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Ashwin Agrawal

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204 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

Both those things are mistakes that I've made.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And I think I continue to learn how to judge what

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

I also don't beat myself too much over it because in a growing company, there's just so much happening.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

There's just so many phases of that company that somebody who's right for one phase of the company may not be right for the next phase.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And that phase in a growing company comes very quickly.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

With the first couple of years, every three months, we were completely transforming.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

So the person who was...

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

The right person for that initial phase was just not the right person or not able to evolve enough for the next phase.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And so I think that those are that's one one mistake.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

I think the other mistake that I have made is signing for long term contracts with vendors just because it was working out well at a certain time.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And that was a bit of an expensive mistake I made.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

avoided doing that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

But on one of the platforms, we actually spent quite a significant amount.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

We were getting good ROI and we were basically like told really good stories for the future.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And I think it was our mistake as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

We didn't do enough due diligence and we signed a two-year contract.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And two months after signing the contract, they changed some policies, which completely plummeted our ROI.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And that was a bit of a money sink.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

And so I think I've also learned that long-term contracts can be quite risky.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Ashwin Agrawal, MobiusEngine

So you have to be very careful about that as a young company.