Launching Random Podcasts just to stay relevant.

Every random founder is now a guru of some sort trying to monetise their content. I used to really look forward to stories from indian founders and their journeys. Hardly any founder is genuine. We really need some podcasts like a16z, acquired, brand wars for real insights/stories. I can only think of think school which is doing podcasts/videos closer to the firangi ones. Any podcast recommendations which you did not find faffy or global gyaani?

I started hating his podcast after Razorpreneur, it was more like ameero ka Vivek bindra lol

NextLevel has entered maintenance mode. Friends working on it have kind of confirmed. Idk why they even started this product. There was zero need for it, but management just HAD to have their way. Everyone working on NextLevel has basically given up at this point. We're in maintenance mode, just waiting for the official announcement. The product roadmap was a joke from day one. Instead of focusing on something actually useful, they kept adding random bells and whistles. Oh, let's make it like Gas app with polling! Let's throw in some Inshorts-style news! 🙄 Here's a pro tip: copying features from 3 different products doesn't magically create one great product. It's like they threw spaghetti at the wall and hoped something would stick. This is a lesson for anyone trying to build in the consumer space. You can pour all the resources you want into something, but if your thinking is fundamentally flawed, you're just burning the money. Management needs to actually listen to people who know what they're talking about. But nah, they'd rather chase their pet projects and ego trips.

Of late, with Koo shutting down, Unacademy in the rafters, I've seen really intelligent, logical folks stand behind the founders of such moronic companies. Is the act of building shit, money burning companies with no use , more important than not building something in today's time?

Though in all probability, what you've already heard is true.

Silent Layoffs in Classplus At its peak Classplus employed about 800 employees which is now down to about 300 but you'd never see this in news because they have been strategically laying off employees on high salaries one by one. Just today 4 people have been asked to leave (that I know of). They very smartly either shift people to textbook and then ask them to leave from there or directly ask them to leave. There's no PIP. The founders are busy with setting up a new college, for some reason. Most of Classplus core business is just flat, people are asked to just maintain the business. It is losing big clients to competition. I don't know what the outlook of the company looks like but it's not looking good.

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!

Lot of founders and techies are jumping into this creator space, what might be their motivation to do this

What is with these loss making startup founders who give bucketloads of gyaan despite their ventures making losses galore. Gaurav of Unacademy wrote a thread and nitpicked on Byju’s yet everyone is aware of the ground reality of operations at Unacademy. Link to tweet - https://x.com/gauravmunjal/status/1806402269874999492?s=46