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Where are the thought leaders when we need them to speak up?

Where are the thought leaders when we need them to speak up?- Grapevine

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Thought leader’s thoughts not leading anywhere

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👇🏽 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.

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Would love to learn about people who make a real difference in this podcast + publicity bubble

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Two months ago I posted this rant on Grapevine (https://share.gvine.app/CLkpBuEqcCvrzKvx6) which I think is one of the most viral posts on the platform.

Since then I took a break, learned Vipassana, went to the mountains, read, and reflected. Here are some truth bombs that have been exploding in my head

1) There is a leadership crisis

Is it me or do today's self-proclaimed leaders just suck? Look around Grapevine: insecure toxic managers forcing people back to the office, overhiring CEOs who don't know WTF to do, and founders just abandoning ship. 

"Leaders" and founders today are about as disconnected from reality as the political class, because like politicians most of them are privileged, sheltered, and already wealthy.

2) Technological innovation doesn't mean progress. 

I couldn't laugh harder when I saw the Indus Valley report basically saying that maybe all of us VCs overestimated how much money we could make funding lending and consumer apps. 

Maybe funding lending apps that "open up credit for the poor" isn't sustainable when the rate of interest is >18%?

Technological innovation doesn't always mean real-world progress. A lot of times, it just ends up perpetuating and amplifying pre-existing inequality. 

3) Endless growth toward nothing 

Most of India's startup money comes from the West. Most of that money was just printed to repeatedly get out of an economic crisis. That's it. There was no great vision to fund the future of humanity behind all this new capital. Just Central Bankers and Presidents pressing the "Create Money" button to delay the inevitable.

Most of us here owe our wealth to Easy Money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw

PS: A book, that completely flipped my worldview during this time is this: https://www.amazon.in/Debt-First-Years-David-Graeber/dp/0143422715. I urge all fellow foot soldiers of capitalism to read this.

Until the next rant, stay sane, safe, and debt-free!

Follow-up to the most liked Grapevine post ever

Founders be sharing quotes about life, learning and all sorts of things on social media, but when you see them in real, you'll get a clear sense of ego, pride and "I know it all" vibe, so clear in the way they talk. Please be a human first, founder second. 

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

Norman Schwarzkopf

Founders in today's era

Why no one is talking about this. Are we just Resources? There’s no value to life?

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It’s hard time for the community with these kind of asshole founders enjoying limelight with articles and media sitting quiet on this. 
They have fired almost everyone with their crooked and cruel strategy. 
Lame founders who micro manage and build strategies to fire people. They have a layer of puppets under them and make the whole plan to fire the employees- bhai itna mehnat kyu karte ho yaar, seedha muh pe bol do. 
They’re burning investor money and despite being productive laying these foundations for firing. Layoff everyone then, those puppets desite taking tons of bad decisions are being protected just because they lick their ass and pound them to be rockstars. 
They’ve hired hot girls under them for timepass and so called secret parties. Complete BS. 

I’m still surprised itna karne ke bad they are being celebrated what a country we live in.

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I work with a tech influencer , he is literally below 20% of our companies talent. But has strong social profile. Now he is charging 2999 for tech and career guidance. All the freshmen out of college are paying to get guidance from the guy who is pretty average in his own skills. 😂 like WTF

Dev community should come together to counter didi Bhaiya of twitter/LinkedIn

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New silent layoffs at the end of November. Some teams are merging. 

So team members will be moved to new teams and then laid off 😞

Unacademy will now reach an irrelevant status like vedantu etc

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Why no one speaks or talks about corporate corruption ? Is this an accepted culture?

Which are some innovative mission driven CEOs/founder of startups or even established companies, who are solving a big problem very innovatively.

Also who are some globally such companies currently

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Recently McKinsey employee committed suicide. Now, CAM partner berating three bright associates for doing a job right because the partners looked like idiots.

Fuck your seniority. GenZ believes in meritocracy.

Leaks: Shocking email sent by Partner berating Associates for doing right job.

email sounds right to me, looks like a senior calling out mediocrity 
  
 maybe talking to them in person and in a professional way would have been better, but still LGTM

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People in the firm what is happening? Is this the end of edtech and BYJUs? What went wrong?

Hearing really bad news from BYJUs, firm has silently laid off upto 15-20 K people in months

Do you agree?

The storm is not AI.  
 It's the uncountable number of fresh graduates standing behind you to do the same job.  
 But due to AI and online resources the gap between you and them is very small. 
  
 And companies have realised that they can always cull the herd and still an infinite number of near qualified people are ready to step in. 
  
 And it will slowly spiral to the bottom.

Sad reality of corporate - What can be done to change it?

I've seen this only a couple of times as a hiring manager. 
  
 It was a bloody dogfight with the TA teams and Business Finance to get approvals to come somewhere near the market parity comp for experience. 
  
 The usual culprit is folks who don't speak up and demand that they be paid for the value they are adding ti the org.  Mostly due to a severe inferiority complex and lack of confidence to ask!

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I have a startup idea to start a community service. The idea is to help people who don't want to marry under their parents or societal pressure. The service will provide counseling to parents, normalize singlehood, mediator between the customer and everyone involved. The service can be extended to almost anything aligning with this. 
The idea is that not many people can provide good arguments in their favour or just don't want to put their views. We will have the best and brightest people to provide support with expertise on psychology, societal behavior, debate etc. The idea could be totally ridiculous but I want to know the community's thoughts on this. Go on. Roast me if you feel like.

Startup idea to create community support for people who don't want to marry

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

Despite being #1 in population, I find vaccuum in Imp Fields like
- Politics - no great politician
- Media - no great journalist 
- Music - very few great artists like A.R.R
- Movies - Bollywood is struggling 
- Sports - Except cricket other all sports suffering 
- Innovation- Hardly any pathbreaking companies.. 
& So on… If you agree what are the reasons for this? Are we just focused on playing it safe and earning money ? Or there are no role models to follow?

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