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Mar 2023
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What's It Like Working For A 'Frugal' Co...

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About this episode

Everybody is cutting costs. 


Not because they want to. But because they have to. 


A few months ago, edtech Unacademy announced that they were making frugality as one of their ‘core values’ to focus on profitability. 


But can you really be a frugal company if it’s not in your DNA from the very beginning?


In this episode, I speak to Somnath Mukherjee (AVP Business, Zerodha), Rahul Deorah (Finance Lead, Deserv), and Kavya Jain (Product Manager, FreeUp) to find out what its like working in a frugal company. 

And why every company can’t be frugal, even if they want to. 


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Hosted, Written, and Produced by Shreevar Chhotaria

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