Spotlight: Ujj Nath, CEO of myKaarma

First job? Pet peeve? Ujj Nath, CEO of myKaarma, answers 15 questions as first published by Automotive News.

Ujj Nath is CEO of myKaarma, which provides communication and payment software for dealerships’ service and parts departments.

🚗 First car: Honda Accord Coupe

🎶 First concert you attended: The Who, in Hollywood

👹 Name a pet peeve: People attacking problems without knowing the root causes

✈️ Most thrilling/adventurous thing you’ve done: Flew in an aerobatic plane over Long Beach at 10,000 feet

🏀 Your personal hero, and why: Kobe Bryant — the killer instinct

💼 First job: Started my first company one day out of college making spare parts for mining equipment

🛩️ Something on your bucket list: Fly in the back seat of an F-18 or Blue Angels flight

💲 One thing you learned on the job you never forgot: Back in India at my first company, we missed payroll for three months and I found out when grocery stores stopped giving credit to my employees. Lesson: Always be cash flow-positive and collect your receivables.

🍝 3 people you’d invite to dinner, living or dead: Kobe Bryant, soccer player Lionel Messi and Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert

👨‍✈️ What did you want to be when you were a kid? Fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. I qualified, but was too young.

🖥️ Do you collect anything? Computer and technology memorabilia

📺 What’s your Netflix binge show? “The Wire”

📀 First album/CD you bought: “L.A. Woman” by The Doors

🎬 Favorite line from a movie: “You talkin’ to me?” Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver”

🎵 Who’s on your Spotify playlist? A mix of American, Italian and Indian music, and other rock and pop

*This article first appeared on Automotive News here.