I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is someone that fascinates me. He not only has achieved so much in life, but I have to say preparing for this interview, I found a

very genuine, very generous wise person sharing something that he's really

passionate about in a way that intrigued me.

You know, I tend to sometimes be told that I do well in business and I speak well in public and

you know I can relate to people and I never really understood some of the things that I do in the

background that make me as he says backable and his new book backable is actually describing really

interestingly what makes some people want to back other people up.

Sunil Gupta is the founder of Rice.

Rise is a startup in the health care space that has been sold to one medical.

A very, very interesting idea.

He is a faculty member at Harvard University.

He worked in multiple technology companies such as Groupon and Mosella and he has been a graduate of

law school worked as a product manager and a technologist and now is a published

author.

In Backable, Sunil talks about seven steps

that teach us the it factor, if you want,

of what makes you convince others to back you, to support you.

Sunil went from being the face of failure for the New York Times when an article about failure had him as the

example to the new face of innovation. His ideas have been backed by firms all the way from small individual investors, some of the venture capitalists, to Google Ventures.

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