Ritu Narayan founded Zoom to solve a problem she faced herself: balancing career and childcare. She explains why passion matters in entrepreneurship and how personal frustration can fuel a business idea.
So your passion for something is when your love for something is greater than the fear of failure. You love something so much that you.
Really want to do it because you're not afraid to fail. What I have come to learn is.
That one should only do a startup.
When one is very, very passionate about the problem they are trying to solve.
Because building a startup, and especially building.
An enduring startup, is seven to eight years of commitment.
For example, take example of Jeff Bezos.
It took him almost more than two decades to build Amazon into a company.
From just selling books to selling everything or anything and delivering to your doorstep in less than an hour. Same if you take example of Elon Musk, who wants to change every car.
On this earth from gas car to an electric car.
These are hard problems to solve and.
They take years and years of enduring efforts. That's why it's so important to be passionate about the problem you're trying to.
Solve so that you can sustain and be a winner.
In 2013, actually I was working at ebay.
I was leading a platform where 4 million sellers used to sell anything and.
Everything to 250 million customers. This technology based platform actually worked like a magic. You could sell anything in a few minutes.
But in my personal life, I could.
Not solve a very simple challenge of parenting. How to take my kids from one place to another.
I wanted to do well in my career and grow in it and at.
The same time be present for my kids.
And every day I was challenged, how.
Do I drop my kids in the.
Morning and yet be there for the meetings, Morning meetings with executives and how to pick my kids at 3:30pm in the afternoon, take them to extracurriculars when.
I'm supposed to be at work at.
5Pm When I looked around, I found.
That it's not just me.
Every single parent in the ebay was.
Facing the same challenge.
And upon reflection, I realized 30 years back, my mother had faced the same.
Challenge in a small town in India.
And eventually she left her job to.
Take care of her four kids. What I realized was nothing had changed.
This problem spanned geographies, it spanned generations. The same disconnect had been solved in other areas with the platforms like Amazon and ebay. But when it comes to parenting, this had not changed. It felt like I was failing as a mother and also as a business leader.
So I started Zoom to solve this problem. With Zoom, what we are trying to.
Do is provide parents with freedom, choice and opportunity. What we feel is that no parent should have to make choice between their career and caring for their children.
This is a problem I'm so passionate.
About that I'm willing to do anything.
And everything to solve it in an enduring way.
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