Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, December 14th.

Today on Forbes, how this Indian immigrant went from an H-1B visa to building a $5.5 billion

business.

Joti Bansal sold his first company to Cisco in 2017 and then hit the road.

He was on his second African safari, eyeing the now familiar savannah, when it dawned on him that over the past several

months he had already hiked Machu Picchu, marveled at Norwegian fjords, and trekked across the

Himalayas. He was only 39 years old, and there was nothing left on his bucket list.

Speaking from his home office in San Francisco, where he lives with his family,

Bansal, who is now 47, says, quote, I tried to retire. People say once I retire, I'm going to do

what I enjoy. I asked myself, do I enjoy playing golf all the time or being on the beach all the time?

I don't really.

I realized why not just go back to what I enjoy, building a company.

So, he launched Harness, an AI-based software delivery platform that announced this past week

that it had raised a $240 million

series E round from Goldman Sachs alternatives, institutional venture partners, and Menlo Ventures

at a $5.5 billion valuation, enough to make Bansal a new billionaire. Forbes estimates his

net worth is $2.3 billion, thanks to an estimated 30% stake

in harness and plenty of cash from selling his first company, App Dynamics, which diagnoses

and troubleshoots software anomalies, to Cisco in 2017, mere days before it was set to IPO.

Bonsal's first venture inspired his second.

He says, quote,

The problem I was fascinated with at App Dynamics

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