Viney Hiremath, the co-founder of Loom, recently took to his blogpost to share, what he called an "unrelatable" story of turning into a multi-millionaire after selling his tech company Loom for a staggering USD 975 million or about Rs 8,000 crore.
Hiremath shared a post on his X account, carrying a link to his blogpost.
His X post read, "I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life.
Where I talk about leaving Loom, giving up $60m, larping as Elon, breaking up with my girlfriend, insecurities, a brief stint at DOGE, and how I'm now in Hawaii self-studying physics."
Rich And No Idea
The blogpost further read, "I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally un-relatable position of never having to work again. Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don’t have the same base desires driving me to make money or gain status. I have infinite freedom, yet I don’t know what to do with it, and, honestly, I’m not the most optimistic about life.
I know. This is a completely zeroth-world position to be in. The point of this post isn’t to brag or gain sympathy. To be honest, I don’t exactly know what the point of this post is. I tried to manufacture one, but I just felt like a phony. Then I recognized the irony of creating purpose out of a blog post when I don’t currently have much conviction or purpose in life.
So I’ll just go ahead and explain my current situation for my own selfish purposes. To push myself to be completely (and awkwardly) vulnerable to a blob of nameless strangers over the internet. No expectations of what comes out of it."
Hiremath took us through other faces of his life.
He further added to his post and said, "Going to the redwoods and giving up $60m
Last March I had no idea what to do with my life. I knew that staying at the acquiring company was not it for me for the big company reasons you might suspect (lots of politics, things moved slowly, NPC coworkers, etc.), but I found it very hard to give up a $60m pay package. I had already made more money than I knew what to do with, but your mind does funny things when you start to consider numbers like this.
So I decided to go to the redwoods and figure it out.
Within 5 minutes of my first hike, the trees smiled at me and whispered their simple wisdom.
What is the point of money if it not for freedom?
What is your most scarce resource if not time?
I would leave to do something. Anything. To be alive again. I had no idea. But I was hell bent on making sure everyone knew I had it all figured out. Out of ego. Out of fear of wading into the unknown. When you work on something that consumes your life for a decade, it’s hard to let go of the certainty and purpose you’ve grown accustomed to."
Cringe Attempt At Being Musk
Explaining his apparent rudderlessness, he added, "Robotics, or my cringe “trying to be Elon” phase
The immediate 2 weeks after leaving an intense 10-year journey, I did what any healthy person does and met with over 70 investors and founders in robotics. I had been learning about robotics for quite some time and was positive I wanted to throw myself into giving computers arms and legs. I had come up with all the tag lines to delude myself into thinking this was my “life’s calling”. Everything had been “leading to this exact point”.
“The world is going through a major labor shortage!”
“We must stay competitive against China!”
“The market for highly repetitive labor is multiple trillions of dollars.”
At the end of the 2 weeks, I left feeling deflated and foolish. I didn’t want to start a robotics company. The only thing that seemed interesting to me was humanoids. It started to dawn on me that what I actually wanted was to look like Elon, and that is incredibly cringe. It hurts to even type this out."
Breaking Up and Going To the Himalayas
"After deciding to not start a robotics company, I found myself rudderless. No sense of direction. I traveled to many beautiful places with my loving and supportive (ex) girlfriend. This 6 month stretch could be several essays on its own, but the outcome of this period is that nothing seemed right."
As a side note, he added, "(If my ex is reading this. Thank you for everything. I am sorry I couldn’t be what you needed me to be.)"
Furthermore, Hiremath said, "After breaking up with my girlfriend, I did what any healthy person would do and decided to externalize my emotions by climbing a 6800m peak in the Himalayas with absolutely no mountaineering experience or training."
"When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt. So I reached out to some people and got in. After 8 calls with people who all talked fast and sounded very autistic smart, I was added to a number of Signal groups and immediately put to work."
Quitting Elon Musk's Doge In 4 Weeks
Hiremath added, "Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups. I was immediately acquainted with the software, HR, and legal teams and went from 0 to 100 taking meetings and getting shit done."
He finally quit his "job" at DOGE and said, "So, after 4 intense and intoxicating weeks, I called off my plans to move to DC and embark on a journey to save our government with some of the smartest people I’ve ever met. And I booked a 1-way ticket to Hawaii."
(File photo) Elon Musk | Wilkimedia Commons
Vinay Hiremath ended his blogpost on pensive note and added,"However, there are some questions left unanswered.
Why did I need to do the absolute most to reach this point?
Why couldn’t I just leave Loom and say “I don’t know what I want to do next”?
Why do I feel the need to only be on a journey if it’s grand?
What is wrong with being insignificant?
Why is letting people down so hard?
I don’t know. But I’m going to find out."
