Abhinav Asthana

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 28, 2025 by Abhinav Asthana · across every show →

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Aug 28, 2025
Insight
Asthana: Never skimp on lawyers or accountants; cut office costs instead
“Always never spare money for the lawyer or the accountant. Don't skimp on that. Skimp on the office if you need to.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 1:01:14 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025
Assertion Supported
Asthana: Postman rolled a $1M seed into a $7M Series A
“We had a million dollar inbound, like, kind of seed round or so, which we rolled into a seven million dollar total round in a series A.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 38:40 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025
Disclosure
Asthana: Postman adopted recurring SaaS model in late 2016 or 2017
“We went to collaboration in a recurring SaaS model when we monetized eventually in 2000, late 2016, 17. So monetization happened for Postman way later.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 36:31 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Asthana: Postman used progressive disclosure to stay accessible to non-developers
“A product decision that we took was that the product has to be useful for non-developers as well. So complexity is Revealed through progressive disclosure versus something you have to read a manual or learn over the next five years on how to be good at Postman…”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 44:41 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Asthana: Best pricing test combines highest price with minimal features
“I tested for that by putting the highest price point I could think of with the lowest possible amount of features. And I would say, how many will still sign up for this thing? And actually that was the best pricing test we kind of ever did.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 37:30 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Asthana: Non-developers formed a significant fraction of Postman's early user base
“We saw that a lot of the early users of Postman, not a majority, but a significant fraction were non-developers. These are product managers, technical writers, developer relations, solution engineers customer facing folks and go to market teams.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 43:33 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
Aug 28, 2025
Assertion Supported
Asthana: Teleport Me reached six to seven million users
“We had, I think, about six, seven million users.”
Abhinav Asthana Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 19:22 From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
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