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In this episode, I’m speaking with Kundan Joshi, Founder and CEO of TheAppLabb & AI Labb, a leading app innovation firm that boasts of clients like Unilever, Samsung, Dell, Suncor, Petro Canada, RBC, TIFF, among others.
However, Kundan fell into entrepreneurship by accident. He needed a summer job after first year as his Dad was struggling to find work. He looked for software engineering jobs but couldn’t find any.
But not having a job wasn’t an option as he had to support the family. So Kundan took the best option at the time; sales.
And so, door-to-door energy sales. Selling credit cards at the intersection of Yonge and Dundas. Then a mall kiosk selling high-speed internet. He did so well that the owner told him, “You won’t make this much money in a year after you graduate. Why go back to school?”
But Kundan went back to school. But he also became a franchisee for Rogers, selling high-speed internet at Weston St, London, Ontario.
Kundan and I chat about:
How failures expose your blind spots
Why approaching every person you meet without judgement is freeing
His entrepreneurial journey
Why every crisis is also an opportunity
Dozie’s Notes
A few things that stuck with me as I listened through this week’s conversation:
Never waste a great crisis. Every crisis you face is a choice between decline or an opportunity to reinvent yourself. It’s easy to wallow in self-pity and accept decline. I know it’s easier said than done, but you can also decide to go in the other direction.
Failures reveal blind spots you often can’t see any other way. There are things you know you know. There are things you know you don’t know. And things you don’t know you don’t know. These are our blind spots. Failures force you to confront that third category. Without failures, you plateau. You keep growing horizontally but you can’t go higher because you can’t see what’s holding you back.
The journey is the reward. Kundan describes running a business as going up, discovering a blind spot, going down, addressing the blind spot, going back up higher than before. Repeat. If you wait for the end to feel rewarded, you miss everything. Growth happens in the movement. The failures. The learning. The blind spots discovered. That’s the reward.
Official Links
✅ Connect with Kundan Joshi on LinkedIn
✅ Check out the AI Labb
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