Decision Making in Startups with Sunil Mukundan

In this conversation Sunil and Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting talk aboutHow he accidentally joined his friend in a startup, when his campus offer from a larger company was put on holdHis liking for software, right from the 6th grade, influenced greatly by his fatherHow various experiments and explorations he undertook, helped indirectly and subtly build his brand and portfolioHow the startup experience is like an adrenaline inducing activity and one has the opportunity to pick up anything related to the product and learn, as a startup is always short on handsLearning the ropes of programming in the large - as a team and the interfaces and experience of working with hardware that will run your softwareThat inputs could be from beyond just keyboard and mouseThe added complexities of enterprise software, where your code needs to integrate and work with other pieces that move on their ownWhy one should design enterprise products that are least disruptiveThe unique experience when you see your first customer actually deploying your solution in the enterpriseThis is an experience that one can get only in startups and a story where this learning happenedHis transitions from a startup employee, one of the initial employees  (founding members) in a startup to a co-founderUnderstanding the impact of ‘not now’ situations and decisionsThe significance of explaining the process, when someone is not clear about decisonsOn what he considers non-negotiable The key skills and aptitudes necessary for anyone to get into a startup His guidance on finding the right reasons to change, particularly mid-careerHow founding teams assemble themselves and an optimistic outlook for a career in ITSunil Mukundan likes to describe himself as a startup junkie who loves to build products from ground up and be a part of primal decision making in a company. He has, over the years, dabbled in video, compression, networking among others. co-authored multiple patents in the video delivery and networking domain.His linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-mukundan-9881563/