Last month, the Gurgaon-based Yepme quietly shut down two of its units – warehousing and quality control – letting go of close to 30 employees. But founder Vivek Gaur insists that the move was towards the company’s growth, and not “because we have no cash.” (Hat tip toTechCircle, which reported about the layoffs first.)
Apart from names that rhyme, Yepme and Askme seem to have a similar trajectory towards disaster.
Yepme had to trim its workforce after it started outsourcing warehousing and quality audits to third-party vendors in India and the US.
And yet, according to the five employees we spoke to, Yepme

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