HostMyGuest Founder on ‘The Loneliness of Building a Category No One Has Named Yet’
Gali Arundar Sai, Founder & CEO, HostMyGuestHyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 29: There’s a particular kind of quiet that comes with building something that doesn’t have a name yet.Not the quiet of failure. Not the quiet of an idea that isn’t working. It’s the quiet of standing in a room full of people you’re trying to help and realizing that even the language to describe what you’re offering them doesn’t exist. You can’t pitch it in one line, because the one line hasn’t been invented. You can’t point to a competitor and say, “like them, but better,” because there isn’t one. Every conversation starts from zero.Most founders don’t talk about this part. The startup narrative we’re hand...