Sahil Sahni is the co-founder of AllyO, an end-to-end AI recruiter. He holds a PhD from MIT, but has now turned his focus to the entrepreneurial world, thanks to a passion for B2B2C industries. Currently, he’s focused on growing his company, AllyO, which is disrupting the recruiting industry with AI-enabled automation.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Different aspects of different entrepreneurs that Sahil has met
When business started difficulties overcame:
“my two biggest difficulties were, there was always the hunch should I quit my job. I think quitting your job is the most overrated fear by far. And the second one was emigration. I think these were the two… I think from quitting your job and thinking that your life is going to change that’s almost nonsensical. If you quit your job and you run a start-up in all worlds you are actually more valuable at that point and you can easily get a job back… so I think delaying it for that reason is unwarranted and it tends to be the most common factor of why people don’t quit. I will say one more that tends to be a big reason for inertia to people to do it. I think folks keep looking for ideas sitting in their offices, sitting behind their computer. They think an idea that will come will completely transform the world. And I have figured that you can have pieces of ideas but the sooner you get out there, go to a mall, go to a café, talk with strangers and discuss it, or whoever would be the relevant audience and have a conversation. And within a couple of days you can start predicting what others are going to say. At that point you know the relevance and how the market is going to perceive it. And that tends to be much more efficient way…I think people tend to deliberate a bit too much on what the idea is and try to over think through it on their own part”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
None
Favourite Quote:
“listen to everyone and then do what your gut says”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Techcrunch – Startup and Technology News
- Crunchbase – is the leading destination for company insights from early stage start-ups to the Fortune 1000. Get insights into your competition. Uncover startup trends, get company funding data Find new prospects, beat competitors and quotas
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Seek and provide help. Entrepreneurship feels very lonely, extremely lonely, almost such that it’s a risk to your decision-making. When in reality we are not alone, there are so many like us who have either gone through challenges or are going through similar challenges. I think if you seek advice from mentors, from investors, operators, from other entrepreneurs, from experts like yourself, and are willing to give to it it just makes it much more efficient and much more comforting”…[Listen for More]
More About Sahil Sahni:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The only thing that’s ours to accept is the fact that we don’t always get to know the answers.” Sarah Ockler
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sahil Sahni:
- “we spent probably nine months of just exploring different ideas in parallel to see what sticks and what doesn’t and push it to the next level”
- “you win the confidence to overcome the doubt as you scale”
- “you win the confidence to have the skill to pick which doubts matter and which ones don’t as you become bigger and bigger”
- “I think I misunderstood schooling with education. So schooling tends to be overrated, education is awesome. And entrepreneurship, start-ups probably give you more education than any other sources of education”
- “make the plunge it is just an experiment”
- “make the plunge, go and talk with people, go and develop your gut, it will become stronger, and then continue to repeat that process”
- “you learn how to prioritise through experience”
- “think of yourself two or three years down and the only thing that happens in a start-up success”
- “one of the biggest ones is hiring leadership quickly”
- “the biggest secret to success is the people you bring on, the second which follows closely is setting up a system such that they perform the best. The first part and the second part are equally tough…”
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