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Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups | Ashneer Grover
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This is the unfettered story of Ashneer Grover-the favourite and misunderstood poster boy of Start-up India. Raw, gut-wrenching in its honesty and completely from the heart, this is storytelling at its finest. A young boy with a 'refugee' tag growing up in Delhi's Malviya Nagar outpaces his circumstances by becoming a rank-holder at the pinnacle of academic excellence in India-IIT Delhi. He goes on to do an MBA from the hallowed halls of IIM Ahmedabad, builds a career as an investment banker at Kotak Investment Banking and AmEx, and is pivotal in the making of two unicorns-Grofers, as CFO, and BharatPe, as co-founder. As a judge on the popular TV show Shark Tank India, Ashneer becomes a household name even as his life turns upside down. Controversy, media spotlight, garrulous social media chatter descend, making it difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.
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SanjanaGhosh
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What I didn‘t enjoy as much was that he often comes across as arrogant, opinionated, and even a bit vengeful, constantly playing the victim. The title also felt a bit misleading — the “hard truths about startups” part didn‘t really come through. It reads more like his personal take on everything that went wrong rather than a true behind-the-scenes look at how he built his companies.