Dear Reader,
Welcome to the 10th edition of Malpani Ventures’ Good reads! As the first showers hit several parts of the country, we are hopeful for a replenishing monsoon!
We would love to hear your feedback on how to better cater to our audience through these reads!
The Wisdom List: Kevin Aluwi
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/kevin-aluwi
The co-founder and CEO of Gojek, an Indonesian super-app spanning ride-hailing, food delivery, financial services, & beyond, shares his lessons on creating a principled culture, managing organizational debt, and building true moats.
The truth is that if your business is like Gojek’s, a small number of products will drive nearly 100% of the value. Spend your time and resources on the places it matters most.
You can’t go Wrong with Gong
Lessons from Gong and its content-powered growth engine that catapulted the sales enablement software’s rise from $0 to $120M ARR, a $7.25B valuation, 140% net dollar retention, and almost zero churn
Building Trust and Assessing Integrity as You Interview
https://future.com/building-trust-and-assessing-integrity-as-you-interview/
A practical framework for assessing and building trust while interviewing candidates
Ideally, you will get a candidate to tell you a story about one of these questions. Listen for a pattern. In order for a personality characteristic to be considered an issue, it must show up multiple times in a person’s life.
Pic of the week:
Unicornish to English By Buggy Human @SridharanAnand
See you next week!