Leadership Journeys [98] - Paddy Raghavan - "It is not a failure, it is an experience"

This is the Leadership Journey series on the Choosing Leadership Podcast.

I believe we all have a lot to learn from each other's stories - of where we started, where we are now, and our successes and struggles on the way. With this series of interviews, my attempt is to give leaders an opportunity to share their stories and for all of us to learn from their generous sharing. If you know a leader whom you would like to see celebrated on the show, please send me a message on LinkedIn with their name.

In this heartfelt conversation, Paddy shares his passion for startups and how he moved from technology to entrepreneurship. He shared the powerful yet simple lesson of “nishkama karma” or detached action - and how he applies that in his role as the CEO. He shares how he had to take a big risk and pledge his property to pay salaries in his previous startup.   

You can find Paddy at the below links

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddyraghavan/

In the interview, Paddy shares

• I don't know, somewhere in my life somewhere I got this entrepreneurial, bug it's something that I've had right from my college days. Multipl is my third StartUp
• I always wanted to build something on my own that was on the cards, but it wasn't, I wasn't really desperate or I wasn't, not every day that I wake up that I start thinking about, or I should be starting something. 
• I mean it's always especially when you're actually interacting with someone who's fairly successful, which I would call myself and you would only see the positive side of it. And people tend to think that, yeah it's a nice journey. It's good we should become entrepreneurs. But I've definitely had my fair share of challenges.
• I literally had to pledge my property and to pay the salaries in the previous startup it was at a point where we had very difficult situation in terms of you know, raising capital and paying the salary 
•  I must be grateful to a lot of people. You know, my family has been very supportive. My wife has been very supportive throughout because that is very important. You can't have a you know, if you have a family you need the support because that could definitely take away a lot of your Focus if it is not in the right frame.