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.
Being a better leader: Balance optimism and paranoia with tenacity and conviction.
Have core values: to guide everything you do. His own values are transparency, trust, excellence and customer obsession. The notion of customers first, business, team and then self.
Hiring decisions: First alignment of values, potential to be 10x better and unstoppable attitude.
Prioritize family: Create habits to balance work and personal life, like waking up at 4:30am so he can spend the evenings with his family.
Writing gratitude journal and affirmations: Really helps lead a better life.
Early career advice: Dream big, pay attention to details, focus on learning (vs. earning) early on.

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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