Cool & Candid

Is 21 too young to build something huge

Naresh talks to Manish Chhabra

Every company says it wants fresh talent and deep experience. Most end up picking one and calling it a strategy.

He Has Been Building AI Years Before It Was Even a Buzzword

Naresh talks to Sanford Redlich

He was writing code by hand at just the age of 12, years before compilers, let alone AI, could do it for him. Since then, he's led engineering teams at Twitter, Google and Roblox, and was building AI systems back in 2006, long before the rest of the world caught up.

Stop trying to change you life overnight. Start small

Naresh talks to Teena George

We all know what we should be doing. Sleep on time. Exercise. Read more. Spend less time scrolling. So why is changing our behavior so much harder than simply knowing what to do?

From ₹2,000 in a servant's quarter to building Naukri, 99acres and Jeevansathi

Naresh talks to Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder of Info Edge

Naukri · 99acres · Jeevansathi

He started one of India's first internet companies before most people here had internet, and decades on he is still building. Sanjeev takes Naresh through the lean early years at Info Edge, what he looks for before he backs a founder, and why patience beats pace when you are building something meant to outlast you.

Gen Z, AI and the future of work: the warning every leader needs

Naresh talks to Dr Elton Ron Nathan, leadership coach and facilitator

Fortune Leadership Top 30 HR Leader · aviation, L&OD

A career across aviation, learning and organisational development gives Dr Elton an unusual read on people. His argument: stop asking which generation is right and start asking what each one can teach the other — and treat AI as something that enables your thinking, not something that drives the car.

When does a workplace actually become inclusive?

Naresh talks to Sonali Dutta, Founder of Youmanize

A rainbow logo in June is not inclusion. After running into bias over her appearance, age and gender early in her career, Sonali went and built the culture she wished she had worked in. She and Naresh get specific about where DEI programmes quietly fail and what belonging looks like when it is real.

From neurodiversity to global leadership

Naresh talks to Danijel Brener, VP of Philips Sleep & Respiratory Care

100+ countries · $300M P&L

Danijel runs a turnaround spanning more than a hundred countries. He also found out he had ADHD late, and a routine check-up turned up a congenital heart condition. Fifteen marathons later, he talks about learning how you are wired and building a career around that instead of someone else's template.

The uncomfortable truth about work, AI and leadership

Naresh talks to Rebecca Sewell, Founder of META-U

Strategic advisor and executive coach

If everyone fits the culture you have already built, who is left to change it? Rebecca makes the case against hiring for culture fit, and walks through the part nobody warns founders about: what you have to let go of once the organisation scales past you.