Noah Labhart

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Ashwin Agrawal came to the US when he was 17 to Rochester for school.

He now lives in the Bay Area and admits he misses his friends on the East Coast as they all stayed on that side of the US.

That said, he does not miss the winters.

He has been building his current venture for three to four years and prior to that, he was at Google for a decade, a part of Google Cloud's huge growth trajectory.

Outside of tech, he has a family with two middle school sons with whom he likes to spend a lot of time with, hiking or eating good sushi.

Ashwin was laid off from a few jobs in the past.

After experiencing this, he vowed to build a solution that would help people going through this sort of experience.

After the last layoff, he formed his company at 4.30 a.m.

in the morning to help anyone at point A wanting to go to point B.

This is the creation story of Mobius Engine.

Let's dive into what you would consider the MVP for Mobius Engines.

That first version of the product you built, maybe it was shortly after that 4.30 a.m.

formation.

But I'm curious about that first MVP and what sort of tools you were using to bring it to life.

This episode is sponsored by Brain Grid.

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