For more than 15 years, Shailesh Pardeshi has navigated the wild terrain of the corporate world—from fast-moving startups fueled by creativity, chaos and constant pivots, to mature global organizations where even processes have their own processes. Along the way, he has seen teams form, dissolve, rebrand, regroup and occasionally forget why they existed in the first place. His entrepreneurial experiments have been just as adventurous: some ventures took off, while others disappeared so quietly that even Google lost track of them, yet each one taught him more about people, humility and humour than any title ever could. Passionate about product development, especially ideas that make everyday life better, he actively mentors students, emerging talent and early-stage innovators in product thinking and strategy. Though he always wanted to write, life kept interrupting him with deadlines, ideas, doubts and weekends too short to handle his to-do list. Eventually realizing there would never be a perfect day to begin, he started writing wherever inspiration ambushed him— in cabs, airports, chai stalls and even during long meetings where his mind wandered off on its own adventure.