🅱️ravan Tickoo: 19 Shades of Grey

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.

Recently gave an interview at Jupiter Money for Senior PM role: 1. There is an exploratory call to judge the fit - experience, skill and culture wise. 2. I was told there will be 3-4 rounds of interview and after that they will decide based on cumulative feedback of all the rounds 3. My first 2 rounds were scheduled - product sense and product strategy rounds. 4. First, The round got scheduled thrice. 5. I finally did my product sense round and to me it was one of the the best case study interview I gave. To the proof I also have complete documentation of the live case study I solved and also showed that to few senior product leaders in the industry. They also validated that that it was really well solved. 6. Next day I was told my round didn’t go as well and they are even cancelling the other rounds. There was no precise feedback which is anyway not expected. I communicated that according to the process I was told that all the rounds would happen and then a decision would be taken. 7. They ridiculed that. To me it was the case of strong personal bias where interviewer preferred other candidates because of his alumni or for other reasons or strongly did not like me. To avoid personal biases usually organisations do parallel rounds at senior level and take a decision based on cumulative feedback. In hindsight, it’s good it didn’t happen. Better to join a merit based organisation then biased and politics led.

Why?

No points for guessing his name

Not going to lie but Ashneer was right, Mankur Marikoo ka naam saath mei mat lena, tu mujhe gaali se se but naam saath mei mat lena( because he’s the biggest scam artist after Dakshat Shrivastava) Just like Vauld, Marikoo turns out to be the biggest sell out of all time yet again. With Fraud Shamani and Chetan Bro-goat following him, they promoted a scam Startup Conference in Noida stating you can raise funding there, that too within 3 days. Turns out you have to pay 💰 a boatload of cash to get into the conference. Now it turns out to be a scam when the organisers fled away with the money. It’s a pity that people follow these charlatans who masquerade as superior beings while their true character is revealed in moments like this..