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And now, a startup literally called Nala- Grapevine

NCR based startup are mostly lala run startup. recently a founder didn’t know what’s their interview process or why they want to hire , after making offer , they are saying we want to close position in next 1-2 months not now. 

i pity on investor who invested in them. also one more reason to never join ncr based companies.

don’t join NCR based companies

Analyst

Ula laid off 23%

Software Engineer

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- Ola's recent Independence Day event 'Sankalp' highlighted its shift from ride-hailing to electric vehicles (EVs) and AI, sidelining Ola Cabs, now renamed Ola Consumer.
- Bhavish Aggarwal's vision positions Ola as a tech infrastructure company, aiming to compete with giants like AWS and NVIDIA, and potentially becoming a digital commerce powerhouse.
- Ola's ambitions include becoming a key player in semiconductor and EV manufacturing, aligning with India's economic growth targets and self-reliance goals.
- Despite the grand vision, Ola Cabs' service quality has declined, with competitors like Rapido and BluSmart gaining ground, indicating a potential end to Ola's dominance in ride-hailing.
- Ola Consumer aims to integrate all of Ola's offerings, focusing on last-mile mobility in smaller cities, but faces challenges from well-capitalized rivals in the ride-sharing market. 

 Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/features/ola-cabs-bhavish-aggarwal-ai-electric-vehicles-chips/)

Ola's Transition: From Ride-Hailing to Tech Giant

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When your startup is your 'baby'. Quite literally 😂

Consultant

Does anyone know any good startup in the seed/pre seed stage, that is building to solve an actual problem. 

Preferably with a viable business model or has gained huge traction already

Upcoming Startups

Founder’s Office

CTC or GTFO

UX/UI Designer

Startup where i am working got the NBFC lisence.

Product Designer

Finally an Indian AI startup

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I was interning at Microsoft and got the PPO as well. But I chose to join a remote startup and resigned from Microsoft, for various reasons including Pay, Learning, Product, Tech stack, etc.

And everyone I talked with since then has asked the same thing, "bro why did you leave Microsoft?",  "bro Microsoft is such a big brand", blah blah.

When are we going to realize that working for a FAANG /MAANG /FAANGMULA /LODALASAN company is not the ultimate goal of everyone's life ?

Why are people so obsessed with FAANG tag ?

Name which Startup Accelerator is this?

Software Analyst

It has become very prominent in India now

What are some startups in India where "bootlicking (chaatna)" work culture and only way to do well in the company

Project Manager

I'm starting a new company and am assembling a team, in all my previous startups had like 7 people working but now everyone is settled and few have retired coz made too much from the exits so back to assembling a new team :p

As in all my previous startups I paid an average of 40Lpa an 2-3% ESOPs to all the early team they made insane wealth. But now I'm thinking of going lower and meet the realities of the market rather than paying higher why not paying the market rate?

I have been taking multiple interviews and experienced this people consider higher salaries to be a lie they want to earn dirt-cheap salaries and don't trust themselves with what they deserve and in the end ended up mocking me. One of the senior people that I interviewed thought 3lakhs per month was very high no-one pays that much. Same goes for an intern who I decided to pay 1lakh per month thought it's not possible and ghosted me thinking I'm scamming him ( his job was to meet high profile people make connection with different founders by going to parties and events regularly )!

My new startup is not in crypto but in something unique!

What do you'll think should I pay people less as that's what they think they deserve?

Paying higher / lower in Indian Startup scene

What an absolute shit show
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/fraud-threats-sexual-harassment-zilingos-ankiti-bose-files-fir-against-co-founder-ex-coo-12706929.html

Zilingo CEO files FIR against COO & CTO

Zilingo is already defunct. A once billion dollar startup that is now literally 0. 
One of the major startup scams. Investors just kept lapping up the GMV growth.

And now when everything is over, co-founders filing FIRs against themselves.
Disappointing.

My only appeal to everyone: please call out if you're at a startup that's doing similar stuff. A lot of careers can get saved...

Corporate Strategist

Product Manager

•⁠  ⁠One thing is clear - AI is going to take away jobs, and not just engineers.
•⁠  ⁠So many "AI & SaaS" startups are just plain OpenAI wrappers. Their teams know what can be done "faster, better,smoother" but don't know how. One company even credited them in their poster. Well, honest at least 💁‍♀️
•⁠  ⁠They let in too many nibbi/nibbas and there were queues everywhere
•⁠  ⁠People selling skin brightening creams in 2024 is still very weird to me
•⁠  There's an electric cycle startup called Booty (i'm not making this up 💁‍♀️)
•  In all, the management was very good. Food was expensive though 😢 
•⁠  ⁠Best is the picture below, how Biryani tends to find me. This time the dogs are having fun too!

Startup Mahakumbh, Delhi : Experience Review

The Startup that you had an offer from but did not join, and then it went big? (Let's take a word from VCs, how they like to use anti portfolio lists on their sites - cos they got an opportunity to enter but missed)

What's your anti-startup

Growth Manager

I'll go first : 

1. Clickup
2. whop
3. Even healthcare 
4. Gumroad 
5.  Polymarket 


And mention the reason also, if possible.

Time to discover some less-known startups 🍿

What are some cool startups (globally) you would love to work with?

Byjus for its  honest business environment , compassionate work culture

Why people have to resort to such cheap tactics? 🥲

Baba ramdev tech version 🫡

100 likes and I am going to breakdown both his products. Find issues and reply to his LinkedIn post and tell him to hire someone to fix his shit

Which startups do you think have the good social media presence apart from Zomato and Swiggy?

Also mention why do you like their content.

Startups who are good  at social media

Founder

The startup is Accel and Elevation backed. 

The company raised seed funding because the founder and team is from IIT- Kharagpur, and Accel + Elevation have people from IIT-Kharagpur working in their team. 

The founder has no prior work experience, no manners on how to speak with anyone (office boy, or women employees) keeps firing people who don’t agree with him, insists on being in the office for 12 hours because he pays us. 

Hiring criteria is -
1. Single people, so no distraction. He asks are you single or in a relationship (in the interview)
2. No married people 
3. Hire women only if they can stay in office till 5 AM (US based startup)
4. Everyone has to be in office for 12 hours compulsory for all 6 days of week

He boasts on how the VCs will save his ass even if the product fails, has said that worst case scenario I will make money because I know company will be acquired. 

He hires domain experts, makes them create playbook and train juniors to do the work, and then fires them saying "We have to stay lean, and this is a bad market". He did this with 3 departments already. 

How are the VCs not asking him basic due diligence questions? He is now raising 8 million follow up round.

RANT.

This is grapevine for godsake. Name the damn startup.

Recruiter

Come at me, I'm not scared. There is a reason why FAANG engineers are top-rated VS some random startup engineer.

Here are the reasons why I think that Indian Startup culture is pure cringe:

1. The random use of the following emojis- 🚀💰📈📊💡
2. Fake enthusiasm for every little thing - "Wow! 25M people ordered condoms WOWOW!!!🚀"
3. Claim that you are a verb("company name"): "I am a (Zoman, Flipster, Swiggster or whatever)" but no one really knows about it outside of your company.
4. The HR is a proper softie in the name of Employee wellbeing but will end up being a sadist the moment layoffs happen.
5. Think hard if you really want to work in a place that is your LinkedIn feed on Steroids.

Indian startup culture is the cringiest thing ever

Bruh you high? 
 Have you not seen the infinite amount of cringe generated by so-called faang engineers on blind?  
 Startup or faang, shit is the same everywhere.

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