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Serial entrepreneur Rajat Suri, who co-founded Zimride/Lyft and took Presto public, shares hard-won lessons from 20 years of scaling companies.

Discover how he completely changed his career trajectory from wanting to be a doctor to entrepreneurship, why technical founders must branch out beyond engineering, and the surprising origin story of ride-sharing that started with a lonely drive in a family van.

Rajat reveals his counterintuitive management philosophy that replaced executive meetings with detailed written reports, explains how he pivoted Presto from restaurant tablets to AI voice technology before the ChatGPT boom, and discusses what it's like transitioning from public company CEO back to a startup founder.

Essential insights for technical leaders on building transparent organizations, navigating the physical-to-digital transformation, and why automation is taking longer than everyone expected.

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