Aneesh Reddy of Capillary on being a bully
“Things became so bad around 2012 that one of my co-founders came to me and said I was bullying everyone around,” Aneesh Reddy, co-founder of Capillary Technologies, told me while recording this episode of Outliers podcast. With over Rs 60 crore in the bank raised from investors such as Sequoia and a secondary share sale […]
Ravi Venkatesan asks people to stop looking for jobs, focus on timeless skills and become self employed
After quitting his job as Microsoft India chairman, Ravi Venkatesan spent few months working with a core team of former colleagues on a startup idea. Just before an investor was about to write a cheque, he realized he wasn’t passionate enough and backed out. It was the second time he was bitten by the startup […]
Uday Kotak keeps awake every night wondering whether he will have the bank next morning
At 59, Uday Kotak banks on over three-decades of business acumen in the financial services world to build the future, and keeps awake at night wondering if he will have his bank the next morning. For incumbent entrepreneurs such as Kotak, the forces of technology disruption are not science fiction anymore. In this episode of […]