Sushanth (Shushant) Raman

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542 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E406: Why AI Won't Transform Most Enterprises for 10 Years · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Psychopathic, but that's just an extreme devotion to performance management.

The second thing is that he is able to cut through all the noise because there's lots of ways people can kind of go and you have like a manager level that sandbags, a VP level that sandbags, but he just kind of eliminates all the bullshit and keeps a high performance culture.

And the third is at scale, he manages intensities that very few startups have.

Like even startups might not have the same intensities as large organizations.

And like that's impressive to do at scale.

And I think his style of management is like what HBS would call like, oh, this is like anti-management practices.

But I do think there's something true to that style of management that more CEOs need to emulate.

What rings true about founder mode is that like,

You can't just be this person that sits, like, 200 feet above the ground or 2,000 feet above the ground, and you're just, like, making these decisions and having your VPs report to you on progress.

And you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's just, like, well, let me just let them run the company.

Well, I can do press.

I can do PR.

I can do all this stuff.

Like, that does not work because, like, fundamentally, the main reason that a CEO's job exists is to drive performance of their organization and to drive intensity, right?

And by default, like if you do not hold those standards and you don't keep those standards to an utmost high, no matter, even the best people need a little bit of pressure to kind of go ahead, right?

You just need to like set the standards above.

And I think that like is one thing that's true about Founder Mode is that you need to be fundamentally hands-on.

You can't be hands-off.

No great CEO has ever been hands-off.

Like there's very, very, very few CEOs.

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