While i love the ambition, i need to think this shit through again

Post MBA i will be stuck at under $3k MRR for next 5 years and my start will be from $1.3k MRR

Basically viewing my own salary in India as MRR and myself as the product

If lucky, that’s 40 hour week, 160 hour month for $1.3k

So a SaaS can out perform me if it sells to 150 people @ $10 month or 50 people @ $ 30 or 10 orgs at $150 month

A product with n of customers as low as 150 can outperform me

Then isnt that what I should be striving to build as a baseline?

Instead of imagining and ideating to have $10 million exits, I should be first trying to build SaaS that outperforms me

The path of building multiple outperformers can lead to stumbling across one that is so nuclear that it scales beyond belief

So the bare minimum now is to make things that outperform me

And it doesn’t take much to beat me in this context, a handful of customers and a product and position that seem convincing to customers that it will solve their specific problem will get the job done.

I think at this point, instead of dreaming about exits I should be more focused on solving problems and treating this more like a cash flow business.

An endeavor where my main goal is to not increase the valuation but maximize the cash flow that I earn so that I can sustain myself.

And if something is too good to not scale, valuation will kick in itself.

Basically, we build for cash and the valuation will take care of itself sooner or later in one attempt or another.

Looking for growing markets, deep understanding of TAM and their processes, grappling a valuable but monetizable problem, nice tailwinds and a position that works.

Offerings that are worth 10 stars.

The pivot for me now is, SaaS and ventures for cashflows and customer value not for Enterprise value and exit.

For now, the venture is for not for liquidity event but for sustaining myself.

Building a business not a startup since day one.

I think a lot of this comes from the fetishization that happens due to media where instead of looking at yourself like a savvy hustler selling anything and everything like some street hawkers or hustlers you start to glorify or see things only like Facebook or sophisticated trading as something that is only acceptable.

But with that type of thinking, you’re losing the plot.

You’re here to make money.

You’re here to sell product, extract cash, and build systems that beat your time.

Something that will generate more than $1.4k MRR.

Just keep trying to build something that makes more per hour than you do.