Maulik Patel

Maulik Patel is an executive and technology leader who formerly led a renewable energy startup.

Entrepreneurship Accelerated My Career

“What I did as an entrepreneur accelerated my career trajectory as a result of what I was able to learn very quickly at a startup. At a startup, you are forced to learn new things constantly and it’s okay if those things don’t work, as long as you’re learning.”

• How do you define success?

  Am I learning something, yes or no.

• How do you set goals for yourself?

  Set a target for yourself, but be open to discovering what is wrong with your target

• What is a challenge you face with your business?

  Collections. Many people think that lawyers don’t need your money. Sometimes you have to turn down clients or walk away from clients because they haven’t paid on time, you’ve gotta be gangsta with it

What did entrepreneurship do for you? For Maulik Patel, a passion for environmental sustainability led to him joining a startup and eventually co-founding a solar energy performance software company. The learnings from this experience opened new career opportunities for him that previously wouldn’t have existed. In this episode, we talk about the importance of identifying the unique value you provide to the market and achieving your minimal viable product as efficiently as possible.

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