ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
1 IDEA is a video show hosted by Sedai CEO Suresh Mathew where elite engineers go deep on one big idea that they are passionate about. No buzzwords. No fluff.
No marketing. Just ready-to-deploy ideas for engineering leaders who want to build better products and stronger teams.
Every episode features one engineering leader sharing the unconventional wisdom that changed how they build. The controversial opinions. The processes everyone else thinks are broken but actually work.
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Average audio length:
27 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
6 episodes
since Sept. 9, 2025
episodic
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Ashish Jha (now Director of Engineering @ Drata) built AWS Audit Manager - one of AWS's fastest-growing services ever - launching in 15 months with 1,000 customers turning it on in the first 24 hours.
On this episode of 1 IDEA, Ashish shares how extreme constraints - 3 months to prove it, 8 months…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Manish (VP of Engineering @ Cisco) watched AI write perfect code that created a disaster. When his team asked AI to add traceability, it invented a brand new framework instead of using the one they already had. Multiply that across 1,100 engineers, and suddenly you have dozens of competing implemen…
Salesforce needed a faster UI runtime, but rewriting everything without forcing customers to migrate seemed impossible.
On this episode of 1 IDEA, Kevin Hill (VP of Engineering @ Salesforce) shares how backing his team’s “impossible” ideas led to the one idea that unlocked Salesforce’s UI overhaul…
Rachit Lohani (fmr. CTO @ Paylocity) has seen the same pattern everywhere: engineering leaders getting hammered with "Why aren't we more productive with AI?"
Teams are using AI. They're writing more code. But nobody can answer whether it actually matters.
For his one idea, Rachit breaks down why …
Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering at Augment, learned the hard way that being the go-to problem solver was actually "diminishing the intelligence" of his team.
Years ago at Pure Storage, his manager's brutal feedback forced him to develop the "Bottleneck Test": a framework he uses to scale teams a…
Mohit Aron has built 2 companies to $10B+ (Nutanix & Cohesity) by telling his engineers to ignore "minimum viable product" and build what customers actually love. He says you can NOT build a billion-dollar business by using the same strategy as everybody else — like giving points to engineers f…
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