Raghuveer Kancherla leans to the side and smiles. He’s listening to his co-founder Girish Redekar talk about him. They’re not in the same room. They’re not in the same pin code. But Raghu leans towards Girish on that Google Meet call. The chemistry across the pixels is visible. “He has…

Nemesh Singh started Appointy in Bhopal with jigra and jugaad. Now, through order and organisation, he and his team want to make the scheduling app a global unicorn. Nemesh Singh is a car guy. But in 2014, when he bought a brand new BMW, it was not because of his…

When I first started working in the not-for-profit world, there was no name for what I was doing. All I knew was that the newer and smaller companies needed handholding. I met founders, I understood where they were coming from, interviewed them about the hurdles they had to leap over…

Human existence has always been about celebrating talent and putting a premium on some kinds. A very rare quality that often goes unnoticed — but goes a very long way in cementing relationships — is about remembering names. Business leaders in their lifetime meet thousands of people and oftentimes, it…

A decade ago, after a disastrous pitch, Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka stumbled upon a problem and fell in love with it. Data has ruled their lives ever since. After using it to solve social issues with SocialCops, they are now fixing metadata for enterprises as Atlan. You never forget…

Founders in India have started building high-quality products. These products have the ability to go global. But in order to go global, you need to be able to understand the difference between building for India and building for the US. Unfortunately, they’re not the same. This is primarily because the…

Once an aspiring pilot, Pushpendra Agrawal dropped everything to start his cloud communication platform from Indore. But as his laser focus remained on bettering the product, MSG91’s sales did not take off as it could have. Here is what happened Pushpendra Agrawal had $1,000 and two options that summer in…

A bounty of learnings emerged over the course of curated roundtables, a cricket match, some hiking, delicious food, and heart-to-heart chats with founders. These are my collected thoughts from the SaaSBOOMi Caravan that rolled into the Valley. As my flight touched down in the US on September 14, I was…

Anand Chandrasekaran had a staid academic life and Ashwini Asokan had a sparkling corporate career when they quit to create a version of AI that could exist not just in labs and sci-fi books but in people’s hands. Here is how that happened. “The clock has to start ticking. The…