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title: 10 years later
date: "2022-03-17T07:54:39Z"
lastmod: "2022-03-17T07:54:42Z"
categories:
  - how-i-do-things
wp_id: 3326
description: "Ten years after imagining a modest company that might barely survive, the author reflects on Gramener crossing one meaningful threshold after another and still feeling both scared and grateful."
keywords: ["Gramener", "entrepreneurship", "10 years", "milestones", "founder story", "growth"]
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![10 years later](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2022-03-17-gramener-10-years-later.webp)

On [12 Jan 2012](/blog/the-next-chapter-of-my-life/), on a flight back from London, I wrote:

> ... it was clear in my mind. I would be an entrepreneur. I would create a small company that would probably fold. Then I’d do it again. And again, 10 times, because 1 in 10 companies survive. And finally, I’d be running a small business that’d be called successful by virtue of having survived. A modest, achievable ambition that I had the courage for.

10 years later, [Gramener](https://gramener.com/) successively crossed 10 employees, 10 clients, 10 years, $10 mn and is on its way to 10 offices.

We just opened a new office at Hyderabad.

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2022-03-17-gramener-collage.webp)

I have the same request as 10 years ago.

It's scary but exciting. Wish me luck!