{"id":2512,"date":"2015-05-15T04:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officechai.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:15:12","slug":"rahul-yadav-challenges-zomato-ola-ceos-to-give-up-their-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/rahul-yadav-challenges-zomato-ola-ceos-to-give-up-their-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Yadav Challenges Zomato, Ola CEOs To Give Up Their Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 11:56 on a Thursday night. It has been an eventful few days for\u00a0Rahul Yadav. He has resigned as the CEO of Housing.com with a dramatic letter. \u00a0He has questioned<\/a><\/span> the intellectual capabilities of his investors. He has apologized for questioning the intellectual capabilities of his investors. He’s trended on twitter.\u00a0He’s uploaded a half naked picture of himself showing a disdainful middle finger to the world. He’s given away his 200 crore fortune in a move<\/a> <\/span>that made the Indian startup industry draw its collective breath. And then, on Thursday night,\u00a0he posted this on his Facebook wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All his previous actions seemed to show a contempt for the conventional, and a burning desire to succeed. Yadav was a man in a hurry. Life is too short to waste my time with incompetent people, his resignation letter had said. He had no time for civilities, and little\u00a0time for pretense. He seemed focussed, blinkered even, on his suitably grandiose mission of changing the way the world finds places to live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This latest act flies in the face of all that. The language is unnecessarily acerbic, the\u00a0\u00a0tone unnecessarily confrontational. The “challenge” is thrown at two CEOs who head companies which do not compete with Housing in any way. The CEOs chosen are both public figures themselves, and are carefully tagged on Facebook. The self congratulation (“noble act”) is also hard to miss. This ice bucket-esque stunt is tailor-made to get a reaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rahul is no longer batting for Housing. From being someone who’d do anything for this vision, from\u00a0locking horns with rigid investors to making big bets, he’s suddenly positioned himself as a champion of the masses, a hermit CEO\u00a0willing to dole out his wealth his to employees.\u00a0His mantra\u00a0no longer seems to to be to find houses for people – it’s\u00a0become to find newer ways to stay in the news.<\/span><\/p>\n

This update has nothing to do with Housing. It has everything to do with Rahul Yadav. And it is hard to tell what Rahul Yadav cares about more at this point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After declaring that he would give distribute his company’s shares among his employees, Rahul Yadav has challenged rival CEOs to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,254],"tags":[81,124],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-startups","tag-housing-com","tag-rahul-yadav"],"yoast_head":"\nRahul Yadav Challenges Zomato, Ola CEOs To Give Up Their Shares<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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