Amit Srivastava
- Previously
- The Truth about Myths, launched in 2016 by Lord Meghnad Desai
- Ventures
- Ezytaxi · College to Company · PixoMap
- Global experience
- GSK, Cargill Foods and Olam International, with consulting work for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
The question that follows him
Amit Srivastava is an entrepreneur, strategy consultant and facilitator. He helps leaders turn plans into action. He believes a plan on paper can disappear the moment it meets reality and risk. Progress depends on leaders asking uncomfortable questions of their teams, and harder still, of themselves.
Where the work has been
He has spent twenty-seven years in start-ups, global companies and the public sector, in India and in Africa. One question has followed him through all three: why do capable people with a sound plan still fail to deliver? He works in that gap: designing strategy, carrying it out, and the leadership that has to hold both.
Built as well as advised
Ezytaxi was an inter-city taxi service he started from nothing. College to Company was a skills venture between the campus and the employer. PixoMap is an iOS travel companion, built so people search less and see more. Over the past three years, he has implemented AI projects in his own ventures and advised companies on AI strategy and implementation. He still writes software in the evenings. He builds, advises and writes, often in the same week.
The first book
The Truth about Myths was launched in 2016 by Lord Meghnad Desai. It asked how mythology has shaped Indian society, and why the story has to change. This book asks a narrower question: how do you inspect an AI-assisted decision before a fluent answer turns into a commitment?
Outside the work
He is a photographer whose work has been recognised by the Embassy of Japan, and has been a practising Vipassana meditator for seventeen years. He works, watches and tells stories about what is not seen.
“A right answer to the wrong question is more dangerous than an unclear answer to the right one. Solving the wrong problem perfectly wastes everything.”
Amit Srivastava