SM: I understand there were three cofounders. Did any of you take a salary role in the beginning of the company? RK: The other guys were still consulting at their previous jobs. I was out raising seed capital to keep the company going because my former company had just been purchased. I was able to
SM: What was the competitive landscape like at that point? RK: Right around the time we launched another small company out of Los Angeles called Dropload. It did not take off as quickly as hoped.
Ranjith Kumaran is the founder and chief technology officer for YouSendIt. Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, and he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica. He has also worked as a software systems engineer at Red Hat. Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill