Revenue & Commercial Leader | AI · SaaS · CPaaS
I am a CPaaS and SaaS revenue leader with 20 years of enterprise experience across India and global markets. I have led commercial functions at scale — building distributed sales teams, designing GTM strategies, and closing enterprise deals from SMB to Fortune 500 accounts across BFSI, retail, healthcare, and government verticals.
My core domain is the intersection of communication infrastructure, AI, and enterprise software. I have operated in CPaaS (WhatsApp Business API, RCS, voice, SMS), SaaS platform sales, and channel/partner-led growth. I run a team while simultaneously building weekend products — QuickMeet (AI-powered scheduling), PrivVault (encrypted photo storage), and TuneRef (music copyright checker).
I write about the things I actually spend time thinking about: AI and the intelligence economy, SaaS business models and their structural evolution, enterprise sales craft, and the CPaaS landscape in India and globally. No theory — just what holds up under scrutiny from 20 years in the field.
2026-05-02 · 12 min read · AI & Technology
MCP grew from 1,200 to 9,400+ public servers in 14 months. 78% of enterprise AI teams have at least one MCP-backed agent in production. If an AI agent cannot call your product, you do not exist in the agentic economy. The context window is the new search index — and most Indian SaaS companies are not in it.
2026-04-24 · 13 min read · AI & Technology
$285 billion in SaaS market cap erased in 48 hours. $2 trillion by end of Q1 2026. AI is not killing SaaS products — it is eliminating the humans who use them. The seat-based model is structurally compromised. And the split between deterministic and probabilistic software determines who survives.
2026-04-10 · 10 min read · AI & Technology
TSMC makes 90%+ of the world's advanced AI chips — all in Taiwan, 110 miles from China. NVIDIA's real moat is CUDA, not the hardware. India has 36 months. And the democratisation curve always wins.
2026-03-26 · 13 min read · AI & Technology
Maor Shlomo built Base44 alone, during a war, with ADHD — $0 raised, sold to Wix for $80M in 6 months. The cost of training a domain AI collapsed 30,000×. Every domain expert is now a software business.
2026-03-18 · 12 min read · Business
The IPL is valued at $18.5B — up 1,750% since its 2008 launch. BCCI paid ₹0 tax on ₹11,769 crore in IPL revenue. CVC made 350%+ returns in 4 years. The Glazers bid $1.8B for one franchise. A deep look at the world's most profitable startup.
2026-03-07 · 9 min read · Business
Shopify had its best revenue year ever in 2025. The stock is down 25%. These two facts are not contradictions — they are the whole story. A balanced look at the bear case, the bull case, and the real threat.
2026-02-28 · 10 min read · AI & Technology
Over 500,000 white-collar jobs cut since 2022 — by companies posting record revenues. A function-by-function breakdown for the Sales, HR, Finance, and Marketing professional nobody is having an honest conversation with.
2026-02-18 · 13 min read · AI & Technology
Global cloud spending crossed $400B in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud hold 63% — but neoclouds, developer platforms like Vercel, and APAC's data center boom are reshaping the landscape.
2026-01-20 · 11 min read · CPaaS
WhatsApp dominates with 3B users globally, but WeChat rules China and LINE owns Japan. A deep dive into the $70B messaging market and what's driving regional champions.
2025-11-01 · 10 min read · AI & Technology
AI coding tools market exploding from $12B to $27B by 2032. How platforms like Replit, Lovable, and Cursor are enabling anyone to build software—no coding experience required.
AI-powered booking tool with voice notes and smart scheduling. Lightweight alternative to Calendly built for professionals who want a scheduling page without the overhead. Features one-click booking, voice note recording, AI-generated meeting summaries, and magic link authentication.
End-to-end encrypted photo storage with AI-powered smart search. Zero-knowledge design with client-side AES-GCM encryption. Built for professionals who need secure photo sharing without trusting a cloud provider with their keys.
AI music copyright checker. Upload or search a track to check copyright status, licensing requirements, and commercial use rights before publishing content.
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