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...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 5, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Do you know that even the world’s top footballers have their superstitions? Superstitions are psychological defense mechanisms that give a sense of safety (albeit a misplaced one). Let us say a footballer plays a wonderful match, where he scores goal after goal....
by Rajan Singh | Nov 4, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Before I first landed on the IIT campus, I thought it would have a really glitzy atmosphere. After all, most professors had PhDs from US universities and would have seen a good life. But instead, I saw them all moving on bicycles, wearing shabby clothes and chappals....
by Rajan Singh | Nov 1, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
This might surprise you. Do you know the one productivity hack that lowers our productivity and overwhelms us? Packing your calendar back-to-back with tasks and to-dos. I know it sounds quite ironic but let me explain using an analogy. Imagine that you want to...
