Prior to founding UXReactor, Satyam Kantamneni led various in-house design organizations such as Citrix and PayPal. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Satyam realized that most businesses aren’t leveraging the full power of User Experience (UX) Design as an engine for strategic growth. So, he resolved to change that. Through UXReactor, Satyam demonstrated that UX can and should drive enterprise-wide innovation and business outcomes. UXReactor has enabled its clients-partners to generate hundreds of millions in additional revenue from user-cen-tered innovation. Satyam is passionate about user-centered innovation and he has authored a book on it.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the most important thing to overcome always is finding people to work with you. And at that point or you are selling is a vision. It was fascinating in a lot of ways because all of the people that are highly capable and highly skilled don’t want to give up what they already are doing well on and join the journey of being an entrepreneur and not knowing if your next paycheck is going to come not come and what you are doing”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Book by Ed CatmullFavourite Quote:
” Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address
Recommended Online Resources:
- Y Combinator – created a new model for funding early stage startups Twice a year they invest in a large number of startups
- 500 Global is a venture capital firm with more than 1 8 billion¹ in assets under management that invests early in founders building fast growing technology companies
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Take it one quarter at a time. Don’t worry about trying to figure out where and how you will end up 10 years from now … Don’t let the destination mess with the journey and enjoy every phase of the journey and plan for every sub phase of the journey. But don’t plan for the big part because you don’t know where you will end up and what will happen, what resources, what the market … Don’t try to control them, don’t try to predict them just work in the first quarter or two ”…[Listen for More]
More About Satyam Kantamneni:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
Other Quotes From the Chat with Satyam Kantamneni:
- “I think just surrounded myself the right paid consultants… Once you build an ecosystem of people and consultants and peers that they can give you advice on a lot of things… I know part of a couple of CEO groups – I wish I had joined them a few years back because all of these peer groups, consultants and everybody are actually highly useful for scaling up…”
- “I think the secret to anyone’s success is resiliency and grit that you have around any topic of interest”
- “If somebody else can do it so, can you… It’s just a matter of time and a matter of process”
- “The day you become irrelevant is always a challenge”
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