Suresh Sambandam

Kissflow · Chennai

Founder and CEO of Kissflow and one of the loudest public advocates for capital efficient SaaS built in India

Why they're worth your time

He argues the case for the low touch, self serve, globally priced Indian SaaS company, and he is specific about how it works: pricing pages that do the qualifying, content as the top of funnel, and keeping sales headcount low on purpose. Useful counterweight if everything else you read assumes a big sales team.

Background

Suresh Sambandam founded Kissflow in Chennai, a work management and process automation platform that sells to customers worldwide. He is a co-founder of SaaSBoomi and convenor of DreamTamilNadu, and posts and speaks frequently about building and selling software from India. Kissflow grew for years without large outside funding, which shapes most of what he publishes.

Known for

Positioning Pricing Inbound & content Category design

Where they're public

Their own channels. Read the work first.

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