 "Housing CEO Rahul Yadav's email to ‘have fun’ with reporters gets mixed response on Twitter")
Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav has done it yet again. [caption id=“attachment_2320784” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Rahul Yadav. Image Courtesy: Facebook[/caption] The Housing.com CEO has a penchant for controversy, and the latest is Yadav’s supposed email about his response to questions from the media about reports of the sale of the company to classifieds site Quikr. An email meant for his employees, was leaked and posted multiple times on Twitter. In the message he admits that he gave different answers to different journalists on the question of the company being sold, all because he wanted ’to have fun’ and get a ‘cocktail of news in the morning’.
(1/2) While confirming that Quikr is buying Housing, we found an email sent to Housing employees. pic.twitter.com/vWQzHSRT92
— MediaNama (@medianama) June 30, 2015
The internet’s response was instantaneous. While ‘Rahul Yadav’ jokes were all over Twitter, Medianama said that they would temporarily suspend reporting on the company. The intention of the email was clearly to ‘have fun’, however it has cast aspersions on Yadav’s integrity. His actions may have been in jest, but he seemed unapologetic about deliberately misleading the media. Yadav is not new to such impulsive actions. Previously he has resigned and returned at Housing.com. Fresh reports of his resignation came last week and while Yadav dismissed them, many on Twitter dubbed him “ Steve Jobless ”. He also had a public spat with Sequoia Capital’s Shailendra Singh over poaching of staff, took on the Economic Times publicly over the leaked emails on which the report was based. He also reportedly gave away all of his Rs 200 crore personal equity in the company to his 2251 employees because he thought “it is too early in life to be serious about money etc”. Then he took on the owners of Zomato and Olacabs challenging them to give away at least half of their stakes in their respective companies to their employees, like him. As was evident from his AMA , soon after the above incidents, he is a witty, successful as well as a brash personality. Here’s what the Twitterverse had to say about the most recent development in the Rahul Yadav saga. While some criticised him:
Must say this Rahul Yadav of http://t.co/cB0y2ZzV9D is a genius, just the kind media needed to hold mirror to it pic.twitter.com/BpICZd4Ibb
— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) June 30, 2015
I think high time the entire media boycott http://t.co/vdogNfgvI3 and its eccentric CEO Rahul Yadavpic.twitter.com/JuOTlR9uvI
— Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) June 30, 2015
The young businessman’s move to troll the media won him over a fair share of fans as well.
And right now, this guy is showing bones to media and making them run like a dog. Kudos! RAHUL YADAV pic.twitter.com/cbWXrK5eHt
— Rahul Raj (@x_rahulraj) June 30, 2015
Impact Shorts
More ShortsMaster of all trolls #rahulyadav @Housing what #swagger :-) pic.twitter.com/bG3Fceafpt
— Dr. Apurva Chamaria (@a1purva) July 1, 2015
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