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The Founder's Gita: Bhagavad Gita for Startup Founders (Chapter 1) | Bookface

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We had 73 companies on paid plans. Enterprise pilots with some of the biggest AI labs. 1.5 years of building TensorFuse. And we couldn't see a path forward. While I was navigating the pivot, my mum was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer. I flew to India overnight. Sat through six-hour chemo sessions as her primary caregiver. Came back to SF to figure out what to build next. Flew back for the next cycle. Repeat. Pivoting a company while your mum fights cancer is a specific kind of hell. You're grieving a company that isn't dead yet and terrified of losing someone who means everything. Both happening at the same time. Neither waits for the other. Throughout December, I did what I've always done when things fall apart. I sat with a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and Claude, and meditated through my emotions. I'd read a chapter, talk through it, connect it to what I was going through, what I was seeing other founders go through, what the Gita actually says vs. the motivational-poster version of

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