Learning from Failure with Benjemin Elengovan of MyGigsters

14 Sep 2025 / Ep. 46 / 41:32

Failure isn’t the opposite of success – it’s the stepping stone to it. Every entrepreneur faces the inevitable question: when do you push through, and when do you pivot? How do you read the subtle signals the market sends about whether to accelerate or pull the plug?

In this episode, Benjemen Elengovan, Founder and CEO of MyGigsters, shares his entrepreneurial journey through both triumph and setback. He shares hard-won insights on transforming failures into fuel, making those crucial go/no-go decisions, and knowing when it’s time to gracefully exit one venture to birth the next.

From his early startup wins and losses to the lessons now powering MyGigsters, Benjemen reveals how every “failure” became a building block for something bigger. This is about turning your scars into wisdom – and your wisdom into your next breakthrough.

About Benjemin Elengovan:

Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/benjemenelengovan

Website: https://www.mygigsters.com.au/

Check out THE Product Bus

From The Product Bus comes The Bootstrap: Building Startups from Scratch – your weekly source of news and practical support for bootstrapping founders – or founders building their business with their own effort and funds and no external investors.

The Bootstrap unpacks strategies that any founder can apply to make smart, data-informed decisions as they navigate the early stages of building a startup. We focus on helping founders avoid the common pitfalls that stop many great ideas from becoming a reality.

Each episode, we start with one or two news items that bootstrapping founders need to know, and then host Scotty Allen (Founder of The Product Bus) is joined by a guest who brings their experience and subject matter to a specific topic with practical, actionable strategies that founders can take away and apply immediately to their own business.