If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Some of us have worked relentlessly for decades to bring about the change in India from a largely services-driven technology industry to one that today produces credible products sold all over the world. Ameyo is one of the early examples of this shift, and Co-founder CEO Sachin Bhatia is an early visionary in this journey. Ameyo was acquired by Exotel in 2021. Sachin is also a long-term reader of this blog. It is always a great pleasure for me to do the Entrepreneur Journeys of my long time readers who have benefited from these stories and the invaluable lessons shared by so many entrepreneurs since 2006. This is our conversation from December 2020. Sramana Mitra: Let's go to the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Sachin Bhatia: I was born in New Delhi,
Sramana Mitra: This is very interesting. The way you've stepped through the line of thinking of why you've arrived at these decisions is very instructive. Where
Sramana Mitra: Education is the only passport to get to the next level. Pallav Pandey: Absolutely. Everybody in India is very clear that if I have to go to the
Pallav Pandey: Then we had another divine intervention, I would say. He started collecting whatever money was due from schools so that he can pool up whatever
Sramana Mitra: I have coached and mentored hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. As a rule, I advise people not to follow this principle of releasing a free