Resilience And Taking Risks | Mettl

“You can’t change what the market wants, you can only serve what the market wants”

 Tonmoy Shingal is the co-founder of HF-tech SAAS platform, Mettl- a tech solution that changed the way organizations hire talent. 

Tonmoy spoke about the genesis of Mettl from its stupendous growth to finally being acquired by Mercer & everything else in between.

This has been one of the most exciting entrepreneurial journeys I’ve heard so far - and how could it not be? Mettl’s stakeholders got a 7x on their investments as they exited!

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Some of the things he shared:-

• An 80/20 approach towards enriched learning. 

• How to find your life’s calling. 

• Raising funds for the startup & the two types of VC investors. 

• Adapting your product as you grow to achieve the right product-market fit. 

• Scaling by being frugal on marketing spends.

Additional readings:-

1. More institutes opting for hybrid test format, shows Mercer | Mettl’s report

2. Online proctoring platform Mettl sets a heavy target to expand beyond 450 institutes

You may be interested in these other stories in the B2B SaaS Space:

1. Rohit Chennamaneni shares his journey of building Darwinbox, the startup serving more than a million employees across 500 global enterprises in more than 60 countries.

2. Ambarish Gupta shares his journey of building Knowlarity, the largest Cloud Telephony company in Asia.

3. Ankit Prasad shares his journey of building Bobble AI that disrupted the well-established keyboard apps by Google and Microsoft.

4. Sumit Agarwal shares his journey of building Vyapar, an easy-to-use software for business owners that provides billing, inventory, and accounting services.

5. Neel Kothari shares his journey of building iZooto, a push notification platform that touches the lives of billions consuming news on the Internet!

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