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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.
The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- The richest India origin account of moving from founder led selling to a sales organisation, with the actual price ladder, the... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 54 min · GTM 7 Steps to SaaS Go-to-Market Fit After Product-Market Fit Khadim Batti
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Video · About 1 hr 9 min · GTM
How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
Khadim Batti
- Batti on category creation and building a global go to market flywheel from Bengaluru while targeting US buyers from the very... Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar Podcast · 49 min · GTM E115 - Mastering Global GTM w/Whatfix's Khadim Batti Khadim Batti
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Video · 47 min · GTM
Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The research that came before the product is quantified here: 80 plus customer interviews, more than 200 hours of recorded... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview · GTM The Architect of Onboarding: Srikrishnan Ganesan and the Rise of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The honest sequel: why the inbound playbook that worked at launch had to be abandoned for outbound and in person selling once... SaaS Scaling Secrets Podcast · About 42 min · GTM Ditching Traditional SaaS Playbooks with Sri Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
- The founder's own dated timeline, useful for checking how long the community actually ran before the first line of product code... Rocketlane Blog Article · About 8 min read · GTM Rocketlane: How it began, and where we are headed Srikrishnan Ganesan
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Video · About 1 hr · GTM
8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan,Exotel
Shivakumar Ganesan
- Where the motion came from: the Ola number masking call, 350 inbound SMBs at 10 to 15 a month, the rupee pricing experiments,... The Neon Show Podcast · 59 min · GTM Exotel, SaaS startup serving clients like Ola, Swiggy, Zerodha Shivakumar Ganesan
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Video · Interview · GTM
From Bootstrap to $100M Raise | Shivakumar (Shivku) Ganesan on Building Exotel & The Future of CX
Shivakumar Ganesan
- The contemporaneous record, written while the claim was still true, with Scott Farquhar saying it in his own words rather than... TechCrunch Article · About 3 min read · GTM Atlassian's 2011 Revenues Were $102 Million With No Sales People Erick Schonfeld
- Jay Simons on the five decisions that made the model work, including product advocates instead of reps and refusing to... First Round Review Article · About 15 min read · GTM Unpacking 5 of Atlassian's Most Unconventional Company-Building Moves First Round Review
- The useful half is where Simons says the model breaks and enterprise advocates became necessary, which stops this being read as... Inside Intercom Podcast · About 30 min · GTM How Atlassian built a $20 billion company with a unique sales model Jay Simons
- This is the segment selection episode: the rabbits and elephants analogy, fewer than 1,000 merchants at Series A, and why 20... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode with full transcript · GTM Razorpay's Journey From a Small Startup to a Big Brand with Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
- A slide by slide walk through the actual 2014 deck, which had no founder slide and won on problem clarity, useful if you are... SeedToScale by Accel Podcast · Podcast episode · GTM Breaking Down Razorpay's Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
- Where the counterintuitive north star is explained: payment success rate rather than merchant count, plus 30 to 40 minute... Inc42 Article · About 12 min read · GTM The Product Practices That Turned Razorpay Into A Payments Juggernaut Deepsekhar Choudhury
- The numbers spine behind the story, including exact take rates, multi product attach at 65 percent of customers, and the risk... Contrary Research Report · Long report · GTM Razorpay Business Breakdown & Founding Story Contrary Research
- The rupee denominated revenue ladder plus the saying no story: refusing to enter buy now pay later against investor pressure... Forbes India Article · About 8 min read · GTM Razor-sharp checkout: How Razorpay grew close to eight times in four years Rajiv Singh
- Figma's first go to market hire walks the whole arc from stealth to monetisation, including how the bottom up motion eventually... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr · GTM An inside look at Figma's unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire) Claire Butler
- The clearest stage by stage map, especially the pricing decision to gate file limits so the free tier kept the multiplayer... First Round Review Article · About 15 min read · GTM The 5 Phases of Figma's Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise First Round Review
- A first person account of why standard B2B demand generation failed at Figma and what community led growth actually cost to... Claire's Notebook Article · About 12 min read · GTM 10 things I learned from 10 years at Figma Claire Butler
- The six evaluation dimensions and the too many firsts rule, which turns a vague hiring instinct into something you can actually... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · About 15 min read · GTM How to hire your first marketer Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich
- The diagnostic that stops you misreading a growth problem: decide whether you are short on fuel or short on engine before you... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · About 12 min read · GTM Building an efficient marketing machine: the fuel & the engine Emily Kramer
- A one page brief covering goals, audience, creative angle and channels, written before anything longer than a tweet. It is the... MKT1 Newsletter Newsletter · About 10 min read · GTM The GACC Marketing Brief: The best framework we've created Emily Kramer
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
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