Prashanth Tondapu

Obviously, as a software developer, you don't really have a domain as such, right?

And like I worked in medical, I worked in security and stuff like that.

But I was open to doing whatever, but something new.

And that is where I started building some products.

And being a software guy with marketing experience and stuff like that, you know how it goes.

You sit in your own room, imagine what the world needs, and you build it.

You spend one month heads down, build it.

I did that two or three times and tried whatever marketing I understood.

Got like 10,000 flyers printed, stood outside the buildings and trying to give them flyers so that they can use it and stuff like that.

Nothing worked.

Like almost two or three months, I was trying to do this, building everything, then going over there.

Nobody wanted the product.

Then there was one guy who said he mentors SaaS founders.

So I thought probably he'll teach me something which I do not know.

And I went and met him.

Apparently, he was mentoring a couple of other companies.

And he said, oh, so you're a tech guy.

So one of the companies that I'm mentoring needs some help.

Can you help them with that?

So I went there and they told me I'll have to take over as the director of engineering and stuff like that.