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aaditya

@aaditya

DeepTech/Enterprise/Cloud/DevTools Advisor @peakxvpartners. Previously VP/GM @Nutanix Calm. Co-founder/CEO/CTO @calm_io, acquired by Nutanix. Views personal.

Joined January 2007

aaditya
@aaditya
May 19, 2025
Back in the @calm_io days (perhaps a decade ago) we were interviewing a candidate. They were at 6 LPA comp. They passed all the technical rounds with flying colours and the final part was salary negotiation. We had a policy of never asking for current salary or expectations,
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aaditya
@aaditya
Jan 7, 2017
The ever lovable P G Wodehouse:
aaditya
@aaditya
May 19, 2025
Replying to @aaditya
Another policy we had was if a current employee got a better offer we never matched it. If the manager thought their market rate was higher the question asked was, why didn’t you fix it in last cycle? Now you can’t do hot fixes to salaries. No exceptions were made. Rationale
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aaditya
@aaditya
May 19, 2025
Replying to @aaditya
Another thing we did well was controlling salary compression: if we made a higher than current role band offer to close a candidate we had to bump up everyone in that role immediately. Not in the next cycle, but immediately. If we couldn’t afford that then we couldn’t made that
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aaditya
@aaditya
May 19, 2025
Replying to @aaditya
For a very long time we also had everyone’s comp on an open Google sheet. At least till 15-20 people size. Then it kind of got difficult.
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aaditya
@aaditya
Oct 3, 2018
Landed in SF, beginning new innings as Nutanix US employee. Excited, pumped (and apprehensive!)
aaditya
@aaditya
Sep 6, 2020
Something my daughter drew 😍
aaditya
@aaditya
Oct 29, 2019
One of the benefits of naming the Roomba ‘John Wick’ is the notifications
aaditya
@aaditya
Apr 21, 2020
Posted without comment. CC: @jasnoorgill @pranav612 @baljanak
aaditya
@aaditya
Aug 19, 2022
A common mistake founders (esp technical ones) make is assuming: 1) Selling is something magical that only sales people can do 2) Just hire a sales person → sales problem solved! I made both these assumptions running @calm_io. Came back to bite me!
Jen Abel
@jjen_abel
Aug 17, 2022
The amount of $$$$ wasted on hiring full-time sales bodies before commercial validation is completed must be looked at closely for startups. Sales doesn't figure itself out. If you, Founder, haven't found market pulse there's a 99.9%, your sales leader/sales team won't.
aaditya
@aaditya
May 31, 2019
.@sunilpotti has been an amazing manager, valuable guide and a good friend. There is so much I learnt & absorbed from him (least of which was patience 😁) He leaves with our best wishes for his new endeavors 🥰
aaditya
@aaditya
May 16, 2018
This dude, @singh_sequoia , practices what he preaches; he's relentlessly optimist. And believe me it helps every single day.
Peak XV Partners
@peakxvpartners
May 15, 2018
In our launch episode of #FrontLines, @singh_sequoia shares his view on why #resilient #optimism is a must-have quality for #startup founders.
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aaditya
@aaditya
Jul 18, 2024
One of those evenings when I got to listen to the estimable @AjeyGore & insightful @TrivediVedant talk. The pic has Ajey explaining the finer points of GoJek architecture and stack. An evening full of deep conversation, laughs & the inevitable bakchodi. It only ended at 1 am
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aaditya
@aaditya
Dec 20, 2024
India is a dump, cities barely work, sidewalks are unwalkable, corruption everywhere, roads resemble craters — these views show up with predictable regularity in my feed. And to be honest, this is broadly true. But what’s the root cause? I think these are symptoms of three
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