433. The Long Game: Opportunity, Excellence and Institutional Power
Nidhi Shanbhag, Veena Satish, Shreya Krishnan with Srinivas Gorur
Show Notes
Opportunity is abundant. Outcomes, however, are strategic.
The three women on this panel have navigated all of it. Venture capital and enterprise strategy. Global talent transformation. The slow, necessary work of making the technology industry legible to the women coming up behind them. Startups built from scratch and careers that kept becoming something new.
They have done this inside institutions that weren’t built for them, in markets that moved before they were ready, in moments that required a decision before the picture was clear. Together they examine how signals and opportunities are recognised, and sometimes missed. How excellence is sustained over decades, not just built in a moment. How to navigate boards, capital, and institutions. How and when to seek help from the mentors, sponsors, and allies who make the difference.
The answers come from lived experience. The lessons, hard-won as they are, turn out to be universal.
This event is a part of our programming to celebrate International Women’s Day. Music, theatre, and conversation: by women, for everyone.
In this episode of BIC Talks, Rajani Surendar Bhat, Kiran Keswani and Sarayu Natarajan will be in conversation with Nia Thandapani. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in Mar 2026.
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