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SCALER POD 07 ft. Akash Saxena, CTO, Hotstar | Cricket, Managing Scale and Future of OTT Platforms

Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast

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The Only Reason I Can Keep My Job

In 2000 in the Bay Area, you know, we saw like three layoffs and it was very traumatic. The only reason I kept holding on to my job was because I was versatile. And then that's when open table happened. So again, I've always followed my heart versus my mind. You know what? We just charge a dollar to everybody we sent to the restaurant. Like you're kidding me, right?Like this company is going to like bomb. Back in the same kind of cyclical world where startups fail so many times, you lose hope. That certainly was that phase for me.

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