When You Realize You’re an Entrepreneur
10 Aug 2024 · 1 min
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Feras Alhlou describes getting laid off and teaming up with a friend to build their first business in 2003. A personal account of how necessity pushed him into entrepreneurship.
Feras Alhlou describes getting laid off and teaming up with a friend to build their first business in 2003. A personal account of how necessity pushed him into entrepreneurship.
When did you realize you wanted to be an entrepreneur? I was forced into entrepreneurship. That's what most people don't know. You know, I always had this idea of starting my own business, but I had a young family. I was doing really well. I was a VP in a tech startup here in Silicon Valley, but it took a layoff to make me think about starting a business. The job market was very dry at the time. I couldn't even get a single interview, but I ran into a good friend of mine who was thinking of starting a business. So we put our resources together, we vetted the idea, and we built that first business in 2003, and the rest was history.
