Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API collaboration platform used by millions of developers and thousands of companies. What began as a personal itch, a simple Chrome extension Abhinav built to make his own API work easier, became a global phenomenon within weeks.

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Timestamps:

(01:18) Why early computer access changed everything

(03:39) The first taste of the entrepreneurial bug

(09:58) Building BITS360 in college

(11:14) Curating entrepreneurial taste

(15:49) The ventures that didn’t make it

(20:53) The problems that preceded Postman

(29:56) How Postman’s team was formed

(34:01) Why clear roles prevent chaos

(34:50) Scrappy startup life in the early days

(36:26) Postman’s path to monetization

(39:59) Building a truly collaborative platform

(43:00) Navigating market and customer needs

(46:02) Cracking the go-to-market code

(49:39) Bridging the developer-enterprise divide

(54:43) The open-source dilemma