Ep 32: Ashish Hemrajani of BookMyShow says he's a cockroach, and not a unicorn

Who wants to be a Unicorn? It's almost every entrepreneur's dream to build a company that crosses the $1 billion dollar valuation mark. For investors too, the starting question is whether a pitching startup can become the next Unicorn. For Ashish Hemrajani, the cofounder of BookMyShow, who started his company in 1999, the journey is all about survival. “First of all, it's (Unicorn) a mythical animal, and an ugly one at that with a horn,” he tells me in this episode of Outliers. “I'm a cockroach; we survive. You put us in the middle of a nuclear holocaust or inside a microwave oven, we survive.” “We come to the trenches everyday, rolling our sleeves, we survive,” he says.