“If I leave PE and I can’t come back, I didn’t deserve it in the first place.”

Abhishek began his career as a strategy consultant and a private equity investor. He later got bit by an entrepreneurial bug in Jakarta where he spotted opportunities co-founded Circles.Life, a digital telco company which has bagged investment from big names like Warburg Pincus, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Sequoia Capital. We talked about taking a leap of faith, disrupting a legacy industry, and founder scaling.