'I Got Bored', Indian CEO Quits Rs 1 Crore Microsoft Job To Launch Startup For Farmers
Imagine getting a job at Satya Nadella-led Microsoft, and that too with a dream salary of Rs 1 crore. You need to be both skilled and lucky to bag that kind of an offer, right? Well, a 44-year-old did have that dream job, but decided to quit such a high package, But why? Because he was bored.
Indian CEO Quits Rs 1 Crore Microsoft Job Because He Got Bored
After working for Microsoft for nearly six years, wherein he spent three years in Hyderabad and then transferred to the Redmond headquarters, Ruchit Garg left Microsoft in 2011. A few years later, he decided to launch a startup catering to farmers in his native India. When he quit his Microsoft job, his annual salary was approximately Rs 1 crore.?
"I got bored. I felt like a misfit there. I always wanted to run a business, and I had dabbled a bit in entrepreneurship in 2004 when the startup craze hadn't started yet. In 2011, when I saw them mushrooming in the US, I decided to get back in the game again",? he said, as per Moneycontrol report.
Why He Chose To Launch A Startup For Farmers
After that, he founded Harvesting, a business that aims to get farmers better deals by eliminating middlemen and selling fresh farm produce. The startup 'Harvesting Farmer Network(HFN)'?says it has helped over 37 lakh Indian farmers. Garg is the founder and CEO of the startup.
In response to a question about his motivation for entering the farming industry, Garg mentioned that his grandfather had been a farmer in an Uttar Pradesh village close to Moradabad. He farmed mangoes. Garg therefore desired to take on a significant task related to agriculture. These days, Harvesting increases the revenue for small-holder farmers. Imagine it as Amul of the next generation. Garg's startup provides farmers with advice, seeds, pesticides, and other resources they need to grow their crops. It also assists them in selling their produce both online and off.
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Looking Back At His Struggling Days
Former Microsoft employee Garg's interest in entrepreneurship began when he read the Harvard Business Review at the Lucknow Indian Railways library, where his mother worked as a clerk. The family suffered financially after he lost his father when he was nine years old, and the mother's meager salary served as their only source of income.
Having no money to buy books, Garg spent his time reading everything he could find at the library. He also considered going through the numerous case studies in the Harvard Business Reviews to be a "fun pastime". Following the founding of Harvesting, Garg received an invitation to Harvard University in 2018 to give a speech on financial inclusion for smallholder farmers.
"And I bought a copy of Harvard Business Review at the Harvard University campus, mine own copy! I still feel super elated about being able to do this- from not being able to afford a few rupees for books to getting invited as a panelist at Harvard and buying a copy of my own," the former Microsoft employee said.
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