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Co-founder and CEO Sharat Potharaju talks about 13 years of persistence with SaaS, failed products and what holds back Indian companies.
It starts like a clichéd story. Two school friends, in their late 20s, have high-paying jobs in the US but no satisfaction. They dream of going back to their motherland and starting a business. Much to their professional, middle-class parents’ dismay. But they act on their plan anyway. They come back to India, work on a tech idea, launch their product and wait for success to take over.
Sharat Potharaju and his co-founder Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty first founded a SaaS company called MobStac in 2009. The product seemed promising and venture capital firm Accel immediately took a bet. But it …
The contrasting approaches are driven by two very different strategies. One wants to capture more markets; the other is focused on discipline and profits.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.