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Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Ravi Gupta. Ravi spent a decade in private equity at KKR before joining Instacart as their first CFO and COO. He navigated them through a critical moment in their history and returned to investing in 2019, as a partner at Sequoia. Our discussion gets to the heart of what it means to build and invest in great businesses, and we talk a lot about the personal side of the journey, which tends to get overlooked. Please enjoy this great conversation with Ravi Gupta.
"Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing"
Patrick
Where to begin this conversation? I think our favorite idea, you and I talk about all the time, is this beautiful, elegant sentence, keep the main thing the main thing. People have heard this before. I'm sure that people like the idea at its surface level. I'd love to spend the first part of this conversation really convincing people that this is an idea worth holding dear and taking very seriously. I have personally made this mistake, to not keep the main thing the main thing, so many times I can't even count and I've regretted it every time. It seems like one of those lessons you can only learn by a firsthand experience, but we're going to do our best to really ram this point home. So give me your opening salvo on this beautiful idea and why you take it so seriously.