A founder lost everything closing their first startup and swore off business forever. Years later in Indonesia, they built a new company from nothing, grew it into a success, and sold it to a multinational. The real win wasn't the money but proving they could build something worth buying.
I closed down my first company. I was in bankruptcy. I lost absolutely everything. And I said, listen, I will never open a company again. I will never set up a company again. You have that stigma and probably it's not you, it's your people around. The people around you, the one that make you feel even worse because I trusted myself. But then in a natural way, I came back to Indonesia, set up another company and that company was very, very successful. And when finally I sold the company to that multinational, I felt like, wow, good. I mean, it was not about the money. It was about having a multinational company acquiring something that I started from scratch.
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