Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art made it on my reading list in part because of its impertinent title and in part because it is a self-help book that is masquerading as not a self-help book. …
A few months ago, some friends and I left a music festival in the Vegas desert at 2 AM to get a ride back to our hotel. We left 30 minutes before the last performance to beat the crowds to an Uber, hoping to snag a car before the networks…
This blogpost has been sitting in my inbox for two years now, awaiting a final read-through and edit. Since then JustDial bagged a Rs. 300cr round from investors and followed up with a successful IPO. …
Interviewing for a startup is very different from interviewing for a bigger company. I learnt this the hard way.
Having spent many years interviewing (and getting rejected by) countless Silicon Valley tech giants, I have always thought of job interviews as day-long ordeals, shuffling from office to office, waiting in…
Part 3 of 3- Takeaways
Advice for myself, if I ever decide to try building a company again.
Things I learnt about building a company
Part 2 of 3 — The Good, the bad and the ugly
The Good
I was very lucky in having worked with a fantastic team who was passionate about the company and treated it like their own. …
Part 1 of 3: An introduction
Almost ten months after we shut down operations at Chachii.com, I have sufficiently collected my thoughts to discuss the successes and failures of my first entrepreneurial experiment. …
After a year in which I sat through Chennai Express, Krrish 3 and Race 2, I have had just about enough of mainstream Bollywood’s underwhelming offerings. Not only do these movies have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, watching Saif Ali Khan drive a car off an exploding plane in mid-flight to…
