The boss you still talk about.

Answered my panicked midnight Slack with 'breathe, we'll fix it together.' Then actually did.

Nikhil Bose

Head of Customer Success at Darwinbox

Darwinbox

⭐ 24 nominationsBusiness

Neha Pillai

Senior Engineer · CRED · 6d

She let me run the experiment everyone thought was dumb. It worked, and she made sure the room knew it was my idea.

Divya Reddy

Director of Growth at Chargebee

Chargebee

⭐ 21 nominationsBusiness

Owned a missed quarter to the board himself and pointed at zero names. The team would walk through walls for him.

Sameer Gupta

VP Sales at Freshworks

Freshworks

⭐ 32 nominationsBusiness

Karan Malhotra

Staff Engineer · Meesho · 6d

Took me on his biggest call as a fresher 'so you see how it's actually done.' Never met a leader so generous with the spotlight.

Sameer Gupta

VP Sales at Freshworks

Freshworks

⭐ 37 nominationsBusiness

Gave the messiest brief I've ever seen one rule: make it feel inevitable. Best constraint of my career.

Tara Menon

Head of Design at Hotstar

Hotstar

⭐ 24 nominationsDesign

He fought finance for a full week so two designers could go to a conference. Invested in us like it was obvious.

Ishaan Kapoor

Design Director at Flipkart

Flipkart

⭐ 33 nominationsDesign

Rohit Khanna

Engineer · Swiggy · 6d

Critiqued the work, never the person. I'd walk out of his reviews bruised and somehow excited to redo it.

Ishaan Kapoor

Design Director at Flipkart

Flipkart

⭐ 38 nominationsDesign

She hired me with a gap on my resume nobody else would look past. Bet on people, not pedigree.

Meera Joshi

Co-founder & CTO, Brightlane

Brightlane

⭐ 19 nominationsFounders

Sanchit Tripathi

Engineering Leader · Grapevine · 6d

Walked the warehouse floor at 2am during peak. Asked the ops guys what was broken and actually fixed it.

Aditya Verma

Founder, Loop Logistics

Loop Logistics

⭐ 21 nominationsFounders

She remembered my mother was unwell and told me to go home before I asked. Built a company that felt human.

Priya Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Nova Health

Nova Health

⭐ 40 nominationsFounders

Aishwarya Nambiar

Senior Engineer · Razorpay · 6d

Paid salaries before her own during the worst quarter. Never made us feel the runway was our problem to carry.

Priya Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Nova Health

Nova Health

⭐ 36 nominationsFounders

Defended a junior PM's roadmap to leadership when it would've been easier to fold. Spine, not politics.

Vikram Desai

Group Product Manager at Postman

Postman

⭐ 18 nominationsProduct

Karan Malhotra

Staff Engineer · Meesho · 6d

Sat with three real sellers before letting us touch Figma. Taught me that talking to users isn't a step, it's the job.

Ananya Rao

Senior PM at Meesho

Meesho

⭐ 21 nominationsProduct

He made me write the press release before the spec. Changed how I think about building, forever.

Karthik Nair

Head of Product at Zerodha

Zerodha

⭐ 39 nominationsProduct

Tanvi Shetty

Engineer · Zerodha · 6d

Killed his own pet feature in front of the whole team because the data said so. Ego-free in a way I'd never seen.

Karthik Nair

Head of Product at Zerodha

Zerodha

⭐ 40 nominationsProduct

She turned a team that dreaded standups into one that actually talked to each other. No framework, just trust.

Fatima Sheikh

Engineering Manager at PhonePe

PhonePe

⭐ 25 nominationsEngineering

Said 'that's my call, not yours' the one time a deploy broke. Took the heat so the intern didn't.

Rohan Iyer

Staff Engineer at Swiggy

Swiggy

⭐ 40 nominationsEngineering

Rohit Khanna

Engineer · Swiggy · 6d

Reviewed my PRs like he was teaching, not gatekeeping. I learned more in his comments than in two years of college.

Rohan Iyer

Staff Engineer at Swiggy

Swiggy

⭐ 35 nominationsEngineering

Neha Pillai

Senior Engineer · CRED · 6d

She blocked a launch to protect the on-call team's weekend. First manager who treated burnout as a real bug.

Sneha Kulkarni

Director of Engineering at CRED

CRED

⭐ 18 nominationsEngineering

He gave me the hardest problem on the team and the air cover to fail at it twice before I got it right.

Arjun Mehta

VP Engineering at Razorpay

Razorpay

⭐ 34 nominationsEngineering

Sanchit Tripathi

Engineering Leader · Grapevine · 6d

Calm in chaos. The night payments went down he stayed on the call, never raised his voice, and we shipped the fix by morning.

Arjun Mehta

VP Engineering at Razorpay

Razorpay

⭐ 39 nominationsEngineering

One of the best design leaders and clear thinkers in consumer

Shreeyash Dharmadhikari

Co-Founder

Tal - AI Talent Agent

⭐ 26 nominationsFounders

One of the best VC leaders - and one of the best consumer tech investors in India point blank

Mukul Arora

Co-Managing Partner

Elevation Capital

⭐ 23 nominationsFounders

One of the best product leaders - pragmatic and demonstrates immense bias for action

Jainam TAL-sania

Co-Founder- TAL, Grapevine

tal (by Grapevine)

⭐ 24 nominationsFounders