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Prashanth Tondapu

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202 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

And to like detach from that also has been a big thing.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

Okay, as a company, we are going to make mistakes.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

And stepping back, that was also one of the toughest thing that personally I had to do.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So that was pretty organic.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

What I have seen basically is I always assumed and imagined that you have to plan on how you are supposed to grow.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

And OK, this is my five year milestone, 20 year milestone and stuff like that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So vision, that part is right.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

But when it comes to scaling, right, what I've realized is it is mostly adjusting to the demand.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So for us, scale has always been around like adjusting to the demand and not really planning for it per se.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So one of the things is like deliberately, like we are not really heavily marketed kind of company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

Whatever we have grown, we are 80 plus developers right now.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

And we have grown completely organically.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

We do not have a market.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

Like recently we have started doing some activities which our CMO thinks we should be doing.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

And CMO is also pretty new to the company, by the way.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So whatever we have scaled organically in the sense like through referrals, clients referring somebody else and they referring somebody else.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

That's how we have grown.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

So I've had a lot of losing horses, probably the ones that pulled our carriage back also, to be honest.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

In the beginning, I did not know.