15: How to build an effective technology team with Mekin Maheswari, founder of Udhyam

Mekin Maheshwari (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mekin) Founder and CEO of Udhyam (https://www.udhyam.org/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .They discuss hiring and building a technology team, lesson learned while heading HR at Flipkart, problem Mekin's startup Udhyam is trying to solve and more.An engineer by education, Mekin has had entrepreneurial roles throughout his career. Notably, he joined Flipkart in 2009 to head technology. After having built a strong technology foundation and a great team, he moved on to running two new businesses before finally heading their HR for his last 2 years at Flipkart.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:45 - Mekin’s career journey. Yahoo, Flipkart & now Udhyam3:10 - What made Mekin join Flipkart in it’s early days?8:30 - 'Product market fit is not enough, you also need to find engineering fit'10:55 - Building great teams - Lesson learned, best practices & mistakes16:40 - Mekin’s transition from heading engineering to heading HR at Flipkart20:25 - 'Unlike engineering you can’t undo a decision in HR easily'22:15 - What is Udhyam & what is it trying to accomplish?Book recommendations by Mekin (https://medium.com/@mekin/mgmt-hr-leadership-reading-list-cbfe86ae9fd6)Opportunity (https://twitter.com/EMC_Delhi/status/1196701618810605568) for Delhi entrepreneurs to interact with school students as part of Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum by Udhyam.For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/how-build-effective-technology-team-mekin-maheswari-founder-udhyam/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/

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