Ashish Tandon

Founder & CEO, Indusface · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

11statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.09/5average certainty → 1.36/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 insight · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ashish argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

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…”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 12:56 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

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.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 4:39 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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none yet certainty 3

50% certainty 4

100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ashish Tandon on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Ashish Tandon said on the Neon Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

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…”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 16:38 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Disclosure

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,…”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 47:17 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Assertion Supported

Tandon: Trend Micro acquired his cybersecurity venture in September 2012

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 12:56 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Assertion Not checkable as stated

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%.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 23:55 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Assertion Supported

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.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 26:16 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Assertion Not checkable as stated

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.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 26:35 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Disclosure

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 …”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 37:16 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Assertion Contradicted

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.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 4:39 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Disclosure

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…”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 8:47 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Disclosure

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…”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 19:02 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Disclosure

Tandon: Trend Micro Acquisition Closed Without Bankers or Competing Bidders

“We actually didn't even have a second suit or we didn't even make a second. I think it was, everything worked out quite well, but we didn't have any investment banker.”

Ashish Tandon Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 34:27 Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO,	Apr 11, 2022	39m

Ashish Tandon

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