New Delhi: Roshan Patel, CEO of Walnut, posted a conversation from two years ago on the microblogging platform Twitter. The tweet was about a software engineer’s ‘brutally honest’ response to a job offer. It all started in 2021 when Mr. Patel was looking for employees for his start-up after receiving pre-seed money. He sent a text message to a software engineer he had shortlisted to see if she would be interested.
“I run a startup that makes healthcare more accessible by lowering the cost of care. We recently raised a pre-seed round and are looking for skilled engineers to join our team. Is anyone there? Read Mr. Patel’s letter. (Also read: 5 best credit cards to use this summer for vacations – Rewards check, forex markup fee,
What happened next is hilarious and has left online users in fits of laughter. He got a straight answer: “Hello Roshan, my current salary is higher than your entire pre-seed round amount according to Crunchbase, which I just checked.
Posting a screenshot of the conversation, Mr. Patel commented, “Still thinking about this exchange almost 2 years later.”
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Since being posted, the tweet has been viewed over 3.3 million times. “She’s not wrong. Especially considering that 90 percent of startups fail. She’s also highly established in her career and doing well at that pay rate. I just saw – following the name, which Sounds like a scripted spray-and-pray message.
She said what she said,” commented one Twitter user. Someone else said, “Got to say, it’s a bizarre choice to insult someone who is established and confident because she didn’t respond to your normal message.” Gave. And it appears that your decision to partially blur the image was intentional.
New York-based business Walnut has secured $113.6 million in four rounds of funding, Crunchbase reports. In April 2021, the firm had raised $3.6 million.