Varsha Venugopal

Yeah, I think for me, given where I was with my life trajectory and knowing I couldn't possibly move to India, it made so much sense to have a co-founder who could actually be based in India.

But even beyond that, the advice we got from CE and others is that having a co-founder is immensely useful in complementing some of the strengths and weaknesses and limitations you may have.

And from that perspective,

it's definitely been hugely useful to have someone who is just as stressed about carrying through with their day's work.

And yeah, just in terms of entrepreneurship being a lonely journey, having somebody whom you can constantly throw ideas back and forth and debate on how to take some of our decisions forward is immensely useful.

Yeah, it was broadly from this idea that she would be based in India and most of our team would be based there.

So it would be easier for her to take on that role.

And it's worked out mostly fine.

So I think we would be continuing with that model.

It would be much harder for me sitting here to be managing a team on the ground.

There is also this element of people being mostly in charge of their own selves.

So the management is fairly light touch and more in terms of

how can we support you to do your work better?

Yes, before our first trip to India, we spent quite a lot of time together.

But even otherwise, we are on call and chat pretty much all the time, which is, again, I think just the nature of startup and early stage and lots of moving pits and pieces.

I think we pretty much clicked fairly early and continue to be clicked now.

Yeah, I think we bring very different perspectives and skills and somehow are complementary and seem to agree on most things.

And where we disagree, we manage to work through in a fairly nonviolent way.

I think CE has gotten pretty good at this.

So they did some kind of... I think they even put us in some cat and dog category.