Accidentally Sold the Business I Built

What happens when the company you built from nothing becomes worth millions, and you're not sure if you should sell your soul along with it? Accidentally Sold the Business I Built is the raw, unfiltered story of an entrepreneur who started with ₹15,000, a 120-square-foot room, and a stubborn dream that education could be built with heart, not just capital. From delivering pizzas to survive his first failure, to building Intellect Educare into a movement that transformed thousands of lives through classrooms, blood donation camps, and child safety programs, Dr. Periasamy Pradeep's journey is anything but ordinary. But this isn't a triumphant startup success story. It's about what comes after the headlines fade: the sleepless nights negotiating with corporate giants, the weight of protecting your people while chasing growth, and the spiritual reckoning of selling something you poured your soul into. This book asks the questions most founders are too afraid to voice: Can you sell a company without betraying its purpose? What do you owe the people who believed in you when no one else did? And when success finally arrives, why does it feel so much like loss? Written with brutal honesty and deep humanity, this memoir strips away the mythology of entrepreneurship to reveal its messy, beautiful, heartbreaking truth. It's a story for every dreamer who's ever built something they loved, failed publicly, risen quietly, and learned that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let go. Because some exits aren't endings. They're transformations.