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Sean Hwang

If you lost everything and had to start from zero, how would you get back?

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There's always a lesson in failure.


If anyone went through the situation of having lost everything, would love to hear about your story on how you got back on track! If not, would still love to hear about your hypothetical approach.

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Deepanshu Chittoria

Absolutely, there’s always a hidden lesson in failure. I went through a tough phase where everything I was building fell apart, and it forced me to slow down, reflect, and rebuild from scratch. What helped most was staying grounded, learning from mistakes, and surrounding myself with the right people. Even if you haven’t faced it yet, preparing a mindset of resilience and clarity can make all the difference.


After that, I started building Myjobb AI, a platform that helps job seekers find relevant jobs within seconds.

lynn

I would try my best to start everything over since I can still have some fresh memory. It would be good practice to keep important copies on the cloud so that you don't need to recall everything.

Rodrigo Soviero
I, like many people, saw myself losing “everything” when the pandemic hit. My startup at the time was built around a SaaS product made for gyms, so as you may imagine, I lost all of our customers (as they did too) overnight. The following month after lockdown hit we processed precisely one single payment, from a customer who wrote us a message sympathetic to our situation. The next month, nothing. Same for the next few months… It was the worst possible imaginable scenario. I had no money and no idea on for how long that would stay on, which made it impossible to plan ahead. Anyway, too big to pivot, too small to push through. Had to call it. So I’ve resorted to what I knew: building software. Looking back now it was all due to the network of people I knew, and that knew me. It wasn’t difficult before I had the first projects going. Mostly websites and landing pages for companies doing their bit during that time. The biggest lesson I think (and also something you can lean on) is that you have to trust your ability to deal with whatever comes your way. There’s nothing that you did once and cannot do again. You gotta trust you got that in you. It’s like when you measure the worth of a company not based on how much money it has on the bank, but on its ABILITY to make money. It’s the same for you!
Sean Hwang

@rodrigo_soviero Thanks for sharing that Rodrigo! When you were looking for projects to do, were you basically reaching out to everyone in network asking if they need your service?

Rodrigo Soviero
@seanphwang to be quite honest, I was lucky that I didn’t have to do that. I think for most people I was just “the guy” they knew and my work was decent enough that they would refer it to others. I think that’s the thing about networking in some areas. Sometimes all you have to do is be the guy that does X in a circle where nobody does. To be more precise, what I’m calling “network” is pretty much the people I’ve had as friends or good acquaintances. People I’ve met throughout my life in the most diverse scenarios. What most people don’t get about networking is that the REALLY good connections are made in settings optimized for that, not work. So I mean gyms, classes and other social settings.