Prime Venture Partners Podcast

12: Growing your organization xto10x with Saikiran Krishnamurthy


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Saikiran Krishnamurthy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saikiran-krishnamurthy-669998152/) (Saiki), Co-Founder and CEO xto10x (https://www.xto10x.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .On this conversation, they discuss how the idea of xto10x originated at a breakfast table with Binny Bansal, how business design can help with product-market fit, change management and a lot.Saiki spent 15 years at McKinsey & Company which he left (as a Senior Partner) in early 2015 to move to the startup ecosystem, first as the Head of Ekart (Flipkart’s supply chain business) and then as the Head of Marketplace at Ola.Across his 18+ year career, he has built deep global experience in strategy, operations and organisation and applied these as a senior leader in the startup ecosystem, using a product-first approach to solving business problems.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:25 - Why Saiki, Neeraj & Binny started xto10x2:30 - Learnings from McKinsey that proved useful at Flipkart & Ola5:30 - How a growth stage startup can be ready for the next set of problems7:30 - How to do self-assessment as a founder10:45 - Why do orgs stop adapting11: 55 - Why you should think of org as a product13:40 - How org design affects hiring process14:45 - Questions to ask when hiring for leadership position16:30 - Why founders should spend time on storytelling17:45 - How founders can continue to stay relevantFor transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/growing-your-organization-xto10x-saikiran-krishnamurthy/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/

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