Outbargaining Bill bhai

charukesi December 19th, 2007

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*

5 Responses to “Outbargaining Bill bhai”

  1. # Prashant OM Bhardwajon 19 Dec 2007 at 16.51

    Lovely post…

    We got a lot we can teach :)

  2. # harini calamuron 20 Dec 2007 at 08.01

    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 !!!

  3. # Jamon 20 Dec 2007 at 13.14

    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

  4. # Pallavion 24 Dec 2007 at 13.24

    hahahah… the picture you have painted in funny.. :)

  5. # Shantanuon 26 Dec 2007 at 16.16

    Heh! Yes, that is funny. I do remember Sabeer Bhatia mentioning this during an interview after the sold Hotmail to MSFT.