From Banking to Cat Food: My Crazy Entrepreneurial Leap #shorts

23 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid, first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts the emotional moment he decided to quit his banking job and launch a cat‑food brand. He describes crying to his boss, despite loving his job, because he had just proposed to his future wife and felt he now had enough personal security to take a big risk. He frames the decision as a rare, once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to pursue something "crazy" that he believes is backable. A key motivation was his longing to work with a tangible, physical product—something he missed in banking, which he sees as purely service‑oriented. The speaker emphasizes the excitement of selling an actual consumer good (cat food) and the sense that this venture aligns with his personal values and desire for a worthy cause.

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What was the final straw in saying, fuck this, I'm gonna go build a cat food brand? There was no final straw. I, again, I, when I quit, when I quit to my boss, I cried. I was, I was, I was very emotional about it. Like, I, I loved my job. It was, I didn't want to leave. But I had proposed to my wife. I felt, my now wife, I felt like I had enough security. I felt like the idea was backable. And I'm like, look, you only really get one shot and one or two or three shots in life to try Something crazy. So I said, fuck it, let's let's go for a ride. Like this feels like like a worthy cause. What I remember is when I was like in engineering, I liked the thought of like dealing with like a physical product, and in banking you don't deal with physical product. Like it's just a service, and here you were. We are selling cat food. Like I I love that bit of it. Like I love the fact that we're dealing with like an actual product.