‘Partnerships’ has been quite the buzzword in SaaS over the past couple of years. It is imperative to scaling business, and according to Kunal Sharma of Rocketium, “The bigger goal of partnerships is to create an ecosystem.” The Head of Sales at Rocketium joined the...
“Where do you want to be five years down the line in your career?” It’s a question we’re often asked as part of our career progression chats and interviews. However, Vijay Rajagopal does not see the merit in this query. According to him, “There’s a misconception that...
“Whether we like it or not, gravity exists. Gravity doesn't care if we tweet about it, agree, or disagree that it exists. Facts and data are like gravity,” says Rishad Tobaccowala. The author...
What is more important: the journey, or the destination? For Thaddeus Lawrence, it is the company that matters most. “Because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our relationships. All your high and wins to lows and desperate...
William Blake said, “The true method of knowledge is experiment.” And product veteran Dexter Zhuang strongly believes this. “Experimenting allows you to grow fast or fail fast. Considering the success rate of experiments is 1-4%, either way,...
Jane Egerton-Idehen, the Head of Sales Middle East & Africa at Meta (formerly Facebook), has been on a lifelong quest, seeking balance between professional and personal success. She spoke about much of it in Crayon's Lighthouse Fireside Chat series a few months...
Andrew Michael is no stranger to the startup game. He founded three companies, which created four products. “But I had to sell them for peanuts, since churn and retention was a killer for those products,” he said. This led to an almost obsessive quest to find out...
(Clockwise from left) Vaibbhav Kinkar of Crayon Data, Jane Egerton-Idehen and the Crayon Box in Chennai Growing up in the underprivileged section of Lagos, Nigeria, young Jane Egerton-Idehen had a dream. In it, she wore a white pantsuit and stood in...
The CEO and founder of Mason, Kaus Manjita, talked design, tech and entrepreneurship in Crayon Data’s Lighthouse Fireside Chat Kaus in conversation with Crayon Data After spending over 16 years in ecommerce, Kausambi aka Kaus Manjita knows a thing or two...
How would you define yourself with a prefix? Talkative, fun-loving, socially awkward, hansmukh, creative… These were just some ways in which Crayons described themselves. In an internal Lighthouse Fireside chat on 17 June...
Manoj Chandran of White Swan Foundation (left) in conversation with the Crayon Data team On 20th May 2021, Manoj Chandran, CEO and founder of White Swan Foundation, joined Crayon's internal Lighthouse Fireside Chat to talk about the importance of mental health...