I am sure you have all read this one by now – How to Negotiate like an Indian — 7 Rules – Anything you found particularly fascinating? Like this line for instance? Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia, a CA transplant from Bangalore, credited the bargaining skills he learned in vegetable markets at home for getting Microsoft to push its acquisition price for his company from $160 million to $400 million.
And ever since I read it, I can’t this image out of my head of Sabeer Lalitaji Bhatia driving a hard bargain with Bill bhaajiwala Gates. bhai sahab! agar itna saara storage ke liye mujhe itne hi milion dollars miley toh….” *tap tap on the head*
Lovely post…
We got a lot we can teach 🙂
lol…..
i can just imagine the conversation
BG – 160
SB – 1600….
and then coming down million by million….:)
it is more like haggling for carpets !!!
He he he,
Precisely the same thought occurred to my head when I first read the article. Although I am not surprised with the ways of bargaining explained in the post. Most of these techniques are being religiously followed by me for a long long time now, the miser that I am 😉
Cheers………..Jam
hahahah… the picture you have painted in funny.. 🙂
Heh! Yes, that is funny. I do remember Sabeer Bhatia mentioning this during an interview after the sold Hotmail to MSFT.