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The true story of Ganesh Ramakrishnan (Gobi's CEO), Jeremy D. Schneider (Gobi's CTO), and Sudhir Shrotri (Gobi's CFO)--three
goons that got fired from DE Shaw,
raised money from a friend's uncle, started a company called Gobi, hired everyone they knew on promises,
and collected a few million bucks for a crackpot business plan, only to run things psychotically into the ground and find themselves near bankruptcy. When they fired everyone
only to have their shareholders fire them, I wrote this story.
In two chapters
"My Time On Line" - the RCN deal
"Raising the Money You'll Burn" - what you have to tell people
This is my account of a true story involving true-to-life dirtbags. Self-publishing has its virtues, mainly the image of
how Jeremy Schneider must feel when he searches for his name on Google, or the way those who've heard Sudhir Shrotri's loud talk must laugh when they hear how things have turned out. In 2003, 4 years after their company folded, Sudhir Shrotri had apparently gone scraping back to business school.
What the critics are saying
"Be prepared to run outside for a breath of fresh air..."
-Jason Shellen, famed blogger, Shellen.org
Copyright Amol Sarva 2000.
Amol's Homepage.
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How To Burn: from Silicon Startup to Dot-com Disaster
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