Remember when you spent all your time playing computer games and your mum would tell you that you’d amount to nothing? There’s a guy who’s quit his job to play World of Warcraft for a year – and when he was done, he founded a billion dollar company.
After declaring that he would give distribute his company’s shares among his employees, Rahul Yadav has challenged rival CEOs to do the same.
Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav announced his intention to offload his share in the company to his staff, sources have reported. The announcement was made in a town hall meeting held earlier today.
A startup founder has bought 3 of Steve Jobs’ business cards for an astonishing $10,500 – all to create buzz for his product.
Google will reportedly build its largest non US campus in Hyderabad. The campus is expected to be completed by 2019.
Startups are seen as places where employee rights are at the forefront – there are usually no fixed working hours, no dress codes, and no unnecessary hierarchical procedures. In the past few years, people have joined the startup wave in droves, enamoured by the promise of better working conditions and more substantive work. However amidst the unstructured and disruptive environment that startups operate in, employee rights often fall by the wayside.
A Chinese CEO has taken his 6400 strong staff on vacation to France to celebrate his company’s 20th anniversary.
It’s not uncommon for people to turn to the internet for advice in choosing jobs. An engineer from the US, who had job offers from Quora and Zenefits, did exactly that. He posted a thread entitled “What is the best way to start my career: Uber or Zenefits?” on Quora, a popular discussion forum. Things did not quite go as planned when the CEO of Zenefits happened to come across his post and publicly withdrew his job offer.
Rahul Yadav uploads picture of him showing the middle finger on Facebook the day after the resignation saga unfolded.