

Yadav again courted trouble when he sent an internal e-mail to his employees on the day the report was published, alleging that the Times Group, which ran a competing real estate online portal, was maligning in India. Dismissing the claims made by ET, Yadav denied that he was being replaced. (BCCL), the holding company of the Times Group, one of India’s largest media conglomerates, carried a report on March 12, 2015, stating that the investors at were considering removing Yadav from the post of CEO as they were concerned that his behavior would jeopardize the future of. With the spat between Yadav and Singh becoming public, The Economic Times (ET), an Indian daily published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. It all started with an e-mail he wrote on March 6, 2015, to Shailendra Singh (Singh), Managing Director of the venture capital firm, Sequoia India (Sequoia), accusing him of poaching employees from. Yadav was mired in several controversies.

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