🤣🤣🤣 yahi to social media ki khubsurati hai

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Saw a post on GV 5 mins back in which some LinkedIn post was shared :  Attaching the image here.  And here is the how PocketFM was founded :   “Rohan Nayak, the company's founder, found himself sta...

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Saw a post on GV 5 mins back in which some LinkedIn post was shared :

Attaching the image here.

And here is the how PocketFM was founded : 

“Rohan Nayak, the company's founder, found himself staring at the back of a crowded metro seat during his daily commute from Gurugram to Noida. The three-hour journey was filled with the monotony of audio series, and a question sparked in Nayak's mind: "Why is there no innovation in audio storytelling?"

Link to article : https://www.businesstoday.in/amp/latest/trends/story/from-near-death-to-100-mn-funding-how-pocket-fm-built-on-a-idea-that-came-from-a-metro-ride-424628-2024-04-07

I mean bhai direct founder se he copy kar lia 😂😂😂

Even the idea of the LinkedIn post was copied from the Founder 😂

Corporate Strategist

Even the idea of the LinkedIn post was copied from the Founder 😂- Grapevine

When many of us went to schools, we had autos/vans pick us up from home at specific time. This Mypickup service is also doing the same now 🤣

Saw a LinkedIn post praising their ‘innovative business model’

We have come full circle in cab rides

Is it just mine or is everyone’s LinkedIn blowing up with absolute crap. Like the most basic thing people are posting and making it sound like they discovered something huge or they’ve found some crazy insights. 

Everyone is trying to build their own LinkedIn brand and it’s just become frustrating. 

A lot of recruiters/founders still put out hiring posts on LinkedIn 

Some funny posts - 

- All founders acting like they’ve achieved something huge by being on the Forbes/times now/etc 40 under 40 list 
- Today someone posted about the business model of Shyamji Chole Bhature 
- People copy pasting the same fake stories

LinkedIn Rant

The day I don't have to open LinkediN any more to look for jobs, is the day I'll have accomplished all I need to in life 🙏🏼

Intern

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Found this on Instagram

Imagine getting laid off and being subjected to a free financial planning lesson regurgitated over multiple clout-chasing accounts.
If they really care enough, why not use that clout to refer folks in need of jobs?

Clout chasers: Never letting a crisis go to waste

Program Manager

Hey guys
One of my friend is fired with 7 day PIP. He was working in a Service company NeoSoft. It has 4000 employees and labeled great place to work. They fired him with 7 day PIP and no salary even for days he worked in december. No compensation. 1 day notice period. Please mark CFBR or like on LinkedIn for better reach for Naming and Shaming this company.


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vikrant-singh-59624a2a9_today-i-want-to-tell-you-about-a-lala-company-activity-7157379931843219457-YnjD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Help sharing this company. Friend fired with 7 day PIP.

Software Developer

LinkedIn influencers steal a GV post and then fight over who stole first

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhavishaggarwal_transgenders-share-special-connect-with-lord-activity-7194984283894128640-eL6i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

And he launched cloud services because LinkedIn  referred to him as 'they'? Lagta hai Elon bhai se kuch zyada hi inspired lag rahe hain

How come everything Bhavish launches these days are centered around India versus west?

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

Recently I was talking to a girl who was working a startup in BLR. She left the startup with some horrendous experiences. This startup was working from a startup hostel in BLR. Things she told me shook me. She was dating the founder.

So this founder who claims to be on his 2nd startup dates his own employees and then blackmails them.
The average age of his employees is 24. All these girls that he dates are not above 23/24

Apparently this guy has 2 court cases against him. One for fraud and one for a rape case. Both of them are not easily found online. He uses VC money to keep in under the hood.

The fraud case is about his first startup which was a stolen idea apparently. 

This guy’s whole life is fake.
He claims to be an IIT Madras dropout, but he's from some local college. 

There are rumours that one of the girls he dated tried to kill herself because he allegedly filmed them.

He also does not pay salaries for months to his employees but compensates by giving them expensive gifts.

He claims his parents are IAS officers but we checked and they are not. 

His last startup was around around AUTH and current one is around Fintech

Girls and boys stay away from working with such shady startups.

Tinder Swindler of BLR

Interesting, the whole story is about unknown man with unknown startup. Thanks for such an insightful post.

Product Manager

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KreditPE open letter to Zestmoney

Software Engineer

Startup founders have started coming to podcasts or they themselves started podcasts just to be in limelight, talk all about positives and planning for IPOs.
I have never seen these founders are asked about recent layoffs, removing benefits to employees or not making any profits at all.

“Ganda hai pr dhandha hai yeh”

Chuna lagao, chuna!

Fake Podcasts all over

Sales Manager

Saw this on Twitter today, found this interesting and loved the idea. 

The app is named - Jamm. A members-only social network that helps you meet all kinds of people over fun activities IRL. Tagline - ‘Never Have Another Boring Week’.

The idea behind this as per founder (Able Joseph) is to improve the social health/life of its members. The more like-minded the community, the nicer its interactions will be. 


Here’s how it works.
- Apply for membership
- Once accepted, pick an activity (board games, bike rides, etc.) and post a Jamm
- Receive requests from other members who are interested to be a part of your Jamm
- Curate the people you wish to bring together
- Coordinate with the Jammers on group chat
- Meet them IRL and have a good time

Interesting to see how they’ll be solving security challenges associated with meeting people. Also, I guess this could also turn out to be a hookup app.

What you guys think? 

Bengaluru peeps here - Have you used this yet?

Came across this interesting startup - Jamm. A members-only social network

Context: Took my parent for a Piles checkup as the issue was flaring up. The first thing they checked was my insurance coverage details. The consulting doctor (more of a quack) recommended immediate surgery as 'it may lead to much greater complication if left untreated'. Inwas ready to go for it but my spouse recommended we see more doctors. Both the other doctors (very reputed) said this doesnt need a surgery and that my parent would need some rest and palliative care and that it would be ok in a few weeks. This is what exactly happened.
Funny part - this was two years ago, but since my number was the registered number, I still get periodic calls asking me if I had decided to go ahead with the surgery and that Piles can only be managed with a surgery.
The founder in any case, from his prolific Linkedin usage, seems like a righteous jerk who would rather believe that employees should not be expect compensation but be as loyal as dogs.

Is Pristyn Care an unethical sham?

Business Development Manager

Its just sad to see so many content creators(personal branding experts being the most of them) utilize linkedin to promote their instagram photos with a wall of text that is completely unrelated.

What the heck is happening with Linkedin?

Any thoughts on this. Why do Founders always portray themselves as superheroes? Is normal job only meant for peasants like us?

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Another startup that could have been something had it not been for the bull market and Tiger investing unnecessarily. Over $66Mn raised, and now it's over.

Koo is shutting down

Copy cats. App should have been called Poo

Data Scientist

Startup founders who are trying to turn influencers are always trying to paint themselves as champions and superbeings while the real truth about being a Founder is that one always feels vulnerable. Is this behaviour by startup founders leading to TOXIC POSITIVITY?

Is narcissism and hallucinations a common trait among startup founders in India?

Came across this post by a VC - and he mentions a startup that is similar to zilingo and mentions that the startup is ‘pulling similar tricks as Zilingo’ - cooking the books. 

Does anyone have any insight about what is actually happening at Groyyo?

Even the idea of the LinkedIn post was copied from the Founder 😂

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