Rish Gupta

Co-Founder & VP, Product at Spot AI

Rish Gupta is the Co-Founder & VP of Product at Spot AI. Prior to this, they were the Senior Product Manager at Samsara, Inc., where they led the assets product line from early stages to a double digit million$ ARR business. Rish also designed and launched a new asset tracker (patent awarded) in the market, and grew it to multi-million dollar business line within 2 quarters. Additionally, they built and led the European product team for 4 months as Samsara expanded to the European market.

Before their venture into the corporate world, Rish Gupta was the Founder Collective's Part-time Associate. Their curious foray into the world of venture capital led him to realize that they enjoy building companies a lot more. This realization eventually led him to Letsintern.com, India's largest platform connecting college students to companies, which they co-founded and served as CEO of from March 2010 to March 2016. Under Rish Gupta's leadership, the company scaled to 40+ employees, 20% profitability and a successful exit via acquisition in 2015. The company was built with $2000 in personal savings and a lot of hustle to reach to 4M+ users, 22,000+ corporate clients including Uber, Amazon, Adidas, Pepsi, Vogue, Philips etc.

During their time at Letsintern.com, Rish Gupta received numerous awards and recognition for their work, including being named No.1 app on Google play store for internships in India and Facebook awarding Letsintern as top 3 innovative products in student-tech. Rish was also named NASSCOM Emerge50 2011 for hottest startups in India; Awarded a grant from Dept. of Science and Technology; Winner of 2010 Economic Times Power of Ideas (from 17,000+ applications).

Rish Gupta attended Delhi University for their undergraduate degree in economics and then went on to Stanford University Graduate School of Business for their MBA.

Rish Gupta reports to Tanuj Thapliyal, CEO. A direct report to Rish Gupta is and Tom Wojcik - Head of Product & Engineering, AI. Rish Gupta works with John Metzger - Head of Platform Reliability, Sud Bhatija - Co-Founder & VP, Growth, and Jordan Staples - Head of Sales.

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  • Co-Founder & VP, Product

    Current role

  • Head of Product & CX

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