Scamster and fraud who pretends to know it all

Product Manager

He looks fishy to me, would like to know more this if you have worked in his company

Co-Founder

Intern

He lingers here in this platform too 🥲

Lawyer

Private Equity

🤯 
 Are you joining any VM's company? Which one?

He has disclosed 4 but I doubt that there would be more. Check his Twitter bio

Software Developer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

How’s Varun Mayya as a founder?

How’s Varun Mayya as a founder?- Grapevine

👇🏽 who are some founders/leaders that you actually like and believe will be able to make great things happen. 

They don’t need to be famous.

🪡 Founders - who get it right?

Sriharsha from Swiggy. Doesn’t believe in personal pr, branding. Busy in building.

Growth Manager

Head Of Growth

Hello everyone,

I'm Varun, the co-founder of Mesa School of Business. We’re Asia’s first startup focused business school focused on fostering the next generation of startup leaders in India.

Prior to Mesa, I was a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon in Seattle, and did my MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Mesa, my thoughts on higher education, 0-to-1 building, amongst other things.

Ask me anything! :)
I'll be back at 5 pm and start answering.

I'm Varun, Co-Founder at Mesa School of Business. Ask me anything!

Founder

Your views about Varun Mayya?

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Literally, every single Founder I've encountered here seems to be an old, regressive, hard-headed boomer who hates the younger generation for their freedom.
 
Go through some DINK or WFH or Salary Rant posts and you'll be able to spot them. They are rigid in their mindset and call anyone who disagrees a degenerate, entitled, and (my personal favourite) 'influenced by the western media' lol.

Let's just ignore these morons and keep on bettering our life

Why is every single "Founder" here an a*shole?

Backend Engineer

Go ahead, ask if we pushed founders to commit fraud.

AMA: Worked at tier 2 VC - got in post a few years of workex and a tier 2 Indian uni

What stops you from *stealing* an idea that you found mind-blowing from a pitch of a startup trying to get a seed funding?

Software Engineer

Hey Everyone,

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO at Inc42. We are India’s #1 startup media & intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup leaders & operators through our incisive reporting and industry-leading executive programs like FounderX.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Inc42, why we’ve built FounderX and more!

Ask Me Anything :)
I’ll be back at 5PM and answer all your questions!

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO of Inc42. Ask me anything!

VC with 5+ yrs of exp - AMA

Community Manager

I will go first: 
Supam Maheswari, 3 unicorns, 2 of them are profitable (FirstCry, Xpressbees) (Globalbees)

Kishore Biyani, founder BigBazaar

Who are the people in Indian Startup space you greatly regard to?

Context: I do have an offer - to join the second cohort. I have 1.5 years of work ex at micro impact fund. Currently I’m working with a great early stage fund as an intern in the investment team.
I have been having seconds thoughts about joining the program since few days.

Eventually goal is to break into VC post the program. Would love to get candid thoughts and feedback? 

Thanks a lot!

Is Mesa School of Business worth the investment (time, money, etc)

Investment Associate

(This pic is just a reference, my query is a bit generic)

I usually see founders make loud claims of their company/brand as baby but when it comes to team shoots, they make everyone else wear the brand but keep themselves far away from it. 

I understand, they want to create the employee-employer difference (against family narrative) but to me it's a bit strange. Any explanations, sharing on this?

Founders dilemma?

Is this behaviour by VCs very common in Indian startup ecosystem? Have heard of more such stories from founder friends

Project Manager

https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2023/may/13/edtech-major-byjus-raises-rs-2000-crore-in-fresh-funding-from-us-investment-firm-2574679.amp

As a founder is he doing his job!! A competent founder.

Senior Product Designer

Do you guys think founder market fit is as important as it's glorified?

Any examples or counter-examples of companies that went big without any founder background? I'll start

Razorpay

Importance of Founder-market fit

Product Owner

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Having worked for both early stage startups and large corporations, the work satisfaction I get by working for startups is unmatched.

I’m currently identifying few of the startups to work for as an experienced software engineer.

What are the metrics and parameters to look for?

There are some brilliant minds here who share their awesome knowledge, your thoughts will be appreciated!

How to identify a good startup to work for?

Consultant

As a vanity Indian founder of a startup, you have overcome certain very complicated social issues to reach here. 

While this is important, founders also engage in mindless hedonistic activities while all throughout claiming the company in loss or market crash. 

1. I engage in individual interests selflessly while the employee might have to go through a pay cut or salary hold up. 
For ex: Founders minting expensive tickets for horse polo or football finals abroad, the same month employees were laid off.

2. I engage Celebrity Warlords and build fancy academies to bring stardom while mercilessly laying off people and trampling over their familial relations. 
Throughout I ensure through PR that my company forecasts are always on top. 

3. I maintain a fancy following in the office who sings Bhajans on me and my life and stories.
For ex: They prefer passouts from small towns or Tier 2- 3 colleges so they accept without questions.

4. I need a hot female in the office who can help compensate for my emasculated and punctured ego.
For ex: this lady will get hikes and unconditional promotion in a year or so. 

5. I hire more than I can afford so this is my way of buffering and validating my own immature decisions. This way I don't lose out on supposed opportunities but I ensure that my company always looks buoyant and alive. 


6. I don't believe in any political correctness but if the business needs it I will engage people to write for my company as promoting ideas and ideologies superfluously. 

7. I want my organisation to be a vanity circus rather than for hiring quality folks. I market as hiring for diversity but this is just the PR stunt.

Vanity Founders of Indian startups.

Journalist

AMA- 15 yrs exp across consulting, VC & Growth stage company. Now a founder

Unacademy will be laying off 30% of its workforce this week. The list of people who will be laid off has been finalised and received signoff from Gaurav & Roman. 

Sad State of Affairs.

Unacademy fresh Layoffs 😶‍🌫️

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

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