The unravelling of Ashneer Grover's fortunes: A blow-by-blow account

Murmurs of a toxic work culture at BharatPe grew louder in the wake of its co-founder's personal behaviour

“Yeh sab doglapan hai.” With these words, Ashneer Grover not only called out an entrepreneur being hypocritical, but also shot to fame as a reality television star. 

It happened in the first few days of January, when the funded part of the start-up world needed some warm-up to get back to work, and inevitably Grover’s antics on the show became a talking point. 

The Twitterati also debated whether it was unbecoming of a founder to diss a peer’s business model with such abrasion. And hundreds of memes, with the dialogue set in various circumstances, flooded social media.

But little did the co-founder and