Hypothesis validation is a regular exercise, just like a product development is always a WIP. Your product is never complete. And successful companies are those companies which keep on improvising their products. So those hypotheses as we go along in the journey, we keep on asking them the right questions to really probe their own thinking in terms of their product validation.
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Your capacity to be patient with long cycles of innovation, and your ability to disengage from the excitement of investing back to the thinking in 10-year cycles. I think that’s something that if it doesn’t come from experience, it has to come from borrowed experience. […]
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While it’s a very tragic year for many, you don’t even have to explain to anybody, everybody understands. Whereas in those situations like when I was going through fundraising, and the world changed, and suddenly the value of your company was dramatically different. Few people outside of your ecosystem could understand what you were talking about, right? Where it’s here today, we have a situation that everybody understands. […]
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Messaging will be a foundational element for a wide range of services. And Gupshup is in a position to enable all of that. […]
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The core purpose of Tesla is to build and sell electric cars. Every car they sell, brings them money, and moves them towards their mission. So, we don’t invest in things where the mission and the business model are different. The mission and the business model have to be perfectly aligned. […]
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I wanted as many OEM brands to be part of this journey. And that was a very thoughtful decision. Because in the past, for companies, which had failed, I had seen that one of the biggest things is not getting the OEM connection and integration and support on time. So we worked with both Alliance and BMW and requested them, can you come together? […]
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You should have the opportunity to learn from failures. And that comes only when you are able to completely Own your decision, execute on it, see the full cycle, and actually face those failures to go back and revisit the quality of your decision and improve your framework. […]
Our biggest USP has been that, we’ve built this company very organically, and have grown largely by word of mouth, and what we call zero dollar marketing. We’re very proud to have disrupted the category by proving that you can build a large travel app primarily on product and content. […]
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Of course, there are 20 different things that can go wrong. But are there two things that can go right? Can we articulate it now, and maybe that will change, but every time we should ask ourselves, what are those two things, and then those two things can change as the company builds on growing? That’s how we look at it. […]
