When Storytelling Saves a Failing Product — Suryakantham Ravi, UN Strategist Turned Tech Visionary
From the United Nations to war zones to high-growth tech — Suryakantham Ravi joins Anmol Gogia to unpack how storytelling saves failing products and careers alike.
About This Episode
In this Apex Dialogues episode of The Young Mavericks, host Anmol Gogia sits down with Suryakantham Ravi — a global technologist, author of Bold Moves That Matter, and someone who has worked across the United Nations, war zones and high-growth tech environments. The conversation dives into the power of storytelling in tech, what career reinvention actually looks like in practice, and how to make sound decisions under real pressure. Suryakantham draws on her background in crisis communication to explain what it takes to build meaningful work in uncertain times, moving from product failures to personal reinvention and touching on where AI fits into it all. It's a wide-ranging episode packed with insights for founders, product leaders, storytellers, and anyone navigating change.