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Remembering Shakti

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Shakti was the Founder and CEO of Devfolio. I worked closely with him as his Chief of Staff at Devfolio from 2020 to 2021. In this time, I got to know him quite well and observed his working style in some detail. How he operated wasn’t always in line with popular startup wisdom (even the good kind), and it used to baffle me. He had his own special way of doing things. Consider maybe one of the worst things a startup founder has to do, fire people. There are countless articles written about why it’s necessary to fire fast, how it’s better for everyone that way, and how best to do it, etc., but he just couldn’t get himself to follow any of that. He didn’t fire people; he gave them a company-sponsored hiatus & housing to take some time off, pivot, re-skill in a way that was a win for everyone, and come back. When a team wasn’t needed anymore, instead of just letting them go, he’d go out of his way, spend time finding them a much better job, one where they’d be a better fit and make much m

Shakti was the Founder and CEO of Devfolio. I worked closely with him as his Chief of Staff at Devfolio from 2020 to 2021. In this time, I got to know him quite well and observed his working style in some detail. How he operated wasn’t always in line with popular startup wisdom (even the good kind), and it used to baffle me. He had his own special way of doing things. Consider maybe one of the worst things a startup founder has to do, fire people. There are countless articles written about why it’s necessary to fire fast, how it’s better for everyone that way, and how best to do it, etc., but

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