Sometimes you have to be deep into a specialized industry to truly understand the areas needing solutions. As a teenager, Arjun Patel was racing forklifts at his dad’s factory. In college, he was a plant manager focusing on quality, safety, and production optimization. After college, he became a manufacturing consultant. 

Growing up on a factory floor and learning its myriad intricacies gave Arjun the realization that there were no software solutions to track production lines. “Everything was manual,” Arjun says. “There’s huge binders tracking logs of what was being done.” 

This eventually led him to co-found WorkClout, a tech startup that offers a software solution for automotive engineering teams to improve quality.