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The story of ChipAnu
When it comes to selling one’s own product, one can go crazy! Especially in case of startups where manpower is short and a team spends countless sleepless nights to come up with something that looks a bit like what they had dreamt of when they started. Then they have to get involved in selling it themselves! (Their line of thinking: it is my baby and who better than me to sell it to the world!). Anyways, who can afford a salesman in the beginning! Finally, the team is over worked, under pressure and loses control.
We had an incident in the team where Anu became so desperate to sell our coupons that he almost lost Chip’s brand new bike in the process. The craziest thing and something I love Anu for is – after finding out that the bike is lost, he calls Chip and says “Heloooo Cheeeep, I was at Brigade road and it seems your bike is stolen. I am going to other customers to sell more coupons, please go to a police station and file a complaint if you wish.” And then our guy disconnects and doesn’t pick up the phone! This is called the spirit of a salesman! Love you Anu, keep it up! I love it when Chip goes mad!
And mad he went! He made frantic calls to me and poured his heart out in the form of choicest of ugly adjectives directed towards Anu. He was almost on the verge of crying while I tried to tell him that his bike didn’t look good anyway! Finally, Chip went to the police station near Brigade Road and they told him that his bike has been towed, as it was not parked properly. He got his life back and Anu only had to listen to abuses for the second half of the day. From that day Chip has decided not to give his bike to anyone. He doesn’t even let us touch it and throws all the tantrums of a jealous boyfriend. Wait till I ride it like crazy in front of your two eyes!
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