Sukhi Gill, Co-Founder & CTO at Calitii: How to Succeed in Tech Without a Traditional Path
My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
4.2 • 5 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Episode Guest
A fully committed IT Consultant with over 30 years of industry experience. An outstanding record of achievement in sales and delivery of very large scale IT services in multi-billion dollar application development and infrastructure modernisation programs.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction to Sukhi Gill & Calitii
01:26 - From Stacking Shelves to Tech Leadership
03:00 - Hard Work and Balancing Education with Family Duty
04:50 - Learning to Code on a BBC Micro
06:00 - Defining Real Hard Work
07:30 - Delivering Value Before Moving Up
09:00 - Simplifying Tech for Business Users
11:00 - Building MVPs and Understanding User Outcomes
12:45 - Compromising and Career Balance
14:30 - Importance of On-the-Job Learning
15:30 - Saying “I Don’t Know” as a Superpower
17:00 - Lifelong Learning and Reverse Mentoring
19:00 - Learning Across Generations at Work
20:30 - Early Career Pivot & Mini MBA Experience
23:00 - Building Business Mindset in Tech
25:00 - Personal Loss and Career Resilience
27:00 - Feeling Disadvantaged and Overcoming Bias
29:00 - Turning Differences into Strengths
30:40 - Soft Skills vs. Technical Skills
33:00 - Top Three Soft Skills for Success
35:00 - Getting Excited About Startups
37:00 - Startup Culture vs. Corporate Barriers
39:00 - Culture Change and Innovation in Large Orgs
40:20 - Getting Frustrated & Founding Calitii
42:00 - Importance of Working Abroad
44:00 - Standing Out Without a Title
46:00 - Building a Personal Brand and Public Voice
47:30 - Empowering Young Talent to Present to Clients
49:30 - Courage Before Confidence in Tech
50:45 - Impressive Client Demo by Graduates
52:00 - Best Way to Enter Tech Today
54:00 - Building a Project Portfolio & Hackathons
56:00 - Advice for CEOs: Get Curious About Tech
57:30 - Reverse Mentoring and Learning from Gen Z
59:00 - Start with Employees to Understand Customers
1:01:00 - Practical Client Research Creates Rapport
1:02:45 - Final Question: Sukhi's Duvet Flip
1:04:00 - Closing Thoughts & Thanks
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm the CTO of Calati. We are a boutique with over 150 employees and this is my duvet flip. |
| 0:09.0 | I am so excited. Much appreciated. What does hard work actually mean? |
| 0:13.0 | Focus on successfully delivering what you're working on. |
| 0:17.0 | You have to go from having all the answers to all the questions. Just so you don't know. |
| 0:20.0 | Saying I don't know is such a superpower. |
| 0:23.2 | You've got to be able to size the problem and estimate what it would take to deliver it. |
| 0:27.9 | Are you ready for my final question? |
| 0:29.4 | Yes. |
| 0:30.2 | What's your duvet flip? |
| 0:31.2 | What keeps you out of bed in the morning to flip the duvet? |
| 0:33.6 | Uh, well... |
| 0:34.9 | Hello Otto, Sergei. |
| 0:36.2 | Hello, Mr. Alexander. |
| 0:38.3 | Are you looking for a credit card? |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, he's good. |
| 0:41.3 | With Otto Sergei's handy credit card feature, |
| 0:43.3 | he'll check your chances of approval before you apply |
| 0:46.3 | without impacting your credit score, |
| 0:49.3 | taking the guesswork out of finding a credit card. |
| 0:51.3 | Simples. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey, that's my line. So, Sooky, welcome to my dovee, Flip. How are you? |
| 1:29.1 | Very well, thank you. Thanks for having me here today. |
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