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Rao Adavikolanu Still Markets Like an Engineer
Before he ran marketing teams, Rao Adavikolanu wrote software. Twenty-seven years later, his playbook still begins with the same question: can the system prove it works?
Vignesh Girishankar
Vignesh Girishankar is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Rocketlane, a San Francisco-based professional services automation platform that has raised $105M in total funding. Before Rocketlane, he co-founded Konotor (acquired by Freshworks in 2015), where he transformed an in-app messaging tool into FreshChat, scaling it to $13M ARR. Based in Chennai, India, Vignesh is known for his rigorous customer discovery approach - conducting 80+ interviews spanning 200+ hours before writing a line of code - and for building category-defining enterprise software from India without relocating to Silicon Valley.