KR Sridhar

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1,114 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

KR Sridhar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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They're all going out in the field and failing spectacularly.

And it's a shock because in those early days, they're expensive first units.

Reputation is on the line.

So I go, this cannot scale.

So I just stopped production.

I call my board and I say, I need help.

I need people to come and help me.

Tell me how to do manufacturing.

I don't know.

One of the people that come,

is Andy Groh, who became a great friend and a mentor, and a valley legend.

And then there are some other manufacturing gurus.

One of them was on my board.

So we were asked to compile all the data we had.

So we have three ring binders after three ring binders.

Now we are talking about the time when we still used paper for everything, right?

So we had them all packed.

We had an entire executive team sitting on one side of a large boardroom.

These great advisors sitting on the other side, including Andy Groh.

And we had dinner ordered and we had all these stacks.

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