Ashish Tandon
Founder & CEO, Indusface. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ashish Tandon is the Founder and CEO of Indusface, an application security SaaS company providing AI-powered web, mobile, and API protection. Prior to scaling Indusface, he played Ranji Trophy cricket for Baroda and built two tech ventures that achieved exits to Sify and Trend Micro.
1shows
1appearances
11statements
3resolved
2supported
1contradicted
67%fully supported
Everything Ashish Tandon said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Tandon: Security software cannot be scaled by marketing substandard products early
“When you're building a software security product, you know, you have to do it right because it's the trust which customers and businesses put in you. So you have to do it right. And, you know, and sometimes in the, this is not like pulling in a lot of money an…”
Tandon: Indusface took Tata investment because bootstrapping limited growth acceleration
“A couple of years or two and a half years back, we realized that being bootstrapped is not going to really help us grow. We need now to get into mold of you know, acceleration, and we need the right partner make sure we have the right partner who can guide us,…”
Tandon: Trend Micro acquired his cybersecurity venture in September 2012
“Ultimately in 2012 September we got an offer from one of the large enterprise security product software companies Trend Micro. And they showed interest in acquiring us, and that led to our second exit, and I sold it to them, and that was reasonably rewarding a…”
Tandon: Indusface Has Over 3,000 Customers Globally, 35% International
“We have 3000 plus customers in 90 plus countries now almost 35% of our customers are international customers. And last year we're just 20%.”
Tandon: Indusface signed a major backend partnership with TCS for security services
“We just signed a very large partnership with in over the world's number one IT consulting company, DCS. So now they, as part of the managed security services offering, For the protection side of application, they use our product model at the back end.”
Indusface scaled ARR from $1M to $7M, reveals Ashish Tandon
“So all, so this has all led to our growth from one to five and now seven.”
Tandon's rule for co-founding with his spouse: strict home-office boundaries
“None of us discuss business at home, especially with our kids around or whatever. It's hardly we would talk about business, and that's a rule because that can get sanity in our house. The number two rule is that I am the CEO of the company. So in office, I am …”
Tandon bowled his first Ranji Trophy ball to Sachin Tendulkar
“And then when I started playing Ranji Trophy, my first ball in my Ranji Trophy career was to the living legend Satin Dandurgarh.”
Tandon: Satyam Bought Out Baroda ISP Joint Venture Around Age 28
“Satyam decided that you know, they wanted to all the joint venture partners, they wanted to kind of own the entire asset own the entire business back. They wanted to control everything and stuff like that. And they gave us a good good option in terms of an exi…”
Tandon partnered with his acquirer to navigate a strict non-compete clause
“The non-compete was on that. We the detection piece, which was the detection piece. We could not, I could not build off my own because that's what I'd sold him. So what I did was I actually partnered with them and said, why don't I use the same detection piece…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ashish's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 NEON SHOWLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Indusface | 1 | 11 | 67% 2/3 | full record on the Neon Show → |