Building A $250 Million SaaS Startup: Abhishek Nayak, Appsmith - Backstage With Millionaires
In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Abhishek Nayak, founder and CEO of Appsmith, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00 - Intro
03:34 - Time at BITS Pilani
07:28 - Saying NO to a Job
09:10 - Meeting Co-Founder
11:03 - GharPay - First Startup
15:54 - Clink - Second Startup
19:00 - Wise - Third Startup
20:24 - Building Bicycle AI
24:50 - Pivot to Mobshow
28:50 - Time at Accel Launchpad
29:29 - Idea for Appsmith
34:30 - Initial Response
36:48 - Tasting Success
38:50 - Difficult Times
42:19 - Outro
Abhishek started his entrepreneurial journey in 2011, when he built 'GharPay', a platform to let e-commerce companies collect cash payments.
He then started Clinknow, a product in the transaction marketing space with the Gharpay team and investors.
After Ezetap acquired Clink, Abhishek worked as director of products at Ezetap before moving on to his next venture.
He started 'Wise' in 2015, a hardware startup, where their team built two products, but couldn't find a product-market fit, and hence pivoted to an AI started called Bicycle AI.
Bicycle AI applied deep learning and machine learning to automate customer service for companies. The team saw success there but had issues with the working on AI and hence shut it down.
Abhishek started Appsmith in 2019, an open source project that makes it easy to build and maintain custom internal business tools.
It has since raised over $51 Million, and is currently valued at over $250 Million.
Appsmith currently has a team of 140, and their clients are present in every country on the globe.
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Is appsmith better than retool
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I would say that this is one of the best podcasts I have ever listened to.
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👍
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I had first used Appsmith, back when I was working as a product management intern at a small EdTech startup named Beyondschool. I had to work on content as the marketing member who used to work on content was away for a while. Having used it before (it is super easy, doesn't require coding, I am a not tech folks) and now watching this feels incredibly amazing.
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This was awesome but one thing what made his journey easy was at the time he started things there wasnt competition in indian market , now even though we build attitude like him we have to face 100x struggles than him
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Did he just say... He said he dont wanna watch porn in pc... To his INDIAN DAD??
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Needed this, especially the ending. Thanks ❤
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Didnt know How 40 minutes passed by ! Really Engaging Story !
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thanks for bringing this caleb very insightful and inspirational
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This is was very refreshing
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Usually I don't comment, but this podcast is just commendable🎉
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At the end of the video, when he spoke about board games, I realised I have played board games with Abhishek (and his sister) back in 2015. Such a humble fellow and a great journey.
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Caleb, this has to be the best piece of content coming out of BwM. Authentic. Keep it coming! We need to hear more people like Abhishek.
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Bro was way ahead of his time😌
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Congrats buddy! It was nice to know about your startup journey to AppSmith.
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One of the best podcasts❤
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One of the few videos I care to comment , really awesome man !!
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"Games n porn" Sounds like a plan chief.
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Hey guys,
I have done the transcript of Abhishek's interview for the book "The Pilani Pioneers" by Gaurav Mandlecha and Durjoy Sethi. That transcribing experience taught me a lot about this great guy. You can find his and many other interviews in the book.
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Great interview! Need more of these!!
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So authentic Abhishek! Keep rocking!
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Make these convo 2 hours long!
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Great interview, very inspiring and real.
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Excellent interview. Really great to see an indigenous startup succeed based on giving back to the community. Such a mature and well centred individual..Thankyou
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The interviews are good but also bring back the weekly news videos.
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This felt very authentic, he's not trying to give a lot of gyaan and told about his highs and lows, I love when founders act more humanly, favorite entrepreneur so far and this episode too is now easily my favorite. All the best to him.
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Loved this episode. I had the honour of meeting Abhishek through my brother who works with him. Great product and company.
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Great interview. Abhishek seems like an intelligent, cool-headed and very articulate entrepreneur. It is always great to hear from the present breed of successful Indian entrepreneurs. Thank you, Caleb, for the interview.
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