| My Post comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711960 downvoted on Hackernews I wear it as a badge of honor. Unethical and unsustainable companies like Uber get USD 40 Bil valuation by being led by arrogant misogynistic CEOs when they condone looking up user data including journalists http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-fa... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-ube... Two reputed (understatement) publications decrying them, while CEO is arrogant and still does not fire Emil And then this happens http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/12/indian-wo... While they claim they have extensive background tests for drivers. Investors reward with a 40 Billion valuation, which is more than Infosys valuation a 33 year old company employing 200,000 people, bringing a lot of poor people out of poverty and into middle/upper middle class (and many such companies like TCS, TechM etc) SV VCs and in general VCs if you are focussed on companies which are cool and provide high growth and high rates of signups (the new eyeballs) refer to what happened to secret https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/whats-happening-with-secret/ and pile on in news companies (dude you guys are like retail investors, Zynga, Groupon...unsustainable companies but a pile on) I believe in building sustainable businesses which provide employees, founders, and eventual shareholders consistent returns over a period of time I will never put a Zynga founder Marc Pincus in the same league as NRN. The difference they made to the world is levels (think exponential) apart I would rather drill, toil, sweat it out than just hype out, I say with conviction as many companies in my space (mobile, cloud, Big data) did fail or sold out after creating a hype @Uber with 40 Bill ur not going to make a mark in India. |