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The Neon ShowHow Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur Rawal & Vishwa KrishnakumarThis is a special episode from the Neon Fund.In 2025, the US saw $1.8 trillion worth of M&A deals, around 25× more than India. But India’s startup ecosystem is much younger, which makes every acquisition a playbook for founders on process, pricing leverage, and stakeholder management.Neon backed Zenduty in 2020, when the founders had been bootstrapping profitably for two years and were already growing at a pace many VC-backed startups aspire to.Today, founders Ankur Rawal and Vishwa Krishnakumar join Siddhartha, Partner at Neon, to discuss one of the most untalked acquisitions of 2025.
2026-01-301h 03
Incidentally Reliable PodcastOnce an SRE, always an SRE | Incidentally Reliable with Sudarshan BalakrishnaIn this episode, Sudarshan shares his experience leading high-performing SRE and infrastructure teams at Rippling, Twilio, Walmart, and Epsilon. He talks about reducing CI/CD costs by 60 percent, cutting on-call alerts by 65 percent, and the mindset required to build resilient systems.
2025-08-0156 minIncidentally Reliable PodcastCTRL + ALT + Scale: Building More Than Just Code | Incidentally Reliable with Sakshi JainIn this episode, Madhu Rawat (CTO, Xurrent) sits down with Sakshi — Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Kapstan, with leadership experience at Sumo Logic and UpGrad. They discuss the evolution of observability, building for scale, the role of AI in incident management, and what it means to lead engineering teams through change.
2025-06-1854 minIncidentally Reliable PodcastRedefining ITxM with Zenduty × Xurrent | Incidentally ReliableIn this episode, Phil (CPO) and Madhu (CTO) from Xurrent sit down with Vishwa and Ankur from Zenduty to talk about ITxM, building for reliability across teams, and how product and platform thinking come together in real-world incident workflows.
2025-05-2145 min
Sudarshan's PodcastEP076 - Idea to Acquisition : Zenduty's Startup Story | Sudarshan's PodcastFollow me on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudarshanbaskar/Follow Ankur on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurrawal/In this podcast, we spoke about,00:00 - Ankur's Journey: From Childhood to Zen Duty09:10 - IBM to Starting up11:00 - Consultancy Phase15:08 - Birth of Zen Duty and Initial Challenges21:55 - Navigating Pandemic and Growth24:13 - Hiring and Engineering Talent Post-COVID30:29 - Evolution of Talent Acquisition & Jobs41:11 - Xurrent Acquisition and future plans44:53 - Celebrating SREs via PodcastsStay tuned, will meet you soon !!
2025-05-1254 min
The Neon Show3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”In this episode of The Neon Show, Vishwa (Co-founder of ZenDuty) is joined by Rahul Sasi (Co-founder of CloudSEK) and Ananda Krishna (Co-founder of Astra Security). They share how AI feels magical now. And how as founders they are trying to sprinkle this magic everywhere from how building products to building teams and everything that matters.This episode is packed with valuable insights for anyone interested in startup culture, productivity, and AI magic. Tune in!Due to some technical issues, there are disturbances in th...
2025-05-1138 min
Incidentally Reliable PodcastS2 | #1 - Deepak Rajanna - From Cart Failures to Satellite FootprintsIn this episode, we speak with Deepak Rajanna, CPTO at SatSure and ex-Amazon, Flipkart, xto10x, about pricing failures at scale, war room lessons from Big Billion Days, and building satellite-powered systems with SRE principles at their core.
2025-04-2542 minIncidentally Reliable Podcast#14 - Amit Rindhe - GoDaddy's Journey to Hosting ReliabilityIn this episode of Incidentally Reliable, we sit down with Amit Rhinde, Head of Engineering at GoDaddy, to uncover the secrets behind building resilient systems, scaling global operations, and ensuring uptime for millions of users.Amit takes us through his incredible journey, from pioneering SRE practices at Adobe and AWS to leading one of the world's most trusted hosting platforms.
2024-12-2039 minIncidentally Reliable Podcast#13 - Denys Pashutynski - Press Start to Scale: SRE in GamingIn this episode of Incidentally Reliable, we chat with Denys Pashutynski, Senior Engineering Manager of Site Reliability at Roblox, about the challenges of maintaining gaming reliability for millions. Denys, with experience at companies like Twitter, AWS, and eBay, dives into how Roblox handles latency, traffic spikes, and customer expectations.
2024-09-2729 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#12 - Abhishek Ghosh - Battle-Tested Reliability StrategiesWe dive into the trenches with Abhishek Ghosh, a veteran who has led SRE teams at Pinterest, and now at Cribl. He shares gripping war room stories from Pinterest, strategies for maintaining uptime, insights into the role of AI in observability, and more! Discover the future of SRE and learn how to navigate the challenges of digital reliability. Tune in to gain valuable lessons from one of the industry's leading experts.
