Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 4)

Abhinav Asthana: Postman is a complete platform for API development. You can collaborate with hundreds of people on the Postman platform. All of that happened through this continuous learning and shipping process. Along the way, we have also looked at how to design our pricing models to be very much in line with the value

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you make any moves on the monetization of this half a million users? Abhinav Asthana: Not really. We used to have an in-app purchase. It used to be for $10 at that time. We eventually made it free. We started the company formally at the end of 2014. We were just monetizing

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a product strategy point of view, what did you start building to address that? In an open source mode, what were the pieces that you were putting out there? Abhinav Asthana: We were an open source extension, but mostly, we were seen as a free GUI product back then. Now our philosophy

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Postman has found tremendous adoption among developers through word of mouth. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?