Ajeet Singh on product development
From Episode 5: Lessons from Building Thoughtspot and Nutanix with Ajeet Singh · · Vidya Raman
“We try and apply these sort of core product principles to how we built the ThoughtSpot product and provide transparency to our customers where they needed it. So they can see I'm typing, it's we built a new kind of search engine that can crunch numbers. You type something in a search bar and we share results but we also showed them how we took that search query that they typed and under the hood how we translated into a database query so that experts can validate that our translation is accurate.”
On , Ajeet Singh, Cofounder at ThoughtSpot, spoke about product development 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.