September 03, 2025

The Real Cost of Love, Business, and Building To $100M Together (Siff & Nish, Arrae)

51 minutes

What if you took the money saved for your dream wedding and bet it all on your business?

Would it make or break you?

Siff Haider and Nish Samantray, co-founders of Arrae, share their raw story of love, sacrifice, and scaling to $100M. From immigrating to the U.S. with no safety net, to choosing business over a wedding, to learning how to fight (and win) together as partners in love and work, this is what it really costs to build big.

Why skipping their wedding was the best decision they ever made

How they scaled Arrae from $1M to $100M in just 5 years

The truth about building as immigrant founders chasing the American dream

How to fight with your partner without breaking the business (or the marriage)

Why most founders fail, and how they found the answers anyway

What it really takes to hire, scale culture, and protect a $100M business

Why they said no to selling (even at $300M)

Why they treat money in business as math, not emotion, and how that changed their personal spending

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