Add some color

The nearbuy team was at ISB this Tuesday, for a PrePlacement Talk.  We decided to follow an unorthodox application process.  We will not accept black and white resume. There needs to be some color added When you apply, you need to name one more candidate who...

Control doesn’t drive ownership

When things are not going as per plan the easiest thing to do is to gain control. To review everything. To approve everything. To become the system through which everything has to flow. If this process worked in the new world, things would never go wrong. How about...

Who am I?

Peter Thiel mentions his favorite interview question in “Zero to One” What is that one belief you have that very few people agree with you on?  Here is my response, Peter The best way to become great at something, is to do multiple things at the same...

The Little Book Of Big Things

At nearbuy, as we grow super fast (we have gone from 260 folks 3 months back to 540 people today), the need for communicating and ensuring consistency of our value system and beliefs hasn’t be higher before. I can spend time speaking and engaging folks, and I...

Your first reaction 

How you feel and how you react to this feeling is often different, and misunderstood to be the same  You feel hurt but your reaction is that it anger You feel scared but your reaction is that of control  You feel happy but your reaction is that of tears Only...