Prashanth Tondapu

I started the company when I was 27.

So I did not know much.

Even in the company that I was working with, I never hired before.

So I never really knew.

All the seven first hires of InnoStax were fired probably in 15 days.

I realized it's not working.

Then I found a couple of guys who were like me.

Earlier I used to try to hire for skill based on what I thought was required.

Then I started looking for people who had similar traits like me.

Then somewhere a very wise line I've heard which said that founders basically, the company is basically an extension of the founder.

It has the traits of the founder.

So the people that came on board later and like really progressed were people who were similar to me in a way.

My entire exec team, they joined here as people fresh out of college.

Like my CTO, my COO and all those main guys are all from there and like we built it together.

Like even I was figuring out how to be a CEO.

They also figured out how to be the CTO and that's how the team was organically built.

Then once we found out what the process was, then the process evolved.

Actually it emerged out of the fog as in how we were hiring more.

So we tried hiring for IQ.

We have an IQ test for people.