Nikhil Suresh
speaker
2,502 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Nikhil Suresh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That that's why we don't do RFPs.
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Our marketing guy, David Kellum, so he gives us most of our advice on running the business because he's he's had a couple of successful exits with his own businesses.
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And David always said just don't
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Don't fucking bother.
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They probably already have a vet picked out.
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Yeah.
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And he said the best shot we have because the core of it is that companies are so bad at software that the RFP itself is malformed.
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They're asking for a software delivery model that won't work.
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So he said the only really ethical thing to do is submit a non conforming response.
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They go, Hey, we need these eight things and you go, I'm not giving you any of those eight things.
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You'll fucking die.
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It'll be terrible.
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So here's here's the one thing we're going to give you and you actually need it.
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And you know, he was like, That can work.
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I can't remember what percentage of the time he said, but I I think he might have said ten percent of the time, they'll respond and be really impressed.
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But it's just not worth the effort because it's really annoying to have to fill them out.
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You kind of forward a tent, right?
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Yeah.
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Very early in my career I met someone who I like this person, we get along well, but they had a pretty bad C V, but they beat a bunch of other candidates out for an analyst role.
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And in case they ever listened to this, they were totally competent and everything was great.
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