Scrawny kid.
Navy SEAL.
Harvard MBA.
Single dad.
All of it true.
Bullies called me Feivel: the mouse from the Disney movies. I grew up as a scrawny, half-immigrant kid with no family in the military or business. No blueprint. No connections. Just a conviction that the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be was closeable — if I had the right mindset, habits, and systems.
Andrew Sridhar — about photo
Combat. Code. Capital. Science. The full operator's playbook — not aphorisms. Tools.
Most ex-military speakers bring one chapter to the stage. I bring that, plus 15 years inside tech and finance. First PM hired into Amazon Alexa AI. AI product leader at a16z-backed startups. Two stints in women's fashion — yes, really. Wall Street trader. Harvard MBA. And underneath it all: methods grounded in science. CBT for stuck thinking. PERMA for sustainable performance. Nervous-system regulation for high-stakes moments. Not war stories. Working tools.
The Arc
How you build something from nothing.
1999
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis. No family in the military. First generation everything. Graduated and commissioned as a Naval officer.
2001–2007
Navy SEAL Officer
BUD/S Class Leader. Earned the Trident. Commanded combat missions for a joint task force in Iraq. Bronze Star with Combat V for valor. Protected the Vice President of Iraq.
2007
Wall Street
Derivatives trader at Barclays Capital in electricity — the most volatile securities market on the planet. Learned to make decisions when every option feels wrong.
2010
Harvard Business School
MBA. The strategic and financial layer that makes the rest of the operator's playbook complete.
2012
Amazon — Alexa AI
First PM hired into Amazon Alexa AI. Built the product from the ground up. Created hundreds of millions in value before AI was the conversation everyone was having.
2015–2022
Tech Operator
AI product leadership at Andreessen Horowitz–backed startups, Capital One, Wayfair, and beyond. Spanning AI, logistics, healthcare, finance, and fashion.
Now
Inevitable
Keynote speaker. Executive coach. Host of The Warrior Poet podcast. Founder of Inevitable — helping founders and senior leaders build teams that move with ownership, speed, and judgment.
Off the Stage
The parts that don't fit on a speaker reel.
I'm a MENSA member who hacks at the guitar. A single dad who takes my kids to Childish Gambino concerts. An ADHD brain who reads too many books at once and grows hydroponic cucumbers in my basement. I think deeply about neuroscience, philosophy, food, and what it means to lead well — especially when it's hard.
I share this because the leaders I work with best are the ones who understand that performance and humanity aren't opposites. The SEAL who leads with love. The operator who reads Rumi. The founder who admits he's stuck. That's the room I want to be in.
Andrew — personal photo
ADHD Brain
Diagnosed, owned, and weaponized. The same wiring that makes focus hard makes pattern-recognition fast.
Single Dad
Two kids. Childish Gambino concerts. The most important leadership role I hold.
The Guitar
Hacking at it. Not performing. Some things exist just because you love them.
Hydroponic Cucumbers
Basement garden. Quiet systems. Growing things on purpose.
The Podcast
The Warrior Poet.
Conversations with people who've operated at the edge — founders, operators, athletes, traders, SEALs. 100+ episodes. The same curiosity that drives the coaching drives the show.
See all episodes →Why I Do This
I know what it looks like when organizations execute well. And when they don't.
I've been inside the rooms where the best teams in the world make decisions under pressure. I've also watched brilliant people fail to execute — not because they lacked talent, but because they were running the wrong system. Missing the right culture. Leading from the wrong identity.
Now I help founders and senior leaders do the thing they say they want to do: build teams that move with ownership, speed, and judgment. Not through platitudes. Through frameworks forged in places where getting it wrong had consequences.