Sramana Mitra: Ok, so you spun it out around $1 million ARR? Abhinav Girdhar: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: So now that you’re at $1M ARR, has a shakeout happened in the market? Have some of the other smaller competitors started folding or consolidating? What’s the situation?
Sramana Mitra: Out of the 10,000 registrations, how many converted into paying customers? Abhinav Girdhar: Mostly these were small customers, so people were coming in on a freemium model. I would say the conversion rate from freemium to paid was pretty low – 1 or 2 out of hundred users. Sramana Mitra: 1-2% conversion rate. That’s
Sramana Mitra: So what precisely was the gap? Is it a pricing gap, was it more expensive, or was it a support gap? What was the gap? Abhinav Girdhar: The gap was mostly on the support side of things and also servicing in terms of how do we go about serving these customers. The US
Abhinav has built a $15M+ ARR business by bootstrapping using services. Of his three products, one is a GenerativeAI design tool. Read on for more nuance. Sramana Mitra: All right, Abhinav, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, where were you born, raised, what kind of background?
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