2024-08-1656 min
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryMastering Stress and Automation in DevOps with Vishwa Krishnakumar (Zenduty)In this episode of the Ship Talk podcast, host Dewan Ahmed welcomes Vishwa Krishnakumar, co-founder of ZenDuty, to delve into the complexities of software delivery, from managing stress as a startup founder to the nuances of DevOps and SRE practices. Vishwa shares his journey from a young coder to a successful entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of physical and mental well-being in high-pressure environments.They discuss how ZenDuty emerged from a need to address incident management and the evolution of DevOps practices, highlighting the significance of timing and cultural shifts in successful implementations. The conversation also explores the...
2024-07-0327 minIncidentally Reliable Podcast#11 - Ramiro Berrelleza - The Science of Building Cloud Native DevToolsCatch Ramiro Berrelleza — Founder and CEO at Okteto talk about how impactful DevTool startups are built, the importance of investing in Developer Experience, and the emerging issues in the Cloud Native ecosystem.
2024-06-2134 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#10 - Krishnendu Majumdar - Credit-Worthy ReliabilityCatch Krishnendu Majumdar (CPTO at Yubi) talk about his journey in the dynamic Indian startup ecosystem, strategies to build for scale from Day 1 and insights into building sustained user trust via exceptional product performance in high governance industries like credit and finance.
2024-05-3044 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#9 - Niall Murphy - Reliability for the BooksCatch Niall Murphy (Co-Founder of Stanza Systems) talk about graceful degradation, what startups are getting wrong about reliability and how well-thought user-experiences can communicate credibility to current and potential customers.
2024-05-1050 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#8 - Solomon Hykes - Reinventing Deployments: From Docker to DaggerVery few people in the last 50 years have changed the way software is built. Solomon continues to contribute to this very mission — building products that makes the lives of software developers, operators and maintainers easier everywhere.Tune in as Solomon shares stories from the early days of Docker, the rollercoaster journey leading to 20 million active developers worldwide, the heavy crown of a tech leader and his vision to revolutionize CI/CD with Dagger today.
2024-04-3033 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#7 - Ashutosh Sharma - Behind The Seams of Myntra's ReliabilityCatch Ashutosh Sharma (Director of Engineering at Myntra) talk to Vishwa Krishnakumar as we explore his journey so far, and learn about the culture, the people and the processes that make our favourite fashion destination reliable.Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.
2024-03-3145 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#6 - Piyush Verma - The Show Must Go OnCatch Piyush Verma, Co-Founder and CTO at Last9 in conversation with Ankur Rawal, Co-Founder and CTO at Zenduty — discussing what reliability means to the modern consumer, why SREs make excellent decision-makers, and the current state of observability.Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.
2024-02-091h 02
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#5 - Suresh Kumar Khemka - Tech is Easy, People are HardSettle in and listen to Suresh Kumar Khemka(Head of Platform & Infra at apna) talk about platform engineering, balancing bureaucracy and velocity at Startups and Tech Giants, and the rippling impact of an e-commerce's downtime.Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.
2024-01-1547 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#4 - Viraj Patel - BookMyShow's Cinematic Product JourneyCatch Viraj Patel(prev. VP Engg. at BookMyShow, Flipkart) deliver a masterclass in category creation, product innovation, and engineering culture — straight from the front seat of one of the world's biggest entertainment and ticketing companies.
2023-12-141h 28
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#3 - Manoj Sebastian - The Evolution of SRE, Industry Leading Incident Management Culture and the Future of AI Assisted ReliabilityCatch Manoj Sebastian(ex-Flipkart, Amazon, Atlassian, Intuit, Yahoo) talk about The Evolution of SRE through 20 years, Unique Outages and Post Incident Culture at Big Tech and the Future of Reliability with AI ramping up at full speed.
2023-08-041h 03
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#2 - Manan Verma - Reliability at Unicorns, the future of Observability and Cost of IncidentsReliability and DevOps at growing stages, tiffs between Platform Engineering and DevOps, metrics to watch and a lot more, with Manan Verma - Associate Director of Engineering at PhysicsWallah.
2023-05-2629 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#1 - Rajesh Tilwani - DevOps Startups, Day 1 Reliability and SRE Culture at ScaleThe line between DevOps and SRE, building a DevOps Startup, war-room atmosphere at different scales, how to inculcate a culture of reliability into your teams and more.
Sit back, grab some coffee, and get ready for some jaw-dropping and spirited conversations with Rajesh Tilwani, Co-Founder of Humalect.
2023-03-3048 min