India, June 30 -- Earlier this week, Aroleap founder Aman Rai shared an X post revealing that he took just Rs.10 LPA as salary for the first three years of building his home gym startup. Rai expressed regret at this decision, saying that "taking a slightly higher salary does no harm to the startup's health but can make a world of a change in the founder's personal life."

Now, fellow entrepreneur Saurabh Garg has agreed with this take, citing his own example. Garg, co-founder of The Podium and Meru Life, said that he is broke at 43 because he did not take a larger salary when he should have.

Responding to Aman Rai's post about drawing a low salary as a founder, Saurabh Garg said: "Hard relate. Never raised apart from a tiny fnf at Meru. ...