Unusual things I am learning from SharkTank
Beyond ALL startup wisdom that we all see and know
Shark Tank India has taken the country by a rage. A positive rage. A rage of hope, building businesses, believing in yourself, and building an India that will only bloom in the next decade.
However, I am not here to talk about the business stuff.
I would rather want to bring the human stuff that tends to get missed out in the business stuff, and it will also serve as a validation of how we are all just the same.
Let’s go:
Here are the wonderful things:
Sharks are helping founders when they are about to make wrong decisions. Aman saved two founders from selling off their company to Peyush strategically. In another episode, Anupam, Vineeta, Namita and Aman helped two founders understand Deepinder’s deal well, and to take the deal.
You can be the youngest billionaire and the richest one on the tank - yet be smiling, humble, and the easiest to convince. Ritesh is an example.
You can have fun in life while making business decisions. Everyone’s favourite Aman is a classic example.
Listen, before you speak. Which is what the sharks do while listening to the speech. How many of us listen intently to the other person before we speak our stuff?
You don’t need to remember stuff. Write things down. Take your pen, paper, listen and write. You will make a lot of informed decisions through that. I experience that myself in client interactions, when I am simply taking notes as they speak, and then ask questions.
Almost everything boils down to execution. People may copy your ideas and formulae, what they cannot take away is how you execute things. It is a skill and an attitude that is developed at an individual level.
Most bets are not bets on founders but bets on people. Being a nice person makes you trustworthy, and eventually perhaps rich. This is the only thing you can never fake.
Sometimes, only one founder makes the offer while other four have walked out. That founder is not suffering from FOMO, but have conviction in their reason to invest. A lesson for all of us younger people out there.
Things that almost everyone has (myself included):
Sometimes some sharks get offended by others sharks.
Smaller group (of sharks) in a huge group is natural (as much as I do not endorse it).
Fighting with each other in order to pitch the founders to accept their investment.
Above all of these, the thing that stayed with me was how Ronnie Screwvala through his demeanour and through radiating positivity effortlessly, could change the environment as well as the conduct of others - to a place where I found the vibes of the episode with him hugely different. His executive presence was beyond words. Please go back to that episode to feel it yourself.
It turns out: Goodness, positivity, hard work and an irreplaceable work ethic are the secret ingredients to making yourself unstoppable.
Have a great weekend, folks :)
Nishtha Gehija
Founder: Raw and Real
Daily Blogger: nishtha dot blog
Author of: This is What You Are Looking For and Fit Doesn’t Fit
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