I GOT TOGETHER WITH A COUPLE OF FRIENDS AND PULLED OUR CAPITAL TOGETHER


salesman. His penchant for communication saw him go from knocking on 80 to 100 doors a day to leading the company’s expansion into new states and running 14 offices with 500 field people as director of sales.


Unlocking potential Things were going well until 2009 when the company, owing to the Great Recession, came to the brink of collapse. That’s when Damani saw an opportunity to buy-out the business and kick start his entrepreneurial career. “I got together with a


Opposite page left: Damani exploring


potential sites to set up low cost movie theatres in Nepal. Opposite page above: Damani evaluating a start-up during a conference in Hong Kong.


couple of friends and pulled our capital together and bought the business from our old boss, restructured it and took it down from 14 offices to five,” he says. In under two years, they


had not only made the company profitable, but also cleared all the debts of their former employer. Damani was again thriving in his new role as an entrepreneur, dreaming of one day investing into start-ups.


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