
Before he co-founded Luminai, Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran solved 290 cubes in an hour, cycled the Silk Road and paid his bills with hackathon winnings. His route into business began with a much smaller discovery: a puzzle could introduce him to people he had never imagined meeting.

A cube record, 4,000 kilometers by bicycle and more than 100 unanswered investor emails taught Luminai's founder the same lesson: complicated systems yield to patient, repeatable moves.