This episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) podcast hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Vetri Vellore.

Vetri is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record and over 25 years of experience building successful products and businesses. He has helped thousands of leaders and teams leverage the OKR framework. Vetri was the CEO and founder of the successful OKR software startup, Ally.io. After Microsoft acquired Ally.io in 2021, he become the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Viva Goals, continuing the mission to bring purpose, happiness and productivity to work. 

A few nuggets from and lessons from the episode:

• Building great products: Differentiate products from competitors by listening to customer insights, creating frictionless and integrated user experience, attention to smallest detail.

BALL podcast extracts best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Ravi Venkatesan.

Ravi is the board chair of Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, founder of Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, a coalition which aims to create 10M entrepreneurs in India by 2030. He was previously the chairman of Microsoft India, chairman of the board of Bank of Baroda, and co-chairman of the board of Infosys. He is also the UNICEF Special Representative for Young People and Innovation.

His best advice and key lessons from the episode:

• On mindset - Growth mindset, agency, responsibility, abundance - What leadership in the 21st century means, how to be a leader

BALL podcast is a show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Bob Davis. Bob is the Corporate Vice President Growth & Experience at Microsoft. He is a founding member of what became Office 365 and has occupied leadership positions since its inception to becoming a fast-growing multi-billion-dollar business, perhaps the biggest enterprise SaaS business - with millions of customers and hundreds of millions of users.. You don't want to miss this.

His best advice and key lessons from the episode:

• Building and running multibillion dollar enterprise SaaS (Office 365) from scratch

and more.

On the BALL is a podcast show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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Imagine you're 8 years old slowly losing your eyesight, while and many of your fellow 8-year friends could be seen riding bicycles, shooting baskets, or frolicking on nearby playgrounds.

This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Lex Gillette. Lex is the best totally blind long and triple jumper in the history of the U.S. Paralympic movement. He is the current world record holder in long jump, a four-time Paralympic medalist, a three-time long jump world champion, and an 18-time national champion. He is an athlete, motivational speaker, and singer song writer.

In this episode, he shares his his advice and lessons on courage in the face of extreme adversity, motivation, optimism, being black while blind and inspiring life lessons.

On the BALL is a podcast show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Lan Ye, Lan is the Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Teams Calling, Meetings and Devices group, She leads a team of product managers and engineers who are obsessed with making workplace communications simpler and more inclusive.

On the BALL is a podcast show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President who leads product & engineering teams for Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, that empower more than one billion people around the world to collaborate at work, home, and school. In this podcast Jeff shares his best advice & lessons from his journey at Microsoft, building great products, leadership lessons, advice for  aspiring software engineers, insights from multibillion dollar product categories like SharePoint and much more.

On the BALL podcast focuses on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Scott Van Vliet, Corporate Vice President who leads a product & engineering org at Microsoft that powers Microsoft Teams and Skype. In this insightful podcast Scott shares his best advice & lessons on leadership, his career trajectory, hiring & retaining world-class talent, future of remote work, and insights from industry leaders and much more.

On the BALL podcast focuses on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Walt Mossberg often known as the kingmaker of tech products, who pioneered the modern, consumer-focused, technology review and commentary. He shares his best advice & lessons on entrepreneurism, the power of personal brand, insights from some of the industry leaders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Hawkins & others.

The show focuses on best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders, deconstructing and teasing out their routines, habits, tactics, techniques, and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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This podcast episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Brian MacDonald, who created several multi-billion dollar products, product categories and businesses at Microsoft -- from Microsoft Project, Outlook and then went on to build what's now the fastest growing app in the history of company-- Microsoft Teams. The show focuses on best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders (from various walks of life, mostly business, tech), deconstructing and teasing out their routines, habits, tactics, techniques, and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received.

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