Dileep Thazhmon
Appearances
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
There's a lot of armchair philosophers out there. And I would say that's like the number one skill you learn as a founder. You know, I talked earlier about trusting your gut instinct. There's so much bad advice out there. It's like probably like 90% of the advice is bad. even good advice becomes stale.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
You know, if an investor's been like an operator in the dot-com era, like most of their advice is already stale, you know? And so as a founder, you just get like massive amount of information, being able to parse through that and figuring out what is the good information and what is the bad or misinformation and kind of being able to throw that away. But also just being chill about it.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
You don't have to be mean about it or anything like that. If your father wants to give you a piece of advice that's irrelevant, just smile and nod your head.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
My biggest regret, I'm generally not a very regretful person. I generally just go through life and just assume that it is somewhat predestined. I'm going to make the mistake I'm going to make and just keep going. So I don't recommend regret in general. But I would say the thing that I would have loved to embrace earlier is really trusting my gut instinct.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
Every time I've listened to an investor who's otherwise like a very smart and knowledgeable person or really any kind of mentor or anything like that and went against my instincts because I thought, oh, they're an authority, they know what they're doing, we've made mistakes. and we've lost time.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And as I matured as a CEO, I've actually become a lot more comfortable in my skin in terms of just being able to make decisions, really gut-based decisions, and not really stressing over decisions a whole lot, changing my mind quite a bit to my chagrin of my team sometimes, where it feels like a little random. But I think that's really what...
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
building a startup is like, is that you need to explore a lot of things, and it's okay if some of those things don't work out, but don't do things just because you're expected to do them, or because someone said something that felt that it was authoritative for you. So I would say just trusting my instincts.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
Well, sometimes you have to be comfortable with taking a bit of a credibility hit for a short period of time. If really people on your team are not really trusting your decision or don't understand it, you have to build a culture where it is disagree and commit, right? People on your team need to be able to just say, okay, I'm not... fully on board with this, but I'm just going to go with you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
I'm going to trust your decision. Because otherwise, especially executive teams, if there's a lot of uncertainty and doubt, it becomes very hard to make these kind of fast and loose decisions. So I think it really comes down to the culture you've built and the team around you. And you extend this to other people as well.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
If someone's feeling really strongly in your team about something, let them do it and see what comes out of that.