Long before Twitter or WhatsApp dominated India, he built ActivMobs, a Twitter-like social network powered entirely by SMS. It blew up, but failed because it was radically ahead of its time.
Years ago, he co-founded a tech consulting firm that built a custom matrimony product. The product worked so well, it actually led to one of his co-founders getting married!
His consulting firm was later acquired by Gojek, currently Indonesia's only decacorn. Under his tech leadership, the platform's order volume exploded by a mind-melting 900x in just 18 months.
While most of India's IT services biggies are going through anxiety about AI disruption, he is confidently building an AI native IT services company that is already fetching 7 digit USD contracts!
Our next guest is
@ponnappa (Sidu Ponnappa), founder of realfast ai.
What we love most about him is his legendary willingness to serve up the ultimate black pills on tech, startups, society and corporate life. Those who have followed him on Twitter know what I am talking about.
Get ready for a fantastic episode on
@mundhebanni
Episode launching on Tuesday, 2nd June on Mundhe Banni YouTube channel and other podcast platforms
@Shishir_S_U @akaranth @kodlady
Any guesses on who our next guest on
@mundhebanni is?
Clue: He spent years mastering the art of moving millions of people across Southeast Asia on two wheels, without ever leaving Bengaluru.