Bilal Junaid is one of the most renowned people in Silicon Valley.. His name is included in the list of the top players in the venture capital industry. However, business was not always what Bilal Junaid wanted to do. With a degree in Mechatronics engineering that too with the dean’s honour list for all 6 semesters, Bilal Junaid was working as a senior engineer for 4 years in San Francisco. Before that, he was also associated with Amazon Web service in its distributed systems while still in college. Today we are here to learn about what made Bilal Junaid change over to an entrepreneurial field and why he sees benefits in it.
The first reason that made the entrepreneurial world have an immense appeal to Bilal Junaid was the fact that it was a location independent career path. Bilal Junaid is a huge believer in the digital Nomad lifestyle which allows you to work online in various locations instead of having a fixed physical location. One of the greatest advantages of the digital nomad lifestyle is the ability to travel while still earning a living and this is exactly what appealed to a freedom-loving individual such as Bilal Junaid.
Secondly, as Bilal Junaid himself says, “Software runs the world, I knew that if I wanted to make it big financially, I needed to learn how to code, and then build applications which can be used by millions of people, and eventually scale into my own business.”
The third reason is what made Bilal Junaid choose to be a venture capitalist rather than anything else. He said he knew that to be rich you can’t just work hard you have to make your money work for you. This is what led him to the rabbit hole of investing. After meeting a group of venture capitalists in San Francisco his desire to make a debut in that industry only grew stronger and soon Bilal Junaid found himself joining that League. Bilal Junaid says that since he found himself truly enjoying the work it was altogether more appealing for him to make the switch.
There is definitely a lot more with which you can learn about Bilal Junaid. If you want to take a peek into Bilal Junaid’s personal life and his achievements in the Valley you can follow him on the link given below:
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bilal-junaid-b5487317