Four Places Away 😢
What losing at Genesis 2026 taught me about business, confidence, and the gap between an engineer and a founder. There are some days when winning feels normal. And then there are days when losing teaches you more than winning ever could. Today was one of those days. We finished 4th among 40+ teams from across Bihar at a business idea competition at Alliance University . Only a few places separated us from the top. And the reward was not just a trophy or certificate. A sponsored ticket to Bangalore was waiting for the top positions. We were just three steps away. And that hurts. It started with confidence Going into the competition, I was honestly very confident. Not because I thought we were the smartest people in the room. But because we had already worked on our idea, questioned it, refined it, tested different angles, prepared the pitch, and built a story around it. I genuinely believed: “We are making it to the top.” That confidence wasn't fake. But maybe, in some ways, it ...