ProductNation/iSPIRT
Sanjay Shah serves as the Chief Operating Officer at the Wadhwani Foundation since September 2021, focusing on empowering small business entrepreneurs through initiatives like Wadhwani Advantage and Wadhwani Entrepreneur. As a founder and Chief Technology Officer at Instavans, Shah revolutionizes the local trucking market with an on-demand platform. Additionally, Shah is an angel investor with the Indian Angel Network and actively contributes as a Fellow at iSPIRT Foundation. Previous roles include Managing Director at iManage, with a focus on transforming processes in the legal industry, and extensive leadership experience at Schneider Electric and Invensys Skelta. Shah holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, along with executive education from Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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ProductNation/iSPIRT
We are a non-profit think tank that builds public goods for Indian product startups to thrive and grow. iSPIRT aims to do for Indian startups what DARPA or Stanford did in Silicon Valley. To transform India into a hub for new generation software products, it is crucial to address government policy, create market catalysts and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs. An integrative approach is fundamental and vital. Since the stakes are high and the industry is moving very fast, a reactive ivory tower approach cannot succeed. In addition to top-down policy recommendations, the hive mind of the industry must be leveraged to support conversations for grassroots involvement and actions. David Weinberger said it most aptly: the smartest person in the room is now the room. With this context in mind, about 30 product companies and individuals have joined hands to form iSPIRT – the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable. iSPIRT builds four types of public goods – technology building blocks (aka India stack), startup-friendly policies, market access programs like M&A Connect and Playbooks that codify scarce tacit knowledge for product entrepreneurs of India. To apply for Volunteering with us, visit: volunteers.ispirt.in Please write to us at community@ispirt.in.