SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka

Latest Scam: Ankur Warikoo, Chetan Bhagat, Raj Shamani

Not going to lie but Ashneer was right, Mankur Marikoo ka naam saath mei mat lena, tu mujhe gaali se se but naam saath mei mat lena( because he’s the biggest scam artist after Dakshat Shrivastava)

Just like Vauld, Marikoo turns out to be the biggest sell out of all time yet again. With Fraud Shamani and Chetan Bro-goat following him, they promoted a scam Startup Conference in Noida stating you can raise funding there, that too within 3 days.

Turns out you have to pay 💰 a boatload of cash to get into the conference. Now it turns out to be a scam when the organisers fled away with the money.

It’s a pity that people follow these charlatans who masquerade as superior beings while their true character is revealed in moments like this..

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CosmicBagel
CosmicBagel
Kalr26mo

What have Akshat Shrivastava done, I think his points are worth thinking on, not saying follow him blindly.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

Bruh 😂 No serious Finance guy would follow whatever Bakshat Shrivastava is dishing. He promoted Vauld, a crypto FD app, which stopped withdrawals altogether. He had to go on live and apologise to his audience. People couldn’t get their money back even till today and it’s been almost 9 months.

Just look at him trying to piece together an explanation and look at the live chat blow up.
https://www.youtube.com/live/tMdXcyvQ_1E

CosmicBagel
CosmicBagel
Kalr26mo

Thanks for the info, I too read comment about him promoting anything in his videos

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin
Amazon26mo
SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

Scam cycle Crypto -> NFT -> DeFi -> web3 -> start up What next? AI 🤖🦿🦾

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

AI scams are already here. All those fancy sites with a cool demo on twitter and a waitlist for some AI product are vapourware and they are going to use the same waitlist numbers and fake demo to raise some vc cash.

CosmicPanda
CosmicPanda
Amazon26mo

I don't understand what Raj shamani brings to the table. His podcast have no substance added by him. No effort feels like he's doing timepass

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

He’s a Nepo Baby. Leveraged his network to get access to folks and then monetised on it by podcasts. Same playbook as Prakhar ke Pravachan.

FloatingBagel
FloatingBagel

Haven’t seen his work but I think their core audience is Tier2 & Tier3 city crowds, who is satisfied by generic content. Same case with Beer Batli, Warikoo etc

TwirlyPotato
TwirlyPotato

Bruh Raj Sham-ani is just another level.

I got interested in the guy because I got triggered by a video he did with another pretend to know it all guy about startups being a scam (you could argue some startups are a scam but not the whole concept itself).

Anyway turns out his claim to fame is turning his family business of manufacturing soaps and detergents around. With a little more digging it seems like he didn't do much at all. He tried doing something in this line of business and ended up bumping his numbers by merging his company with his dad's chemical trading business. Worst of all, on all his paid for profile pieces he proudly claims that he ran a MLM scheme to increase sales. As for the actual product I couldn't find it on an Ecom platform or reviews.

Irony that the scammer is endorsing a scam event about an entire industry he has called out as a scam.

PS: Please watch that video. It's beyond me how these influencers will just turn on anything based on the flavour of the season.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

I know who you’re talking about. That guest didn’t even realise that there are so many business models where profitability is at the tail of the journey. But when you do make money, you make a bucketload, think AirBnB, it’s on the rate to go break even within 1 year after burning for almost a decade.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

The sheer ignorance is mind boggling.

SqueakyNugget
SqueakyNugget

Ashneer bhi toh scammer hi hai bhai.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

Bhai 😂 Ashneer is not a scammer.

SqueakyNugget
SqueakyNugget

Sequoia disagrees ;)

FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo26mo

Tum log ro donge agar tumhe pata chala aaj k date me influencers kitna kama rahe hai https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqFEKJ9NkOt/ - Ashneer

Fact h folks. Society itself is incentivising the evil

FloatingBagel
FloatingBagel

Do you know the rates? Might think about building an audience

DizzyPancake
DizzyPancake

An average influencer with 1M on Instagram will charge 1.5L INR for a 60 second reel and a story.

PeppyMarshmallow
PeppyMarshmallow
KPMG26mo

fuckshat srivastav wife is a government servant so he left his pvt. sector job to become fulltime influencer / scamster

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

Source or it didn’t happen.

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

Yes his wife is a civil servant. You can check out the 14th Feb video on his channel for proof.

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut

Finance Influenzas are the current pandemic.

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon26mo

😂😂

BubblyBiscuit
BubblyBiscuit
Student26mo

Such a low quality post ..i hope grapevine doesn't have these cringe posts ..also always do your own research!

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

Such a low quality comment, I hope grapevine doesn’t have such cringe comments… also always do your own research.

No one asked you boy. If you don’t like it then off you go to wonderland boy. You’re just one of them toxic fanboys being toxic.

BubblyBiscuit
BubblyBiscuit
Student26mo

I hate all the people you mentioned here for obvious reasons not a fanboy that's why I said do your own research before taking any step ..but I get classified as a fanboy ...

DerpyBurrito
DerpyBurrito
Gojek26mo

Don't know about scam, but ashneer is doing all these things to look cool and looking cool is a trending thing in today's corporate world

JazzyJellybean
JazzyJellybean

Bruh, nothing wrong with looking cool. Everyone wants to be cool including you

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek26mo

@YevvaTaggedhele Exactly. He’s just trying to look cool. Like I get it, Ashneer isn’t peak supremacy. So what? This post is not about him at all. Like, atleast say something relevant.

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