Needle Founders & People Code

Vision

Bringing happiness back into life. Connecting distributed relevant data (emails, social networks, chat conversations, bookmarks, webpages, mobile apps) to life objectives which make human beings better like learning, travel & doing work that makes one happy.

Legacy

It’s not about the money. It’s first about the legacy, and then the money to sustain the legacy.

Leadership

Lead and set an example to the people in the team. Be honest, transparent, disciplined and have fun but get business done.

Leadership

Follow a culture of leadership, not bureaucracy. Lead the teams don’t manage them.

Sound & quick decisions

Everything works via honest, transparent discussion. Decisions to be taken with logically backed arguments. We won’t agree always. But don’t take it to heart. It is a constructive business building process, not a personal issue.

Accountability

A lot of things depend on you. Be clear about your dependencies, so that others don’t have to wait until you are done. You are answerable to a whole lot of people and especially to the team that works with you.

Strong base forever

Strive hard to build a scalable company. But build a strong base of good work done in the market, good money in the banks for supporting the scale, keep lean & simple personal benefits.

Responsibility

Bear the responsibility. Don’t wait for the responsibility to bear out.

Customer Happiness Focus

Customer happiness is a religion, and you are its practitioners. Don’t keep the customer waiting if the requirements or needs have been discussed and agreed to by yourself.

Free to work on anything, anytime. Do it the way it makes you

comfortable. But keep in mind dependency, and the macro time limit.

Fail fast, Succeed faster

Be lean and mean. Be as swift as possible. Make mistakes but make better solutions to these mistakes faster.

Respect

Respect the effort and time of others.

Thoughtful Aggression

Be aggressive in scaling. But don’t hurt people or yourself in the process.

Build a team with character

Take time in hiring. But hire people better than yourself. And learn from those you hire. Even if they are younger. Remember you don’t know everything.

Learn and execute

Learn always. There is no way we can be the best if we are not aggressive in learning. Learn, and build stuff fast to execute learning.

20% New things

Deliver business deliverables. But every week execute what you have learnt with your own ideas.