Vishal Agarwal was born in India, and did his schooling in Darjeeling. He noted that this city exports some of the best tea in the world! Prior to his current venture, he was the chief marketing officer for Choxi. Outside of tech, he is an avid tennis lover and follows cricket and basketball closely. Though, he admits, now that he has a 2.5 year old child, his time is mostly dedicated to him.In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution.This is the creation story of Checkmate.SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www.itsacheckmate.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalagarwal82/ Our Sponsors:* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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So we had always focused on POS integrations, but when we came upon this problem of third-party delivery platforms, we said, we have an API integration with a couple of POS systems. Why don't we use the same pipeline to now funnel some other kind of data into them?
That other kind of data was basically information from order confirmation emails that the third-party platforms would send out to the restaurant operators. What we did was developed an email parser to scrape the information out of that email and send it to the POS systems via an API. Again, very startup-y. My name is Vishal Agarwal.
I'm the founder and CEO of Checkmate, and our website is itscheckmate.com.
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He noted that this city exports some of the best tea in the world. Prior to his current venture, he was the chief marketing officer for Choi. Outside of tech, he's an avid tennis lover and follows cricket and basketball closely, though he admits now that he has a two and a half year old child, his time is mostly dedicated to him.
In attempting to solve the problem of splitting the check, Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services, like Grubhub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution. This is the creation story of Checkmate.
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