{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Principles","title":"Five founders on creating trust, patience and careers in their organisations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5169,"description":"Welcome back to First Principles. I’m your host, Rohin Dharmakumar.\n \nThank you for listening to us. We’re thankful that you choose to spend a few hours with us each week!\n \nToday we have a “supercut” episode. Normally our conversations go deep with one specific guest, but every now and then we zoom out and go broad by stitching together a multi-guest conversation. And the invisible thread that connects the conversations with 5 founders we picked for today is company culture.\n \nWhat’s the best way to empower your talent? What do founders expect from employees? And how do they build their company culture?\n \nThis is where it gets interesting. In most cases, our guests have differing opinions on these subjects. But while putting this episode together, we kept encountering one word – or a substitute for it, in some cases. \n \nAnd that was, patience. \n \nPatience in the way that they give feedback to their employees. Patience in investing in your employees. Building this patience not just within themselves, but the entire organization. \n \nThere are some very interesting perspectives in this episode on how these founders approach and practice patience, among other principles of leadership and management. \n \nHere’s a rundown of our guests in this episode: \n \nFirst up, we have Krish Subramanian of Chargebee, who has a simple and powerful dictum, “Move the chairs and get out of the way of good people.” At Chargebee, you wouldn’t fit in if you limit yourself to a strict hierarchy – he sees employees more as his peer group.\n \nNext, we have Varun Dua of Acko Insurance, who spoke about growing in a company from an employee’s point of view. One of the things he told me was that when you find something you love, you should be at it for 10-15 years. Because it is the payoff of years of perseverance that is fruitful – and  not the short term gains you make along the way. \n \nYashish Dahiya, the co-founder of PolicyBazaar, was quite candid in our chat. He spoke about why an employee...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZPjguY9ABfvbemOPTrjXRW3XKosLSKk1tzX-F51gCWw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82N2E1/MjUwZmE5M2ZlZTZh/NzFjZjcwNjVlMGQ3/ZjkxOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}