Make hay while the sun shines. He might just be good retirement planner

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Everybody was calling for him to be fired. And he just became a billionaire, wow...

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Everybody was calling for him to be fired. And he just became a billionaire, wow...- Grapevine

Justice for Parag

I am an ex twitter employee, I can vouch how Parag and Vijaya gave their heart and soul to create a platform which was safe and trustworthy. Bad business tricks and viciousness of Elon Musk took away everything from Twitter and its employees and made the platform a garbage.

Senior Manager

Business Development Manager

Well well..Look who is going with a fat pay check home amid layoffs

DevOps Engineer

I mean I get where he's coming from. I have seen those *day in the life of a ___* videos and always wondered what work do these people even do?
But isn't he also responsible for over hiring? That too for an industry that works on thin margins.

Am I the only one who found Spotify CEO's response to layoffs horsesh*t

- Deepinder Goyal has become a billionaire following a record rally in Zomato shares, which have surged over 300% since July 2023.
- Zomato's stock hit a new high of Rs230 on the BSE, boosting its market cap past Rs1.8 trillion and making Goyal India's richest professional manager with a net worth of Rs8,300 crore.
- The surge in stock is driven by expectations that Zomato's quick commerce business, Blinkit, will outperform peers and turn profitable sooner than anticipated.
- Analysts expect Blinkit to surpass Zomato's food delivery business in gross order value (GOV) and strengthen its market position, despite a longer path to sustainable EBITDA margins.
- Goldman Sachs values Blinkit at $13 billion, higher than Zomato's core food delivery business, predicting significant growth in GOV and EBITDA by FY29. 

 Source: Money Control

Zomato Founder-CEO Deepinder Goyal Joins Billionaire Club

One founder who truly inspires me!

- Founded Zomato in 2008 and was doing a completely different thing
- First business model failed. Did global expansion across many countries did not work out
- But created an excellent product: most reliable catalogue of restaurants and reviews
- Got into delivery after Swiggy and others
- Executes like a machine. Raised smaller rounds, cross Swiggy GMV, revenue, was first to get to unit profitability.
- BlinkIt acquisition
- Best startup IPO so far in India 

Truly the grit an entrepreneur must have. 16 years of building. It isn't easy, I am sure.

Corporate Strategist

Journalist

Ashneer is literally comparing himself with legendary Ceo

++and to keep our founder in the billionaires list.

Product Designer

What are our options if congress for some reason comes to power ?.

I have heard stories how the land was taken away from people and given to someone because they politically close to them during Indira Gandhi time . Any ideas how we can protect myself from this crap of policy that congress is planning ?

What are the options ? Wealth distribution scheme

Principal Engineer

What an insane journey this man has had!
feel sad though that FW will now be a fully american company with all senior leaders in america

Mathrubootham will now be spending more time on the long-term product vision, innovation and AI strategy.

Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham redesignated as executive chairman, Dennis Woodside takes charge as CEO

Girish  Mathrubootham steps down as Freshworks CEO

Product Marketing Manager

How does it work exactly? so i know they artificially place hair strands on your head but what I'm confused is the following,

1. You lose hair after hairtransplant is done and then hair regrow or something?
2. its not one and done, it takes about a year to show results? so does this main hair become natural or still cosmetic/fake?
3. is it not permanent or it is? 
4. Do i need to get it every 5 years or something?
6. why do actors with HT hide their skull when off guard, Ranbir Kapoork, Amitabh Bacchan etc? 
7. Will the hair regrow and can we get haircuts as one would?

Batado yar

Anyone has a Hair Transplant?

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Most of us here on GV are in the corporate boat. Some experienced, some new. I think most of us would not have dreamt of working in our jobs in childhood, and almost all of us landed into some role after our education and continued to grow after. While you continue to work for that next promotion or hike, when do you get the feeling of making it in corporate?

When did/would you feel you’ve made it?

When I don’t hate my job. That’s it. That’s my parameter.

Marketing Creative

Product Manager

From: Sundar Pichai
To: Google

"Hi everyone

I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong.

Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We're already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts. No Al is perfect, especially at this emerging stage of the industry's development, but we know the bar is high for us and we will keep at it for however long it takes. And we'll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale.

Our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is sacrosanct. We've always sought to give users helpful, accurate, and unbiased information in our products. That's why people trust them. This has to be our approach for all our products, including our emerging Al products.

We'll be driving a clear set of actions, including structural changes, updated product guidelines, improved launch processes, robust evals and red-teaming, and technical recommendations. We are looking across all of this and will make the necessary changes.

Even as we learn from what went wrong here, we should also build on the product and technical announcements we've made in Al over the last several weeks. That includes some foundational advances in our underlying models e.g. our 1 million long-context window breakthrough and our open models, both of which have been well received.

We know what it takes to create great products that are used and beloved by billions of people and businesses, and with our infrastructure and research expertise we have an incredible springboard for the Al wave. Let's focus on what matters most: building helpful products that are deserving of our users' trust.

-Sundar"

The first internal comms on Gemini from Sundar

They probably need to layoff more dei and woke teams

Founder

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/gagan-biyani-was-fired-as-udemy-chairman-heres-how-he-converted-the-pink-slip-into-a-success-story/articleshow/98697150.cms

Amazing Lessons to learn from once fired Chairman from Billion Dollar Company Udemy

Analyst

After a confirmed research, following resignations are happening at Unacademy, resulting in a massive instability in the organisation

1. CHRO
2. COO
3. CTO
4. VP IT & ADMIN
5. CBO ( JM)
6. HEAD OF OFFLINE CENTERS
7. GENERAL COUNSEL
8. IAS COFOUNDER


Adding to this, following BU's have been shut

1. Content Growth
2. Coheshve 
3. Next Level

TRULY SAD TO SEE THE HOUSE OF CARDS FALLING DOWN.

Series of resignations at Unacademy 👾

Program Manager

Call it day !

Just wanted to give some updates now that it has been 1 month since the last post

1) Senior Leadership from Tech (3) , a senior director from Product , Finance Head have all resigned. Strategy team has been dissolved. 
2) There are more people in the pipeline and will get more clarity by month end.
3) Everyone over the CTC of 60 lakh has been asked about the revenue that they bring in and based on that, their position is being reconsidered.
4) All contract workers have been terminated. Interns have been told that they won't be receiving PPOs.
5) Senior Management Has been asked to take 20% paycuts. 
6) Even at Junior level, people have been asked to take pay cuts or resign.
7) Lots of tools used in tech are being removed and AWS subscription has also been revised.


Meanwhile HRs have been celebrating on slack channels that Yubi has been ranked in Top 25 companies for career development :/

Rampant Negativity at Yubi Part 2

Growth Manager

The more I read about him, the more intrigued I am. Seems like a grounded guy 

I honestly had a bias against him as the brand he built did a few things that weren't right to be honest. Wouldn't have maybe been the case if they would've toned down their growth rate to grow ethically and organically.

Took enough risk as the sole founder, understood the VC game and made 800 crores personally from the acquisition.

But listening to him makes me change my perspective a bit. Personally for me, I've always taken bad risks and he seems to have left a lot of career opportunities that others would die for. He's explored spirituality (he quotes his personal tragedy) travelled etc. 

I don't know or have vetted his current work, but he seems to be giving back to the society now, settled in Goa - https://youtu.be/S5G9H5QJ368?si=O5E4Sj95hs37jSpx. what are your thoughts? 

Isn't this what many people are searching for (greater purpose)? atleast the ones I know in my circle

Karan Bajaj is the OG! Ik that this is controversial

Another consumer tech startup bites the dust :/

https://entrackr.com/2023/10/ex-myntra-ceos-startup-virgio-shuts-down-after-raising-37-mn/

Virgio shuts down a year into raising $37Mn

Get a tag(college/company) -> Open a startup -> Get Funding (even seed stage is fine) -> Burn money -> sell or shut down startup. 
  
 Fastest way to accumulate wealth in today's time.

Software Developer

Declared for the states: We’ll pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days).
We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting.

We’ll pay 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time. 
We’ll be offering 6 months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected. 

Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices.

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