Why all of a sudden I'm seeing roast tweets on Consultants (especially from McKinsey)? Need sauce...

Software Engineer

Can someone explain this at a deeper level ?(beyond the ppt specialist and 26 hours workday stereotyping of consultants )

Growth Manager

hey hey hey its a good life at mckinsey tbh

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Vinod Khosla is a savage 😂

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Vinod Khosla is a savage 😂- Grapevine

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The man's a legend, and also brutally candid about his ilk.

https://x.com/abhi_agarwal4/status/1715021893219078569?s=46&t=nRD_q4JdZxNQ0LE5Wo1afg 

He's also a bit of an ass himself for doing this: 

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/09/california_sues_khosla/

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Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

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Investment Associate

👇🏽 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.

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Head of Growth

I'd like to see Shantanu Deshpande from BSC, Nikhil Kamath from Zerodha, Turakhia brothers, Vinay Khosla.

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Product Owner

Who do we think are the stupidest VC's in India/Globally? Funding batshit crazy companies with negligible diligence or thought 

I'll go first - an orange and black striped animal + global

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Investor

Link to the video: https://x.com/thethomasjacob/status/1715836007835218371?s=20

Any founders/ VC here? Do you agree or disagree with what Khosla said?

Product Manager

Harsh again in news for frauds! Similar pattern as byjus 🥹

Grapevine team, we have had great AMAs before. Who's next? Can we suggest some?

Consultant

● "70-Hour Workweeks and Peanuts" - It's Not Just "How Markets Work"
Claiming that grueling work hours and low wages are intrinsic to free markets oversimplifies a complex issue. Capitalism should mean fair exchange, not exploitation.

● "Founders' Fortunes vs. Employee Pennies" - Rethinking Entrepreneurial Rewards

Rewarding risk is valid, but amassing vast fortunes by underpaying employees raises ethical questions. Capitalism should be about equitable rewards, not just personal gain.

●"Don't Blame, Analyze the System" - Seeking Systemic Improvement

Critiquing capitalism isn't a personal attack; it's about refining the system. Understanding its flaws allows us to make it fairer for everyone.

●"Critique, Don't Opt Out" - Working Towards a Better Capitalism

Suggesting one should avoid capitalism if they criticize it oversimplifies the issue. Critique is a call for reform, not rejection. It's about making capitalism more equitable, not abandoning it.

No offense to the author, but the excessive toxicity that some folks spread across social media, be it on Twitter or LinkedIn, with others blindly hopping on board, really highlights how we sometimes let our critical thinking slide.

This is now becoming toxic!

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Sam Altman fired from OpenAi

What made it worst? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What's the worst company you have worked for?

Indian VC memes

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

Founder

Several other founders out there full of immaturity, short sightedness and god complexes. Have you met any of them?

Dukaan is not the first. Are there other founders that people should be wary of?

Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola just reacted aggressively to a complain-y tweet from comedian Kunal Kamra.

Bhavish vs Kunal on X/Twitter

Product Marketing Manager

[Thread] Why does every founder I know hate VCs to the core?

It’s considered immature to speak negatively of your past employers. But i am going to share some anyway. 

Used to work at Oyo with Ritesh - directly. Havent seen a more deluded personality - high headed, pretentious and above all, bipolar. He used to speak so rudely at times that it makes you question if the money is worth it. I have often wanted to tell some people - if he invested all the softbank funding into Nifty, LPs would have had a decent return than the ever failing IPO attempts. 

I am so glad the valuation reality kicked in and humbled these founders down. At the end of the day though they amassed a lot of wealth. But at what cost. 

Eager to hear on Byju BKLora.

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