Kunal Shah excels at CRED by getting out of employees' way
Ranjeet Pratap Singh · Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast · May 10, 2021 · at 24:29
Ranjeet Pratap Singh, co-founder of Pratilipi, praises Kunal Shah's hands-off management philosophy at FreeCharge and CRED.
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“Kunal basically knows how to get out of the way, and when you hire great people, that's like 90% of your job. If you are hiring great people, then at least in certain areas, they are always going to be better than you, and whenever you try to help them, whenever you try to be value-add, you are just slowing them down, and you are just frustrating them. In fact, like, so there's a famous saying, I'm forgetting the exact blog, but somebody said the same thing about founders and VCs. Like the best value add that you can do is just get out of my way so I can do the job. And I think Kunal has done that beautifully at both Recharge and at Cred.”
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