Making a car is hard, but coming close to product-market fit is even harder. So many hard tests, so many failures. Sometimes I think, let it go, let me cry and live. A little later I think again, I have signed up for this. I have to move forward.
Actually there is no way to run. I broke all the bridges before I started. There is only one road ahead — to reach the destination.
Unless your back is against the wall, nobody comes to do such a big thing. And there is no other way. For a middle-class family like mine, there is no option but to take a moon shot. Wherever you are born, you should not have to die in that same place.
I know I am not good at a job. To tell the truth, I was not qualified. If I were qualified, I could have done a job.
In my family, I am the first-generation businessman. I had no mentor, no money. I started everything with empty hands. If the customers had not shown mercy, I could not have come this far.
For a child of a family like mine to study in America is nothing but madness. I went with 500 dollars in my hand. Because of my big brother's mercy, I had enough at that time to pass.
Earlier I was even more foolish. That you can stay abroad — it did not even come into my head. I came back home.
I love my country, that is true. Living abroad, love for the country grows even more.
The warm rain of my country, the cool wind of autumn, the black-jam by the roadside or the mango mash, or the dark green of my own tree — the happiness of these cannot be bought with crores of taka.
Abroad you get everything, even the leaves of the trees are green, but not green like the leaves of my country.
And I find happiness in building something. When a thing turns from imagination into reality, when the thing comes alive and moves — I don't think there is happiness in anything like watching that.
For that little while, everything feels worth it. All the pain flies away like camphor. All the ache, the tiredness, ends. Life feels beautiful. Every decision of life feels right. Most of all, I feel alive. I feel — yes, I am living well. From inside my soul, for the most Merciful, it floats up: Alhamdulillah.
Today I test-drove Cityboy Version-3. Alhamdulillah, now I can proudly tell people, this car is ready to be your companion.