Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services from Pune, India

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Services companies are easy to bootstrap, but often, they grow slowly in the beginning. How do you accelerate? This discussion with Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain is about the levers of acceleration.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Aayush, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, what kind of background?

Ayush Jain: I was born and raised in a city in India called Agra, which is famous for the Taj Mahal. I was born into a middle-class family; education was the focus of the choices that our parents made. They always made sure that we were in the best of the schools possible. I did an integrated post-graduation course in computer science and management from Gwalior. It was a unique program, where you learn both tech as well as management. In introspection, it was a great program and it was a good experience.

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Take me to the inflection point where you hit upon the healthcare focus. What was the impetus for that?

Ayush Jain: So that was actually around the time of COVID. Moving forward, we focused on making internal changes—hiring our own sales team, setting up foundations, and so on—because we were always striving for growth. As founders, we were constantly pushing to become a 10x version of ourselves.