On Stage at TiECON Ahmedabad

In 2017, I was invited to speak at TiECON Ahmedabad — one of India’s premier entrepreneurship conferences organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). By that time, Su-Kam had been through incredible highs and was navigating some of its toughest challenges. That made the talk more real, more grounded than any success-story keynote could ever be.

I talked about how Su-Kam started with a simple insight — that India needed reliable power backup. I talked about the early days of going door to door, about building our first manufacturing plant, about the audacity of taking on established players with decades of head start.

The Lessons Nobody Wants to Share

But I also talked about the mistakes. The over-expansion. The trust placed in wrong people. The cash flow crises that come when you grow too fast. These are the things entrepreneurs need to hear but rarely do, because most speakers only want to talk about their wins.

The audience in Ahmedabad — Gujarat being the entrepreneurial capital of India — was incredibly engaged. They asked sharp questions about scaling, about managing family and business, about knowing when to pivot.

Entrepreneurship is not just about building companies — it is about creating an ecosystem where the next generation can learn from our experiences and dream even bigger.