So Arnav, what’s actually on your head?

What are some questions that I get from you all?

1. Why are you not launching IPs
2. Why did the website take so long?
3. You started on twitter, and then stopped. What happ?
4. Are you okay?
5. How’s it going with the team?

Honestly, i can go on with the questions. But what does it all come down to?

Just not being involved enough?

Let’s give a simple realisation I had literally 24 hours before writing this.

It was Sunday evening, some team members had worked their a*s off throughout the weekend to answer 200 questions on Quora.

But if you’re answering questions on Quora, they should exist right?

Else who’s bothering to read what you’ve written.

I was going through the document, and saw that the POC had self generated 200 questions..

Yes, self generated.

We’re forked right?

I tried everything, Gemini 2.0, GPT, Deepseek, Perplexity, but nothing was able to find questions.

I called freelancers, AI experts, but no luck on Sunday night (obviously)

The team volunteered to find and rewrite 200 answers. But that’s just not fair on a Sunday night

TLDR: Sat down 12 hours and found similar questions if any that existed on Quora.

I’ve honestly not needed to intervene.

But that also made me realise, that damn.

Why the hell does your team need to work on it over a weekend?

Is there some way of working that you could have streamlined?

Doing the research myself, it never felt like a task. Mainly because I was learning so much about the finance world. But is there a way it can be gamified?

All of that aside, it just told me that man, you really need to sit down and also be involved outside of creativity and results.

Not because of anything, but because sometimes you can probably help take the burden off your team who works tirelessly for you.

Sales, retention, finance managment, regulatory compliance, etc will keep going on. But this new found learning is something I hope any of you reading this can give a shot to so it doesn’t come to a situation that it did for us for you to make a change.

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Yup, you’re right. It doesn’t.

Why did the IPs not launch?
Why did the website take so long?
You said you’re launching a SaaS for so long, where is it?
You said you’re entering the video space, heh?

Honestly, it’s the same thing again.

Lead by example.

The 0-1 journey was me writing content for Nas Academy, designing stuff on canva, staying up and manually doing research, figuring out how to use different ESPs, and understanding DNS settings and authentication protocoals that felt like greek.

When the team started expanding, the work shifted from getting things done, to delegating to get things done.

And no, that’s not wrong. But is that the way to go about it?

See, honestly speaking there’s no right and wrong answer.

But unless i create an IP, manage it myself, and get it to show results. How am I really inspiring people to make it a priority?

If I don’t sit down and launch the website on a random 2 am whim, would we actually have got it launched last week? Probably not.

But why?

Because in the midst of growing, we forgot that things don’t need to be perfect at launch.

Launch it, fix it later (as long as it’s 80% there at least)

The SaaS, again, delegated to a PM and no daily invovlement from my end. Hiring doesn’t solve jack, unless you make it solve it.

Simply speaking, the delays are because I’m not freeing up time from the team.

Help them help you.

By now, you would’ve understood that I’ve failed miserably in managing a growing team.

But honestly, better late than never.

It’s a wake up call, to sit down, get your hands dirty, and do better.

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A. More 1:1s with the team (every fortnight instead of month)
I need to understand what they thing, and why the hesistation in pushing back

B. Systems.
Was speaking to a few folks, there’s got to be a team wide incentive rather than person wide. Implementation starts this week.

C. Do stuff: 
Yup, not just sales, client relations, etc. Write newsletters, get into design, work on research, get into data, get into ops. Get into everything to see what can be done better to make other’s lives easier.

And no im not just saying that, this week I’ll take care of 6 newsletters to get it goign

D. Manage the devs yourself, no PMs.

E. See how you can ensure no work weekends.

You’re probably like, Arnav, where do I click?

There’s no CTA in this newsletter, but if you genuinely had any learnings, or feedback, just hit reply to motivate me.

See you on Friday!

So here we are at the end of another honest spill from yours truly. Yeah, today’s been all about lifting the lid on what's been happening behind the scenes.

I just shared a whole bunch of things that went sideways and how I’m seeing them in a new light now. From scrambling to answer Quora questions that didn’t exist, to late-night project rescues - it's been wild. It’s kind of funny how you sometimes end up learning the most from the messiest days, right?

This whole adventure has really opened my eyes. It’s like realizing you’ve been running with weights on your ankles, and now it’s time to cut loose. I’m talking about stepping in more, not just to guide the team but to actually be in the trenches with them. No more missing out on the real action.

If any of this made you go, “Yep, I’ve been there too,” or if you’ve got some life hacks on handling team chaos, I’m all ears. Or maybe you just enjoyed the read and want to say hi. Either way, just hit reply.

I’ll catch you later with more stories from the grind. We’re all in this crazy journey together, trying to make sense of the chaos and maybe, just maybe, make things a little better step by step.