Prashanth Tondapu

Then we look for alignment more than skill.

Like they align with our values.

That is a huge priority.

So when we hire right now, it is more around like after three or four interviews, the people who interviewed, even one guy says no, it's a no.

That's our very strict hiring criteria.

So again, I'm a big follower of Advaita, right?

Like things fall into place.

Earlier in the beginning, like the ego went high.

I felt like I'm the guy who is such an amazing guy who thought of so many things and built it.

But now I'm matured enough to understand that it was all incidental in a way.

It's a series of events of cause and effect.

Like every moment in front of you took like billions of years to form is my kind of approach.

So I have stopped feeling extremely proud of what is being built because it's a living organism in a way.

Company builds itself based on the people that it brings in and all that.

But the biggest thing that I feel really good about is how I have grown as an individual.

It is like you're thrown into so many things which are uncertain.

You do not know anything.

And the feeling of control that you actually feel in the beginning because you got some small amount of success and all that.

But slowly as you progress, you end up actually believing that you had nothing to do with that.

Everybody was doing their part and stuff like that.