JumpyPancake
JumpyPancake

How to be a toxic founder?

  • Remove people from Townhall meet because there camera is not switched on.

  • Do an app revamp because he gets cognitive overload, and not users.

  • Forces decisions without an objective measurement for outcome.

Guess, who!

17mo ago
WigglyPanda
WigglyPanda

A toxic founder is one who is not paying salaries to the team while enjoying perks and secondaries themselves.

Nothing listed above qualifies as toxic. Entrepreneurship is a rough sport, don’t confuse strength for toxicity.

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Are you a founder?

WigglyPanda
WigglyPanda

That wouldn’t make my opinion biased in any form. Founder or not!

Answer to your question is Yes.

SparklyWaffle
SparklyWaffle

He is talking about Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy! He did this yesterday.

FloatingCupcake
FloatingCupcake

Lol, his surname with such actions would make sense to Malayalis xD

GoofyPancake
GoofyPancake

Slice wala?

SillyMochi
SillyMochi

Same hai kya? Slice wala bhi

GoofyPancake
GoofyPancake

I have not talked to anyone who has interacted with Munjal directly so I don't know how bad it is with Unacademy. But Slice is a company running on one person's whim. The CEO acts childish, throws tantrums, etc. Upper management describes "managing and tempering bajaj" as one of their core responsibilities.

BubblyBagel
BubblyBagel

No clue. Please enlighten. Sounds male - is/has a dcik.

SquishyNarwhal
SquishyNarwhal
Zepto17mo

Ooooo you should be happy ye app tech sector heavy hai, varna twitter hota toh Bhai abhi tumhare QT pe QT ratio pe ratio hote

CosmicLlama
CosmicLlama

That's true... In Twitter people bend over backwards to prove their liberal cred.

DerpyTaco
DerpyTaco

This seems like a post about GM from Unacademy. Epitome of toxicity

PeppyNarwhal
PeppyNarwhal
Swiggy17mo

Waiting for the news of his company to shut down or if he has raised funds very soon he will be forced to resign.

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Kunal Shah?

SqueakyUnicorn
SqueakyUnicorn

Apna?

GroovyPretzel
GroovyPretzel

I wouldn't say so. My understanding is that Nirmit got into an echo chamber. After the March restructuring, when I wanted to ask some questions during townhall, some director level folks have interrupted, saying literally "Wo toh founder hai bhai, market samajh hone liye wo Apple chod kar factory pe bhi kaam kiya. Who else knows better than him?"

Nirmit himself isn't toxic, but is not capable of understanding that he has built an echo chamber around him.

GroovyPretzel
GroovyPretzel

But yes, everything except the first point happened with him in the leadership.

DerpyBoba
DerpyBoba

Cred,byjus or unacademy

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut

Whos is this self centric famous person?

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