Akshay S. Kumar

Co-founder, CGO @record_HQ | SaaS + Job Market + Startups + Product

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Recruiters waste 80% of their time verifying candidates instead of assessing if they can do the job.

That’s why we built @record_HQ

A verified skill repository that powers skill-based hiring and slashes evaluation time.

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If you removed money, family expectations, and other people's opinions, what kind of life would you genuinely want to wake up to every day?

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@kxshor Electric⚡️

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@Jason I’m in

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Took a meeting with an enterprise client from the north, and he surprised me by talking in Tamil.

Rare sight.

Seems he was born and brought up in Chennai.

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If you want to improve on anything this year, ask your Chat GPT “What is my ugliest truth about me you know?” You will understand things you never realised.

[Tharun M @testedoktharun]

As this year comes to an end, @akshayskumar_ and I sent this email to everyone at @record_HQ (inspired from here)

My personal and work tracking is from my birthday to my birthday cycle.

This is for the team.

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PMF isn’t early interest or polite feedback.

It’s when customers rip the product out of your hands, and the market drags you forward
like stepping on a landmine.

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The market doesn't care what your vision is; the market wants what it wants, and it always wins.

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Every respected thinker started by documenting.

[Tharun M @testedoktharun]

It's been more than 950 days since I quit my full-time job and started working on an idea, which is @record_HQ today.

What initially started as a skill repository to solve broken things in skill-based hiring has evolved into something bigger.

After speaking to 100+ EdTechs/Upskilling companies, 300+ recruiters/HRs and 1000s of our users, we observed something 🧵

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@kven1979 Yes, full of dust and congested

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Anyone experiencing Mad Max dust experience in Coimbatore?

#Coimbatore

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@chrislevan24 Hire-for-skills

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Product Onboarding rule: If the user don’t win in the first week, they won’t stay.

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@AlfieJCarter system

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@quietly_rich Email

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@lukecodez I don’t know why, but I get my deepest focus in a cafe. With all the noise and people moving around, I should be distracted but it’s the opposite.

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If you are not putting yourself out on the Internet, you are unknowingly paying anonymity tax to this world + missing opportunities and the magic of compounding. #personalnotes

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@DCinfoscaling SEND

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Indefinite optimism believes the future will be better, but it doesn’t know how, so it won’t make any definite plans to make it better. Definite optimism takes the future as something that can be known and designed.
- Thiel’s philosophy