by Rajan Singh | Nov 12, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
The performance reviews are done. And you get an email announcing a big fat bonus. Yay! Then you hear the news – your colleague got 30% more! Now you hate the very idea of a bonus. Nay, you hate the whole world. Ah, life is so complicated! 🙂 –...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 11, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
While you ruminate about your past mistakes and worry about the troubles likely to befall you, the tea in front of you is getting cold. Drink that tea. And when you drink it, just drink tea — don’t do anything else. Savor it fully. Ultimately, that is what...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 8, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Once when I was returning home after a long trip, to surprise my daughter, I bought her a Nintendo game console (it used to be quite popular then). Also, I bought a bunch of other stuff. So when I reached home and showed her the Nintendo game, she was ecstatic. But as...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 7, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
In my last startup, after a marketing campaign, we were speculating about how many users we would acquire. Our guess waned between 2,000 and 4,000 users. Do you know how many we actually got? One. Yes — one, not 1,000. And this was not a random marketing...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 6, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When Byju’s acquired White Hat Jr for $300 million, folks on LinkedIn went crazy. “Good Lord — how could someone create so much value in just 18 months?” Today, the company is losing more than Rs 1,000 crores a year. And I won’t even get...