Brick by Brick: Failure as Silicon Valley’s Greatest Export - Avanish Sahai, fmr Salesforce, ServiceNow, Hubspot

Avanish Sahai is a former technology executive with experiences in product, marketing, and ecosystems. He has held leadership positions at both early-stage and established companies including Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Cloud. Avanish has served on the boards of tech companies HubSpot, Birdie.ai, and Scribe, as well as of non-profits World Affairs and BayBrazil.

Born in India, raised in Brazil, and now a US citizen, Avanish is an avid traveler (50+ countries). The world is home; he is increasing his focus on philanthropy and investments.

In this episode, we cover -

- Avanish's experience in a high-performance culture of the early days of Oracle - Importance of "people" in determining the future success of a company - The different stages of a software company - Avanish's early days at Salesforce - Why product marketing & storytelling is so important for B2B businesses - Why relationships & trust matter a lot in building a successful career - What it's like to be a global citizen

& lots more.. Links:

Follow Avanish on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/asahai/)

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Brick by Brick is presented by Garuda Ventures (https://garuda.vc).

About Garuda Ventures:

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused pre-seed and seed venture fund. Garuda is a first-check firm and aims to earn the right to be a founder's first call as they go about building their companies. To learn more, visit https://www.garuda.vc

Today's episode was hosted by Arpan Punyani. Find Arpan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpanpunyani/), Substack (https://arpanpunyani.substack.com/) or X/Twitter (https://x.com/arpanpunyani)

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