New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Someone once told me that the hardest thing about building a business is not the competition, or the capital, or even the decisions. It is the silence around the hard questions. The ones you cannot ask your team, your partners, or even the people closest to you. The questions that sit with you quietly at the end of a long day, when there is no one left to perform for.

In building ASCENT, we have tried to address that silence. It is my father-in-law Harsh Mariwala's vision, and I see myself simply as a custodian of it. He has always believed that entrepreneurs grow best in the company of other entrepreneurs, and I feel fortunate to carry that vision forward. The more time I spend with founders, the more convinced I b...