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Episode Synopsis "Building a Winning Team ft. Arnav Kumar - Leap "
The Indian Startup Ecosystem, in its current avatar - is competitive as ever. VC money is flowing in, companies are mushrooming everyday, multiple founders are tapping the same target market / business models and are building replica products. In such an environment, how do you win as a company? Arnav Kumar, Co-founder & CEO of Leap believes that "winning" as a framework should be incorporated into the smallest things that a company does. Hire people who love to win, enable managers to define what winning looks like, build a "winning" culture, do whatever it takes for your employees to win! His startup is modelled after a winning sports team apparently. Leap is Arnav's third startup, and has raised USD 80 Mn in venture funding in just two years since inception. He was also the co-founder and CEO of GoZoomo - a used car marketplace he started back in 2014. He has seen both sides of the spectrum - having worked as a VC with SAIF Partners (now known as Elevation Capital) for a couple of years. In this episode, he talks about his transformation as a CEO from his first company to his current one, the way he went about building a culture at leap, hiring the first 25 employees, traits he looks for while hiring, his outlook on the current hiring scenario in India, biggest challenges in hiring, retention as a moat, learnings from his stint as a VC, entrepreneurship as a career, and much more. Tune in for some golden insights!
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