56: Jayant Paleti on investment by SalesForce, why companies fail to digitalise and coming ahead in a cluttered HRMS market

Jayant Paleti [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantpaleti/] is the Co-Founder of Darwinbox [https://darwinbox.com/]. Recognised as the most preferred HCM solution in APAC by Gartner, Darwinbox is used by 550+ large enterprises to manage their end to end HR needs. Prior to Darwinbox, Jayant was an investment banker at Ernst & Young. Jayant worked across functions like M&A and private equity. He is an IIT Madras and IIM Lucknow alumnus. He has advised several large corporates on big investment and strategic decisions. A visionary of the underlying scope of HR Tech, Jayant heads all sales and marketing activities at Darwinbox. Given his exposure to the corporate org structure and human capital-intensive decision-making practices, he strongly believes the HR function can be a source of great competitive advantage for an organization. And also, that this underlying potential can be optimally harnessed through technology. What I discussed with Jayant: * Their investment by SalesForce * Why they are confident in coming ahead in Singapore's cluttered HRMS market * How to reduce digitalisation failures * Should companies digitalise during uncertain times? * And many more... Please enjoy! --- This episode is brought to you by Wanted. Wanted is a career platform from Korea, with over 10,000 companies and 2 million users using the platform for talent recruitment and career growth. Since 2015, Wanted's mission has been to bring fulfilment and happiness to all professionals around the world, offering the best job opportunities and best-in-class career content to support professional learning and growth. Adding on to the growth and innovation, Wanted introduces to you, RoundUp.  RoundUp is a video interview collaboration tool for every team. With a simple download of the Chrome browser extension, RoundUp invites you and your team to host hiring interviews on Google Meet, share interview evaluations, then round up all interviewer comments in a single dashboard; all to help your team efficiently reach the best hiring decision. It is currently free and available on roundup.ai [https://bit.ly/2Ua2Bgp] --- Who should I speak with next? Please let me know at adrian@adriantan.com.sg Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review [https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-adrian-tan-show/id1525515088]. It will help bring the episode to more people. 📲 Follow me online: * Youtube @AdrianTan18 [https://www.youtube.com/c/AdrianTan18] * Twitter @adriantan18 [https://twitter.com/adriantan18] * Facebook @adtan [https://www.facebook.com/adtan] * LinkedIn @adriantanck [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriantanck/] * adriantan.com.sg [https://adriantan.com.sg/]