Is Kunal Shah really this smart?

He is actually smart since he often takes asymmetric bets by over indexing on design thinking, given the cyclical nature of feedback loops.

Ofcourse he is smart but the way he says other influencer cringe shows how hypocrite he himself is.
The word cringe is subjective and he needs to understand that everyone can't be like him and there is audience for everything.

Obviously he is smart, I would say genius because he is not just creative, original many a times, but knows what's the bigger game behind. For example, during Freecharge sale, he knows that the wallet market is getting saturated & it would be difficult to out do Paytm. And sold to Snapdeal & got full cash deal around 0.5 Billion valuation, which is like best for the situation. & Put up his thoughts into understanding India & got into the investing side of things. Got involved with IAMI & Sequioa, improved network, invested, had learnings from the access he has during his stint there. And then did his second innings of Cred & and it's quite disruptive & future would say what hold for him. Good to have such original thinkers in Indian startup ecosystem

I feel he is visionary and smart. But I don’t understand why the hell cred has become useless. I don’t even use the app anymore. Super smart and highly paid PMs in cred - what are you guys doing?

Dimag hai launde k paas maan lo meri baat

One day chickens will come home to roost

I have a journalist friend who interviews Kunal and CPO of cred. She said that we asked regular questions like where the company is going, what's your strategy, opinion, market and similar, he asked his CPO to answer those.
But when asked questions which actually makes him think, then only he takes interest in answering them.
Her opinion is that, he always tries to think out of the box, has weird ideas, connects different nodes and eventually builds a really nice conclusion to execute them.