Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Dinesh Varadharajan at Kissflow on how less can be more in a highly relevant product
Our guest today is Dinesh Varadharajan, vice president and chief product officer at Kissflow, a no-code software pioneer. In this conversation, Varadharajan talks about lessons in perfecting a product, like how less can be more and pitfalls to avoid. He also talks about Kissflow's next product—a low-code software package with advanced customisation features aimed at the IT team
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Achuthanand T Ravi, co-founder and CEO at Kula, on surfacing passive, hidden talent for recruiters
Our guest today is Achuthanand Tanjore Ravi, co-founder and CEO of Kula, a startup that is aiming to make life easier for recruiters around the world. In this conversation, Achuthanand talks about his own experience dealing with the frustration of finding the right talent quickly in multiple companies that he worked with, and the lessons and customer feedback that has gone into some of the innovations in the product Kula.ai
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Arun Vinayak, CEO of Exponent Energy, on the quest for ultra-fast charging for EVs
Our guest today is Arun Vinayak, co-founder and CEO of Exponent Energy, a battery and charging technologies provider for the electric vehicle market in India. Vinayak, who was part of the founding team and chief product officer at e-scooter maker Ather Energy, started Exponent in 2020 to tackle the problem of quickly getting power into EV batteries from the grid. He has raised about $6 million in funding so far and expects to see his products in the market this year
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Arvind Parthiban, CEO of SuperOps, on solving problems for managed services providers in the post-Covid world
Our guest today is Arvind Parthiban, co-founder and CEO of SuperOps, a Silicon Valley and Chennai SaaS startup that is automating a bunch of processes for small managed services providers. In this conversation, Arvind talks about co-creating SuperOps with several MSPs, why SaaS startups are increasingly looking at more features from the get-go, and a new round of funding as well—led by Lee Fixel's Addition
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Srikrishnan Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane, on vital market lessons in SaaS product development
Our guest today is Srikrishnan Ganesan, who is on his second successful venture, building cloud software products for the enterprise market. In today's conversation, Srikrishnan talks about some of the lessons he learned from the market that helped him and his co-founders focus on what customers wanted versus what was dear to the entrepreneurs
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Keshav Murugesh, Group CEO of WNS, on the next phase of the evolution of the BPM industry
Our guest today is Keshav R Murugesh, group CEO of WNS, one of India's largest business process management companies. In this conversation, Keshav talks about how the sector, which started out as cost-saving based business process outsourcing, grew to provide more business value and is now an engine for the digital transformation of some of the world's biggest companies in areas including financial services, travel and healthcare
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Adith Podhar, founder of Gemba Capital, on the journey from crepes restauranteur to micro VC
Our guest today is Adith Podhar, founder of Gemba Capital, who is just wrapping up a $10 million fund to invest early in India's next generation of tech-native startups. In today's conversation, Adith talks about going from being a restaurant owner trying to popularise crepes in India to working in private equity, to turning venture capital investor
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Microsoft's Activision deal: Forrester's Mike Proulx and Will McKeon-White tease out the nuances
Our guests today are Mike Proulx, VP and research director, and Will McKeon-White, analyst at Forrester—a leading technology strategy advisor to businesses around the world. In this conversation, they point out how Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard brings the enterprise cloud software maker out of stealth as a gaming and consumer company, as it takes a dominant position in what is essentially ground zero for the metaverse
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Manas Fuloria, CEO of Nagarro, on the digital product engineering company's next phase of growth
Our guest today is Manas Fuloria, CEO (custodian of entrepreneurship in the organisation) of Nagarro, an Indian heritage software services company listed in Germany. In this conversation, Manas talks about the 13,000 strong product engineering company's future and his own entrepreneurial journey—from apparel to education to software
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Chitresh Sharma, CEO of Refyne, on why accessing salary should be as easy as ordering pizza
Our guest today is Chitresh Sharma, a serial entrepreneur, whose latest venture, Refyne, has notched up over 700,000 users and funding of some $106 million in under a year, backed by investors including Tiger Global. In this conversation, Sharma talks about why he thinks Refyne will go on to be the category creator in India for earned wage access
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Sandipan Mitra, CEO of HungerBox, on going from cafeteria digitalisation to food tech platform
Our guest today is Sandipan Mitra, co-founder and CEO of HungerBox, his second venture in the food-tech scene. In this conversation, Mitra talks about persevering through Covid-19, and the long-term vision for the company—which has raised $16.5 million in funding so far—offering both a food tech SaaS platform and a food operations management service