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The Phone Bill Is the Product: Inside MDS Global's Quiet Telecom Engine
MDS Global began by solving its own billing headache. Nearly four decades later, that operator-built logic sits behind MVNOs, wholesale providers and major carriers trying to launch faster without losing track of who owes what.
The Billing Engine Behind Your Netflix Habit Just Taught Itself to Think
For 24 years Aria Systems has quietly answered one boring, load-bearing question for the world's biggest companies: how do you charge millions of customers correctly, every month, without the whole thing falling over?
Pump.co
Pump.co is a San Francisco-based AI cloud platform that pools AWS commitments across hundreds of startups to deliver enterprise-grade discounts - up to 60% off - with no engineering work or long contracts. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, it has grown into a multi-product 'intelligent cloud' covering cost optimization, visibility, and security.
Spandana Nakka
Spandana Nakka is the Founder & CEO of Pump.co, a Y Combinator-backed startup that cuts AWS cloud bills by up to 60% for free using group buying and AI. Indian-origin, UAE-raised, and Stanford-educated, Nakka spent four years as one of Google's early female PMs on Google Fiber and Google Play before co-founding Sleek (acquired by Snackpass in 2021) and then building Pump in 2022. Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology, she leads an 88-person team making enterprise-level cloud discounts accessible to startups that can't negotiate alone.