Yadhu Gopalan's guest appearances

Yadhu Gopalan

What Fuels You

The Neon Show

Built in Seattle with Adam Schoenfeld

Semil Shah

Karan Bajaj

Amit Agarwal

Joe Heitzeberg

Howard Behar

Gordon Hempton

Deepika Padukone

Michel Feaster

Glenn Kelman

Manny Medina

Daljit Singh

Dan Shapiro

Elissa Fink

Aaron Bird

Nick Martin

OwlTail

The Internet of Things category is not slowing down for anyone to catch up. It is projected to be a $1.1 trillion category by 2027, with the number of active IoT-connected devices ​​expected to reach 30.9 billion units by 2025.Targeting this, we have our guest Yadhu Gopalan, CEO &amp; Founder at Esper, with a vision to power the next billion smart devices. Currently, Seattle-based Esper has more than 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development.During the episode, Yadhu talks about his journey building Esper, how he met his cofounder, what learnings he has brought from his stint at Amazon and Microsoft, and much more.Notes - 01:12 - Journey before starting Esper02:20 - Early Childhood and moving to the US03:48 - Problem statement behind starting Esper05:25 - Product offering and clients10:25 - The founding team at Esper15:43 - Attracting the best talent16:50 - Building a team across geographies19:07 - Execute distribution and partnerships at scale20:39 - Work Culture &amp; learnings from Microsoft &amp; Amazon27:51 - Key learnings from his startup journey

The Internet of Things category is not slowing down for anyone to catch up. It is projected to be a $1.1 trillion category by 2027, with the number of active IoT-connected devices ​​expected to reach 30.9 billion units by 2025.Targeting this, we have our guest Yadhu Gopalan, CEO &amp; Founder at Esper, with a vision to power the next billion smart devices. Currently, Seattle-based Esper has more than 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development.During the episode, Yadhu talks about his journey building Esper, how he met his cofounder, what learnings he has brought from his stint at Amazon and Microsoft, and much more.Notes - 01:12 - Journey before starting Esper02:20 - Early Childhood and moving to the US03:48 - Problem statement behind starting Esper05:25 - Product offering and clients10:25 - The founding team at Esper15:43 - Attracting the best talent16:50 - Building a team across geographies19:07 - Execute distribution and partnerships at scale20:39 - Work Culture &amp; learnings from Microsoft &amp; Amazon27:51 - Key learnings from his startup journey

Microsoft & Amazon veteran, Yadhu Gopalan on building Esper, a leader in DevOps for IoT devices

Esper 2x'd revenue during the pandemic, grew from 38 to 60 employees this year, and raised a $7.6M Series A. Yadhu Gopalan, CEO &amp; co-founder, goes behind the scenes on Esper's pandemic shift, following his passion, and the builder's mindset.

Yadhu Gopalan (Esper CEO) on changing strategy, following passion, and the builder's mindset