneur for eight years building companies, and another two years as the country head for Udacity in India, which is also entrepreneurial in nature. There, I realized that what really matters more than being an entrepreneur is having an entrepreneurial mindset. Over the last decade, a new distinction has come up, where it has become very fashionable and glamorous to be an entrepreneur. But the behind-the-scenes is really hard work. Any overnight success is a decade-plus in the making. It’s all about the mindset. So to me, that’s what entrepreneurship stands for.

Do you have the mindset to be resilient? Do you have the mindset to be patient and play the long game? Do you have the mindset to continuously learn? Do you have the mindset to continuously change track as and when needed instead of getting stuck in what you decided was the right hypothesis for yourself? I think if we do all these four things, we can essentially be entrepreneurial in nature. Now, whether you run your own company or you work with someone, it’s just your day job.