Mukul Kumar (co-founder, Pubmatic) candidly shares the very early days of Pubmatic, what it took to get where they are now and the challenges they faced along the journey. His hiring experience is something you would want to listen to.

 

Straight from the founder :

“There were times we had this challenge in our first office, we would either get electricity or we would get broadband, we would never get both of them together. And when there was no electricity we would loose the routing capabilities. We were just two people in the company and we were managing the servers in the US from India , we were the ones deploying it, we were the once coding all the time, we were the people who were talking to customers and we used to have demos at mid-night for US customers. And when the electricity issues would pop-up during mid-night, we used to run around in our bikes with laptops in our hands to look for places where we could find the boradband (my place, our my co-founders place). So the key lesson is that you cannot just sit there and expect things to happen, you have to be ready to do anything and just have the conviction that ” Iam going to do this”.