Learn from your mistakes and teach others how to improve from them. Sharing teachable moments helps inspire future generations.

Karthick Iyer

Karthick Iyer is the Vice President of Engineering for NVIDIA, a global computer hardware company that has pioneered PC gaming market and is modernizing Artificial Intelligence for worldwide usages in healthcare, accelerated computing, robotics, game development, autonomous cars and more. Karthick obtained his masters degree in Computer Science.

“Sometimes you have to be in the balcony and sometimes you have to be in the dance, you have to dive deep or sometimes you have to step back and look at the forest from the trees.”

3-Bullet Summary:

• Change is always there so you need to keep adapting and learning.

• Discussing and understanding the mistakes made helps leaders not repeat them again.

• Companies should work effectively on providing learning opportunities for the employees.

Podcast Quotables:

“Bringing people together, leveraging and communication are the fundamental pillars that Jensen (CEO of Nvidia) reinforces with us.”

“When leaders make mistakes, the people who end up paying the price are the employees.”

“People do make mistakes, and you can use mistakes as a launching pad or a stepping stone.”

• Good to Great by Jim Collins 
• Amazon Leadership Principles