The Year I Almost Shut Down a Profitable Company

By Devraj Menon1 min read

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Profitable on paper, exhausted in reality — why I nearly walked away, and what I fixed instead.

Where It Started

The business was profitable, but every dollar of margin came out of my own hours, not the system we had built.

I drafted a shutdown email before realizing the problem was not the market — it was that we had no repeatable commercial motion at all.

We rebuilt pricing, qualification, and handoff from scratch as a documented system instead of tribal knowledge.

The company is still profitable — but now the margin comes from the system, not from me personally.

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