10 things you did not know about us!
Yes! We are a work culture firm that is legally called Never Grow Up ® and started operations on 01 Jan 2010.
For the first 3 odd years, we did not have a full-time team. Instead, our founders bootstrapped their way into building the company through collaborations and partnerships.
This was the time when quitting your job to take a leap of faith was not considered cool.
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P.S. The initial team still works with us.
Leap
of faith
We’ve been thrown out of more coffee shops than you can imagine. Primarily because we almost became like furniture, our usage of Free WI-FI was hurting their bottom line.
We’ve returned the favor by remaining ‘gold members’.
The fruitful
favor!
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No one in the history of our company has ever been fired for making a mistake. Our philosophy is that we are OK with mistakes as long as ‘you make new ones’.
Also, no leave application has ever been denied. Like ever!
Not a prison; you are free
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Often, people laugh at our ideas and then end up implementing them because it makes sense.
In fact, in our first year of operations, we actually met someone who burst out laughing in a client meeting and was at it for 2 minutes!
Ingenious ideas always seem crazy in the beginning
While today we
have nine services,
we have been
featured in publications across the world,
& have gone International.
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Our first workshop was attended by 4 people.
(3 friends and one paid customer)
Winning mindset always works!
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We’ve innovated to create a ‘patented’ survey tool called 'The Happiness Quotient' H.Q. & crafted India’s first Return on Engagement Calculator.
Happy Employees, Patented.
We got our first client 6 months into our business,
but we spent the first 24 months of our existence experimenting with our business model.
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That also meant that our founder went broke (twice)!
That has not stopped us from experimenting.
Experimenting, experience and excellence
We don’t celebrate festivals at work [for a reason], and our ‘Payment Stamp’
has Darth Vader approving the payment.
We celebrate people!
Checklist
matters!
We don’t hire based on pedigree.
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Instead, we pick diverse team members based on attitude and a
​If you drop by our office, you can see the first Internet dongle and company credit card glued to our walls.
We’ve never tracked attendance and probably never will. Only because we trust the team, we work with.
Trust, transparency and teamwork never get old