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Kashish Gupta Kept Killing Good Ideas Until Hightouch Found Its Job
A travel bot died, four ideas vanished in three months, and a warehouse plumbing problem became a marketing company. Kashish Gupta’s useful obsession is not being right first - it is learning fast enough to earn the next move.
Tejas Manohar
Tejas Manohar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the San Francisco company that helped create the Composable CDP category by bringing customer data platform capabilities directly onto the data warehouse. He moved to San Francisco at 16 to become one of Segment's first ten engineers, then left in 2018 to start Hightouch with Kashish Gupta and Josh Curl. Under his leadership Hightouch has crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue and raised a $150M Series D in April 2026 at a $2.75B valuation, pivoting the company toward AI Decisioning and agentic marketing.