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Looking back, were there any childhood or college experiences After you committed to SpotDraft, what were the three practical,
that hinted at your entrepreneurial streak; moments when you early actions you prioritized that most accelerated product-
realized you enjoyed building more than just coding? market fit?
Even in college, I was the guy who built tools for fun, not • We listened to what our users were saying. We built a review
because of a class or assignment, but because something felt tool, and then realized that lawyers spend their time on
inefficient and I wanted to fix it. I would hack productivity apps editors, so we built superpowers for editors. That’s when our
and automate workflows just for me. That instinct to build first, users started asking for approvals and workflows – and that’s
ask forgiveness later, foreshadowed the entrepreneurial path. how we journeyed towards becoming an end-to-end contract
lifecycle management platform.
• We made one workflow reliable and valuable so that trust
You left roles at global tech giants to build in India. Which early grew, which gave us permission to expand.
experiences shaped your appetite for product-led
entrepreneurship and the kind of company you wanted to create? • We engaged deeply with early users, to the point of
obsession. We celebrated their bug reports because that
Many organizations in India run on high-complexity workflows meant our product was in the critical path of their business.
built on spreadsheets and WhatsApp. To me, that’s a That validated the problem-worth-solving.
builder’s dream. It is an opportunity to create technology that
meaningfully changes how work gets done. That belief guided my
decision to return and build here. It wasn’t about cost arbitrage, Who were the people who mattered most in those formative
it was about tackling global scale problems from India.
months and can you share one piece of advice from them that
still guides how you build today?
Shashank grounded the product in real legal nuance. He
insisted we understand what lawyers actually care about
That instinct to build first, ask (risk, clarity, speed) and not just ‘cool tech’. Early engineering
forgiveness later, foreshadowed mentors reminded me: Reliability is the feature. If you can’t trust
it, nothing else matters. That balance and that optimal mix of
the entrepreneurial path. depth of capability plus rock-solid reliability, remains our core
philosophy.
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