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Rahul Yadav
There is a much-bandied term - nouveau riche. It's used loosely to describe arrivistes on the social scene who throw massive parties with a paid for VIP cast, invite everyone who is anyone to town and pay for media coverage. Ask people more about them, and possibly all you will hear are adjectives around the money. Few have little, if anything, to say about the person.
Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav, all of 26, has got adulation and ridicule in equal measure for his recent public comments. While many have found his outbursts immature, Mr Yadav has got his vocal band of admirers as well. They see in him the streaks of a genius rebel - an outspoken maverick, the Salman Khan of e-commerce. The man is irreverent yet indispensable (in spite of his indiscretions, Mr Yadav still has his job) and doesn't mind the publicity that gimmickry begets. What has also happened is that his verbal volleys have fetched Mr Yadav top-of-the-mind recall.If you analyse all the comments Mr Yadav has made so far, you will find that five sets of people have drawn his ire: investors (private equity funds), board members, poachers, peers and rivals. Actually, if you come to think of it, these are precisely the people that businessmen grumble about all the time - except board members, who they treat as rubber stamps and retainers. However, unlike Mr Yadav, they do so in private conv