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Jain: Recruitment industry has completely failed to adopt modern ad tech
“That technology is so advanced, and it's, in a simplistic way, it's ad tech. It's what Google does. It's what Amazon does at the core of it. That technology has not been implemented or used in any shape or form in our industry.”
Opinion
Jain: Money is the easiest thing in the world to make
“Money I believe is the easiest thing in the world to make, and it's one thing that
Will never truly make you happy.
But actually more money is more complications in life.”
Opinion
Jain: Online recruitment industry has not fundamentally changed since 1995
“Number three, I think it has been the only industry which has actually not fundamentally changed from 1995 when it started. It's still called a job board, right?”
Opinion
Jain: Sales and software engineering are fundamentally similar disciplines
“So I, for one, would like to claim that there's not much of a difference between sales and software engineering.”
Insight
Jain: Scaling has limited value if a business cannot eventually generate cash
“Cash is the king. If you run out of runway, there's nothing that you left with. Running after scale has some value, but after a certain point of time, right, you've got to make cash.”
Insight
Jain: The career advice to 'do what you love' is fundamentally wrong
“It is it is wrong to say that you do what you love. This is wrong, right? If you, if that is the case, right? Because anything that you do on a repetitive basis every day, it's a, it's ad nauseum, right? You just keep on doing this every day. You're not going …”
Insight
Jain: Sales teams should prioritize pipeline conversion over closed customer counts
“I would advise that nobody should focus on how many customers did I sold. Focus on the pipeline in sales. Focus on the quality conversion. So qualifying the pipeline, quality conversions, improving the conversions, and the outcome will automatically the number…”
Insight
Jain: Companies fail when forcing salespeople into rigidly standardized pitch styles
“The mistakes companies make is, they tie up everybody in the teams to say, you are going to say exactly this message this way. This message is okay. This way has to be the person's own style.”
Insight
Jain: Startups achieve high valuations by mastering a single hyper-specific niche
“See, imagine, right, you will be highly valued if you just do one small thing, but do it better than anybody else in the world. If you just make chapels, like literally bathroom slippers, but you make the best bathroom slippers in the world, everybody in the w…”
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Jain: Mobalt secured 15 Fortune 100 clients and near-profitability within 18 months
“We had if I'm not wrong almost 15 or fortune hundred companies. We had three of the top 10 brands in the world. It was a wild success. And we almost became profitable in a year and a half of operations.”
Insight
Jain: Cold calling is the most underrated skill for any aspiring entrepreneur
“And I think cold calling is the most underrated skill. I think everybody who wants to be an entrepreneur needs to know how to cold call, pick up the phone and ask for help.”
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Jain: Joveo had product-market fit from day zero due to domain expertise
“The only thing we did right is our product market fit was established from day zero, and then call it what you may, but I think just living in this space forever, and having done everything that you could do in this space, it was obvious to me.”
What-if
Jain: Joveo should have halted sales instead of repeatedly patching broken MVPs
“Then we continue to patch it and never patch something that is not, but we should have completely put up full stop and said, we will not sell anymore. And focus on getting the product right. And until it is completely validated You know, tested rigorously. We …”
Insight
Jain: Cultural alignment dictates M&A success more than technical or service fit
“Just because something fits does not mean it will fit. The culture makes it fit. The technology complement, ah, or whatever the service complementing that is there makes it look like it will fit.”
Opinion
Jain: Nine out of ten people are unhappy in their jobs
“Because if you ask people, right, nine out of 10 people would say they're not happy in their jobs. It's not because of them, it's because they just haven't found the right fit, the right company, the right culture, the right place for them.”
Insight
Jain: Founders must beg without ego and give away all credit
“You have to be willing to beg without an ego. You have to be able to share credit without taking any. It is just the mindset, right? Because you are so married to that one end goal that none, nothing else matters prior to that.”
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Jain: Bootstrapped Mobalt became Indeed's first-ever acquisition despite competing buyout offers
“And it might appear from a distance that, wow, bootstrap company, indeed, first server acquisition, mobile, awesome multiples.
Great.
A lot of other companies were in competitive space that time wanting to acquire us.”
