Winning Stroke: Interview with Mahesh Lingareddy, Founder, and Chairman, Smartron

1) If not in the current Profession, you would be?
If I were not an engineer and an entrepreneur, I would be a farmer.

2) One Book to read when you want to motivate yourselves?
Churchill by Roy Jenkins

3) One Dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most?
Those who never change their mind never change anything - from the movie Darkest Hour.

4) The Place you never been to and always want to go?
North and South poles

5) An animal that signifies you & why?
Lion because of his leadership and loyalty 

7) A Movie Character you most resemble or resonate with?
Tony Stark 

8) Choose one from each below :      

a) Marvel or DC
Marvel

b) Batman or Superman
Superman

c) Tom or Jerry
Jerry 

10) Luck or Hard Work, What do you think weighs more in defining a successful Person?
Hard work weighs more but luck is needed.

11) One best decision you ever made?
Leaving Intel to start Soft Machines.

12) A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in Personal or Professional life?
Instinct and intuition-driven 

13) Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?
I seek my wife’s advice in times of dilemma.

14) What has been your biggest achievement?
Leaving Intel and then starting, building and selling Soft Machines, a CPU start-up to Intel.

15) One thing that you want to change in yourself?
Stress management

16) A line said by your closed one that you never forget?
If you are successful, society treats you like a genius. But, if you fail, the same society brands you as arrogant and dumb.