
What is your fondest memory of something that happened in your business? by Sriram Vijayakumar
During my bachelor’s degree, I ran a small DVD rental business on the side – buying and renting out movies. It was tiny and informal,

During my bachelor’s degree, I ran a small DVD rental business on the side – buying and renting out movies. It was tiny and informal,

EvidenceToScale helps deep-tech companies and investors answer one question: can this promising technology really scale? I come from aerospace, where ideas are never enough. Technology

Building my profile – the advisory roles, the books, the podcast, the credentials – isn’t vanity work; it’s what opens the door before a conversation

A perfect day would be made of the following attributes: – Sport – Good food – Family time – Productive work

When things feel hopeless, I go back to documentation – I open my own tracking notes across board mandates and reread how a past situation

I expect boards to stop treating leadership sustainability as an HR initiative and start treating it as a governance issue. Director surveys already show the

My perfect working environment is quiet, unstructured time in the mornings, before calls and obligations take over – reading, writing, and thinking clearly, without interruption.

When it comes to software, Zoom is the anchor of my business, bridging my work in holistic human transformation and leadership coaching. My practice thrives

I once accepted an advisory role too quickly, without doing enough independent diligence on the promoter’s track record and the company’s real financial health, because

I believe the recruitment indsutry has a slightly unhealthy obession with CVs. More CVs. Faster CVs. Better VCs. 47 CVs by Friday! But here’s my

I’d choose Warren Buffett. Everyone studies his investment philosophy, but what fascinates me more is his governance discipline – decades of consistently choosing management teams

If I could have dinner with any entrepreneur, it would be Steve Jobs. His ability to envision and create the iPhone, at a time when

My best time-management hack? I’ve stopped trying to do everything! I usually have a lot going on: demanding job, MBA, training and just generally life!

The mistake I learned the most from was not building a strong network during my earlier years of work. As an introvert, I often avoided

I most often listen to business, entrepreneurship, and personal-development podcasts, especially shows focused on mindset, leadership, sales, and building businesses. My main favourites are: *

With The One Billion Dollar Billboard, I tend to push for moving quickly, testing ideas with real customers, and learning from the market rather than

I used to believe that being successful meant doing more, working harder and being involved in everything. I thought being needed was a sign of

Find a mentor, and be humble enough to listen to one. I wasn’t. I was too stubborn and too arrogant to believe anyone could teach