Choosing a Healthy Mindset After Losing $400 Million — with Karthik Suresh

Karthik is the founder of Ignition. He’s not only raised $5 million for his latest venture but his product has also just been launched on Product Hunt. 

Today we go back to a moment that made the history books. 

August 2012. When Karthik was working for The Knight Capital Group. 

It was 9 am and all the systems were running after a software update. But something wasn’t right. 

In less than an hour, a bug in the system had created the greatest trading loss in the history of Wall Street, worth $400 million. 

And the company was almost bankrupt. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Karthik about his learnings since that day and how it’s helping him in business. 

We talk about

• Building resiliency to change
• How different companies adapt to change
• Understanding and building your roadmap for work and life

Karthik echoes the teachings from that day with clarity. And shares how he manages the moving parts of business and life while still keeping things human. 

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