“Answered my panicked midnight Slack with 'breathe, we'll fix it together.' Then actually did.”
“She let me run the experiment everyone thought was dumb. It worked, and she made sure the room knew it was my idea.”
“Owned a missed quarter to the board himself and pointed at zero names. The team would walk through walls for him.”
“Gave the messiest brief I've ever seen one rule: make it feel inevitable. Best constraint of my career.”
“He fought finance for a full week so two designers could go to a conference. Invested in us like it was obvious.”
“She hired me with a gap on my resume nobody else would look past. Bet on people, not pedigree.”
“Walked the warehouse floor at 2am during peak. Asked the ops guys what was broken and actually fixed it.”
“She remembered my mother was unwell and told me to go home before I asked. Built a company that felt human.”
“Defended a junior PM's roadmap to leadership when it would've been easier to fold. Spine, not politics.”
“Sat with three real sellers before letting us touch Figma. Taught me that talking to users isn't a step, it's the job.”
“He made me write the press release before the spec. Changed how I think about building, forever.”
“She turned a team that dreaded standups into one that actually talked to each other. No framework, just trust.”
“Said 'that's my call, not yours' the one time a deploy broke. Took the heat so the intern didn't.”
“She blocked a launch to protect the on-call team's weekend. First manager who treated burnout as a real bug.”
“He gave me the hardest problem on the team and the air cover to fail at it twice before I got it right.”
“One of the best design leaders and clear thinkers in consumer”
“One of the best VC leaders - and one of the best consumer tech investors in India point blank”
“One of the best product leaders - pragmatic and demonstrates immense bias for action”
