Thread by @TheAtulMishra

Ashneer Grover controversy - a no holds barred thread.

Entitled brats stay away, snowflakes stay away and poverty loving bleeding hearts stay the f away.

I didn’t even know @Ashneer_Grover Grover before I started watching Shark Tank India. He is the sole reason why I watch the show.

Ashneer Grover isn’t exactly a pleasant man. And it’s very clear from his behaviour on Shark Tank. He rarely smiles.

He tells people that their idea is worth shit. And he strategically invests only in profit making businesses.

I guess that makes him a perfect shark 🦈 considering the show is called Shark Tank and not Dolphin 🐬 tank. Some snowflakes already hated the man. And then came the big AudioGate episode.

So some lazyass bank employee forgot to book an investment and denied him of a golden opportunity of making crores of rupees. It was only natural that he got pissed.

Now the “poor” bank employee strategically recorded the conversation of an irate Grover cursing the bank and the employee.

The bank employee masterfully leads Ashneer to curse more. “Are you drunk sir?”, “Sir you’re a legend, an icon don’t say like this sir” and similar crap. Ashneer goes bonkers and goes to the extent of threatening the bank employee.

Was Ashneer wrong in being angry? No
Was the bank employee wrong? Yes and lazy and a victim card flasher
Is Ashneer’s language acceptable? No, but people lose their minds for trivial things and here we are talking crores.

Are CEOs/Founders supposed to be rainbow farting unicorns 🦄 spreading love and harmony and positivity everywhere? No.

In fact most successful CEOs have been Category-A A-Holes. Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Smith all were hated by their employees and loved by people.

I saw a Quint article where some entitled brats were assassinating Grover’s character. These must be same rascals who must have been fired at some point of time.

The term “toxic work culture” is thrown around like a cushion these days. You join a startup at 5 times the salary to do 50 times the work. Don’t want to do it, join a mass recruiter and die living in a 2BHK.

And when some of these overpaid underperforming rascals are thrown out, they cry “toxic work culture” till their throats go dry.

So blaming Ashneer for cursing and swearing at a lazy call-recording bank employee reeks of India’s socialist hangover.

The rich is always wrong. Those who drive Mercs and Beamers are always wrong. Trying to crucify Ashneer is crucifying the job creators and wealth creators of India. We are not pro-poor as a country, we are anti-rich.