Startup With Shashank
Live life
shameless.
I could not speak in the rooms that decided things. It cost me a business. Now I am the one on the other side of the table.
Now live · the format
I didn't want to make a course.
A lecture gets written before it gets delivered. Somebody decides what you need to know, writes it down, and reads it at you. Every awkward part is removed in the draft. That is the teacher getting comfortable, not you getting better.
So I didn't write it. I sat down and got asked. When my answer was vague, I got asked again. What survived is what I actually believe.
Built for your confusion
A lecture is built for my comfort. This is built around the question you would actually ask.
The caveats survive
Unscripted answers keep the "actually no, that doesn't work when…" that a script sands off.
Watchable in pieces
It plays like a podcast because it is one. On a phone, on a commute, without a desk.
“I am not going to give you any frameworks.”
The first drop
Communication. Because it is the thing that cost me the most.
- You know the answer in the meeting. You say nothing.
- "Tell me about yourself," and you recite your CV badly.
- You did the work. The one who talks more got the credit.
- You can't say no to your boss, so you say yes and resent it.
- Fine in Telugu with friends. Mute in an English-speaking office.
Eight modules. Each one ends with a Shameless Rep — one public thing you do within forty-eight hours. Not a worksheet. Something that costs you a small, survivable amount of embarrassment on purpose.
More is being made. When it is real, it goes here.