Srikanth Sudini

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes on solutions."
— Albert Einstein

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos on the 4 principles that differentiated Amazon from other companies

“The thing that connects everything that Amazon does — our #1 conviction, philosophy, and principle — is customer obsession, as opposed to competitor obsession. We are always focused on the customer, working backwards from the customer’s needs, and developing new skills internally so that we can satisfy what we perceive to be future customer needs.”

Jeff Bezos continues:

“It seems like we’re in a bunch of different businesses. We have Amazon Web Services, which is completely different from our Amazon Prime business or Amazon Marketplace or Amazon Studios and so on. But really the way that those businesses run are very similar, and it all starts with customer obsession. But it’s not just customer obsession.”

Pioneering is another critical principle for Amazon:

“We have a very inventive culture. We like to pioneer and invent. There are other very effective business strategies. Pioneering is not the only effective business strategy. In fact, some people would argue it’s not the most effective one. Close-following can be a very good business strategy, and it’s worked many times if you look at the history of business. But it just isn’t who we are.”

Willingness to think long-term is another one:

“That’s another common thread that runs through everything we do. We are very happy to invest in new initiatives that are very risky for 5-7 years. Most companies won’t do that. Companies will invest for very long periods of time in the cases where the outcomes are more certain, but it’s the combination of the risk-taking and the long-term outlook that make Amazon special.”

Taking pride in operational excellence is the final one:

“Doing things well. Finding defects and working backwards. That’s all the incremental improvement that most successful companies are very good at. If you’re not good at finding the root cause of defects and fixing that root cause — you don’t ever want to let defects flow downstream — that’s a key part of doing a good job in any business, in my opinion.”

Video source: @charlierose (2016)

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

Hire people with:

• High energy
• High integrity
• High work ethic
• High intelligence

These 4 areas make up 80% of a great hire.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

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[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

Success begets success

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

“We must never be too busy sawing to take the time to sharpen the saw, nor too busy driving to take the time to get gas.”

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

Still waters run deep.

In a world that rewards noise, never underestimate the power of quiet strength.

The best leaders, thinkers, and creators often move with calm intensity — steady, profound, unstoppable.

Surface-level gets attention. Depth gets results.

Build deep. Stay calm. Flow strong.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

THE WORLD CUP WINNING MOMENT 🏆🥹

Women's Recurve Team Final between India & host country China for the Gold Medal 🏅

The match went to the final shoot off, Deepika needed an 8 to win, and she shot the 9 to win!

Incredible Stuff by our Girls 🇮🇳❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️

Appreciation to mothers everywhere who brought us all into the world and nurtured their beloved children 🥰

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Here is what I tell our software engineers on how to thrive in the AI era: be very good domain experts. Programming skills are the foundation (and we definitely don't want to lose them) but deep domain knowledge is what customers pay for, along with reliability, security, support and compliance.

The productivity gains from AI are still hotly debated: we definitely get to a working prototype much faster but a finished product has a lot more to it and not all the stages can be sped up by AI.

That is why I advise our technical teams to not obsess about programmer productivity as a metric but focus on how we can offer a far better experience to customers using AI.

There is a lot of needless or incidental complexity in software that can be eliminated by AI.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

A pattern I've noticed in stuck people:

They're always busy. They never stop moving. They have 47 tabs open and a notebook-sized to-do list. But if you ask them what they accomplished this week that actually matters, their mind goes blank.

Busyness isn't a badge of honor.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Terafab will go down as the most important move Tesla has ever made to secure its AI future

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Here is Elon Musk's full TERAFAB presentation from tonight, with the waiting period at the beginning cut out.

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

The power of repetition!

[Srikanth Sudini @Sri_T20]

@idlebrainjeevi 😆