Avinash Raghava

I’ve often heard people use the expression “learn from your mistakes.” It’s really valuable, but I am going to offer up a new one: learn from your successes. Often, we celebrate a win but don’t examine the reasons behind it. We ignore the reasons for success, especially the quiet, unseen roles others played in it. […]

My hunch proved accurate when I finally met her in Chennai at our volunteer lunch a few months later. She had instinctively taken up roles where she was helping people at the event. It may have been her first time at that meeting, but she glided effortlessly across the room when talking to people.

When I first met Sathya, he was a product manager at Chargebee. Krish spoke highly of Sathya. “Sathya is unique,” Krish told me. “He is a deep thinker and will obsess over details.”