Ajeet Singh on startup risk
From Episode 5: Lessons from Building Thoughtspot and Nutanix with Ajeet Singh · · Vidya Raman
“I look at risk in a startup in two buckets. Market risk is is there a market for what I'm trying to build? And execution is this is simply can I build it and sell and scale the business. Personally for me, I have always found that if I can establish that there's a large existing market where technology has become old and it has produced multiple winners in the past, it tells me that there is a time for a big change and it tells me that the market risk is going to be low. So I like to have personally just low market risk and high execution risk.”
On , Ajeet Singh, Cofounder at ThoughtSpot, spoke about startup risk during Episode 5: Lessons from Building Thoughtspot and Nutanix with Ajeet Singh on Vidya Raman.
About Ajeet Singh
Ajeet Singh, cofounder of ThoughtSpot, spoke at the NextGen SCM event in Delhi on May 19, 2026, about modern supply chain challenges. He described supply chain as "meeting customer expectations with probably minimum cost and in a lean and mean manner." Singh stated that changing customer expectations, including demands for speed, agility, lower cost, and variety, are driving organizations to build more resilient and responsive networks. He noted that "technology and knowledge barriers are coming down" and that competition is widespread, creating pressure on supply chains. Singh argued that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often "one-size-fits-all solutions that fail to account for industry nuances," leading to siloed information and a lack of responsiveness. He said different industries face unique challenges, citing examples such as the steel industry's liquid metal conversion, discrete manufacturing's assembly of millions of parts, and the fashion industry's need for season planning and markdown optimization. Singh stated that tailored solutions are required rather than generic ones, and that technology can help with demand sensing, supply chain planning, and operations execution to improve responsiveness.