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Shikhar
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Building binary.so to simplify hiring
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    Shikhar
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    Nov 19, 2025
    Today we are excited to announce Binary – a better and faster way to hire. Companies nowadays are bombarded with hundreds of low-quality job applications making it harder to respond to the serious ones. Binary is an AI-first hiring tool to cut through this noise and create a
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    Shikhar
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    Apr 4, 2025
    If you are an Indian founder with global ambition - 1. RBI regulations make it insanely hard to accept global payments via Stripe. 2. Best talent wants to leave the country because of broken roads, poor law and order, dangerous AQI. 3. Global investors don't want to invest in
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    Shikhar
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    Feb 7, 2022
    Meesho's #WorkFromAnywhere policy in a nutshell : - Every employee decides whether they want to work from office or home or a hill-station - A week-long meetup every quarter in Bangalore (our HQ), with travel & accommodation fully funded by the company (1/2)
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    Shikhar
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    Apr 14, 2021
    One of my favourite traditions at Meesho is user-calling. Almost every new joinee is expected to call ~50 users before they start working on any project. It's crazy how many 'fancy' ideas go to trash within 10 minutes into the call with a Tier-3 user. ⚡️
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    Shikhar
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    Jun 5, 2021
    When building a 0-1 product, resist the temptation of writing code. Meesho ran entirely on WhatsApp & Google Sheets for many months before we built the first version of our app. A short-thread on how we went about it 👇
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    Shikhar
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    Jun 7, 2021
    App Sizes of Top Indian Startups 🇮🇳 52 MB - BYJU's 41 MB - ShareChat 35 MB - PhonePe 31 MB - Udaan 31 MB - Swiggy 30 MB - Paytm 30 MB - Unacademy 27 MB - Ola 27 MB - CRED 22 MB - Zomato 19 MB - UrbanCompany 17 MB - BigBasket 17 MB - Flipkart 14 MB - PharmEasy 10 MB - Meesho
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    Shikhar
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    May 18, 2022
    In the long run, people who do amazing work often end up with stronger networks than people who do amazing networking.
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    Shikhar
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    Sep 14, 2025
    These photos are from my neighbourhood. People have given up since there is no action by the govt since 3 years. If anyone on Twitter can get the govt to take action, I will buy you an iPhone.
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    Shikhar
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    Feb 21, 2022
    Going to IIT, being a CEO, VP, Director, FAANG etc are all different types of status symbols. Why is all the hate directed towards just IIT? 🤔 Especially when the other symbols are usually less meritocratic (can be earned via privilige, politics, etc)
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    Shikhar
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    Apr 13, 2021
    Every Indian startup has at least 1 engineer who will launch things faster if you order Kachori.
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    Shikhar
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    Dec 9, 2021
    Meesho employees can now convert upto 25% of their salary to special ESOPs (called MeESOPs) which vest 100% in 1 year. Not just this, the company adds a top-up multiplier (upto 1.25X) every time someone does this. So a 10L conversion would actually give you 12.5L of ESOPs.
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    Shikhar
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    Apr 6, 2023
    Latest scam in the startup world - message from the CEO.
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    Shikhar
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    Sep 23, 2022
    Today, Meesho will do more orders than any e-commerce company in India has ever done on a single day. 🔥 These are the 1 am scenes in office.
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    Shikhar
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    Nov 12, 2025
    Good day to remember this email. I couldn't be an early employee but was an early customer and recommended Groww to so many family members and friends. Heartwarming to see their IPO.
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