Leman Tech Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-28 · 51 min
▶︎ #164 | From Five Failed Products to 100-Person Company: Delegation, Detachment, and the Real Root of Burnout in Tech w/ Prashanth Tondapu (ex-@McAfee, @Innostax Tech LLC) In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Prashanth Tondapu: CEO of InnoStacks Tech LLC, a 100-person software services company with active R&D in LLM products. Prashanth's story is one many tech leaders will recognise all too painfully: a gifted developer who believed that passion for the craft was enough to build a business, went through five failed products before finding one that worked, and had to systematically shift his own identity to become the leader his company needed him to be. What makes this conversation stand out is Prashanth's unflinching honesty about the mistakes that shaped him: including building in isolation without validating demand, believing he was the smartest person in the room long after that was useful, and learning delegation only after burning himself out by being on every client call, terrified something would go wrong without him. The moment he finally stayed off a call, and nothing went wrong, he says, was the moment he was never the same leader again.
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