T.N. Hari is an angel investor, advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. Hari has studied at IIT and IIM, and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups. His strength and passion are in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. LinkedIn identified him as one of the top voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018). Hari is a prolific writer, and has co-authored four books before this one, most recently Saying No to Jugaad: The Making of Bigbasket.

Bala Srinivasa is Managing Director, Arkam Ventures. He earlier worked for Kalari as a Partner in 2015. His twenty-one years of work experience is spread across two successful start-ups and also as senior equity analyst covering the software technology sector.