When Housing .com chief executive Rahul Yadav 's incendiary email to Sequoia India managing director Shailendra Singh leaked on Quora in March, it kick started a social media storm that raised concerns on the conduct of Yadav. In retrospect, it also triggered the recent upheaval at the company, that eventually led to investor SoftBank taking the reins at the Mumbai-based online realty startup.Earlier today, Yadav talked about the ​ Sequoia Capital incident, his recent move to give away his shares to Housing employees and his ESOP challenge to Zomato and Ola founders among others, during his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.Yadav said that Sequoia Capital had initially decided on a slided deal between 10%-15% (depending on performance) for $1 million funding. However, after 2 months of due diligence, when they realized Housing was running out of money, they said they instead want to do a flat equity deal, to which Yadav agreed.But both of them seemed to have disagreed on the company ownership size post the investment. Yadav said - "Let’s do it at 12.5%. They said 14.75%. When I requested more, they said "Let’s not waste each others’ time". We were left with no option".Yadav termed them as "culturally a very cut throat VC" and "they have done it with lots of other ventures (TFS, Ola, Dexetra, LetsBuy..)". He added "Sometimes I think that’s why they’re more successful than others. But I still condemn their practises because I feel they’re inhuman and for me, people are the ‘why’ for everything I do."As for Yadav's recent ESOP challenge to Zomato's Deepinder Goyal and Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal , that was remiscient of the ' Ice Bucket Challenge ' last year, he said while all startups have been giving ESOPs to their employees, it's currently not proportional to the value being created. "Value is being created at x rate and is being given to the employees at y rate. x not being equal/proportional to y is the real issue".Hence, he nominated Goyal and Aggarwal for this challenge. It however met with derisive comments from both the founders.In March, Goyal had mentioned during a similar Reddit AMA session that they currently have one of the largest ESOP pools in Indian Internet segment right now. Around 10% of Zomato is in ESOP pool and they constantly top it up on every round. Goyal had also claimed that around 25 people at Zomato have already been able to sell their shares in the secondary market until now.Investors in Housing were also earlier considering a proposal to return about 10 lakh shares to the company to increase the pool of employee stock options and attract top talent. Housing.com investors were keen to have a bigger pool for ESOPs that can be used to lure talent to the startup, which has been struggling to close key hires, a headhunting executive privy to developments at the company, had told ET "The idea is to incentivize new management to the company" this person said.During the AMA session, Yadav said they are increasing the ESOPs pool, however he didn't disclose any specific information on it.(Image source: Rahul Yadav on Reddit