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Bangalore: Dooggy, a startup that recently raised a million dollars in funds from VCs here in Bangalore, has confirmed in a statement today that it has fired its CEO. Tadapit Prasad, an IIM-A 2000 passout and a Unilever alumni, was apparently fired since he never used any of the usual catchphrases CEOs are associated with.
“We are a startup that does pet dog makeovers and very few people take us seriously”, Sachin Dutta, the founder of Dooggy said. “So, we hired a professional CEO because having someone who is ex-IIM-A and ex-HUL just makes it so much simpler to get funds from VCs. Before we hired Tadapit, VCs would just laugh at us. In fact, Sequoia called us to their office just so they could laugh at us”.
“It worked for a while and we even got a million dollars in funding”, Dutta continued. “But soon we realized that all Tadapit had was the ability to manage our business and none of the showboating we needed from a professional CEO. He didn’t play golf, wear cufflinks or Rolexes. Most of all, he never used phrases like ‘lipstick on a pig’, ‘let us double-click on that’, ‘where the rubber meets the road’, etc. It felt like our office peon Jayaprasad had learnt English and gotten 15 years FMCG experience… there was no CEO type feel”.
“We will now hire a CEO who is truly CEO material”, Dutta concluded.
http://my.fakingnews.firstpost.com/2015/10/11/ceo-fired-for-not-using-enough-ceo-catchphrases/
Bangalore: Dooggy, a startup that recently raised a million dollars in funds from VCs here in Bangalore, has confirmed in a statement today that it has fired its CEO. Tadapit Prasad, an IIM-A 2000 passout and a Unilever alumni, was apparently fired since he never used any of the usual catchphrases CEOs are associated with.
“We are a startup that does pet dog makeovers and very few people take us seriously”, Sachin Dutta, the founder of Dooggy said. “So, we hired a professional CEO because having someone who is ex-IIM-A and ex-HUL just makes it so much simpler to get funds from VCs. Before we hired Tadapit, VCs would just laugh at us. In fact, Sequoia called us to their office just so they could laugh at us”.
“It worked for a while and we even got a million dollars in funding”, Dutta continued. “But soon we realized that all Tadapit had was the ability to manage our business and none of the showboating we needed from a professional CEO. He didn’t play golf, wear cufflinks or Rolexes. Most of all, he never used phrases like ‘lipstick on a pig’, ‘let us double-click on that’, ‘where the rubber meets the road’, etc. It felt like our office peon Jayaprasad had learnt English and gotten 15 years FMCG experience… there was no CEO type feel”.
“We will now hire a CEO who is truly CEO material”, Dutta concluded.
http://my.fakingnews.firstpost.com/2015/10/11/ceo-fired-for-not-using-enough-ceo-catchphrases/
