Why a 'Safe' Job Is the Most Dangerous Bet | Ex-Big Law Founder, Sabih Siddiqi
Sabih Siddiqi had the golden handcuffs: big law, the prestige, the paycheck, and walked away to build Irys (formerly Iqidis), a legal-AI company he calls "Palantir meets Bloomberg."
A cancer diagnosis at 18 blew up the pre-med identity he'd built his whole life around. He rebuilt it as a litigator, spent nearly seven years in the law, then gave up the safe, charted track for the uncharted one. On this episode of FP, host Christianne digs into why staying would've been the real risk, why "trust your gut" is the exact instinct a legal career trains out of you, and the difference between…
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