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Sandeep Deshmukh and the value of an empty truck
A software engineer learned to see unused capacity as a route into overlooked markets. With ElasticRun, Sandeep Deshmukh has spent a decade testing that idea, from rural shop shelves to the race for faster delivery.
Amit Agarwal and the price of an introduction
A month’s rent to meet a landlord struck Amit Agarwal as a peculiar bargain. With two friends, the former banker built NoBroker around a question that India’s property market had learned to live with.
Mayank Kukreja Took the Expense Report Personally
After nearly 200 days a year on the road, the former engineer, consultant and Myntra operator turned a familiar office annoyance into ITILITE - then learned to rebuild a travel company while nobody was traveling.
Rukesh Reddy
Rukesh Reddy is the Founder and CEO of Deccan AI, a Mountain View-based AI data and post-training company that raised a $25M Series A in March 2026 led by A91 Partners with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. Built as a 'born GenAI' company in October 2024, Deccan AI serves frontier AI labs and major tech companies - including Google DeepMind and Snowflake - with high-precision training datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and enterprise evaluation suites. Reddy brings over 15 years of experience spanning finance, strategy consulting, and digital transformation at firms including J.P. Morgan, Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), and Citi, where he led CX and digital transformation for the global retail bank.