FoundrPwr - Building Exceptional Teams ft. Phanindra Sama (RedBus)

Few decisions shape a startup as lastingly as its first twenty hires. Those people set the pace, the standards and the culture that everyone after them inherits. Yet most founders build their early teams through instinct and urgency rather than design. For the next edition of FoundrPwr, Mela Ventures is hosting Phanindra (Phani) Sama, co-founder and former CEO of redBus, for a conversation on building exceptional teams. Phani built redBus from a small team of engineers into a company that led India's online bus ticketing market and became one of the country's earliest notable startup exits. He