Episode 132 – Pritesh Vora

Introducing Pritesh Vora

Pritesh leads growth marketing and operations at BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote. Previously, he co-founded and sold Uninstall.io. He’s an entrepreneur at heart who loves challenging the status quo. Pritesh says he is a hardcore growth geek.

Show Notes

Twitter | @priteshvora

Website | WPRemote

Website | Malcare

Website | BlogVault

Preferred Pronouns | He/Him

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 132.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today we’re joined by Pritesh Vora. Pritesh leads growth marketing and operations at BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote. Previously, he co-founded and sold Uninstall.io. Here’s an entrepreneur at heart who loves challenging the status quo. Pritesh says he is a hardcore growth geek. Welcome, Pritesh. Thank you for joining us.

Pritesh: It’s my pleasure. Thank you, Liam and Tara. It’s a pleasure to be here.

Tara: Nice to have you here today. Can you tell us more about yourself, Pritesh?

Pritesh: Absolutely. Hey guys, I’m Pritesh, and we are WordPress plugin makers. I’m from the absolute other side of the world, from Bangalore, India. It’s just about past evening here. I lead growth, marketing, and operations, as Liam said, for four of successful WordPress plugins of our company.

The first one is BlogVault. It’s a cloud-based WordPress backup and staging service. The second is MalCare, which is a high-performance WordPress security solution. Third is WP Remote, which is a new Gen WordPress site manager solution for agencies. And lastly, Migrate Guru, which is a completely free migration plugin for the WordPress community. So that’s what we do.

Tara: I just learned about Migrate Guru last week. And man, it was amazing. It was great. I’ve used BlogVault with different hosts, but I hadn’t been aware of that plugin. And it was a real lifesaver for me last week. So congratulations on that. Pritesh, tell us your background. How did you get started and all this tech stuff in Bangalore?

Pritesh: That’s an interesting story. I’m an engineer by background —a software engineer. India is a decently sizable country. So, I was born in the eastern part of India, born and brought up, did my education in the eastern part of India, completed my engineering, and then got off. I was placed, through our college campus, in one of the largest software companies in India, where I had to go from east to the western part of India, in Mumbai, which is the largest city in India.

I spent a few years there with that company. I got one of the best opportunities while staying in that company, and I stayed in United States for a few years, and went through Europe and United Kingdom. After spending around five, six years, it just felt like there was something which was missing in me. And I have always wanted to do more, contribute more, find ways in which I can contribute more, and make someone’s life better. And that’s when I jumped a ship from a multinational company. I was pretty comfortable in that place, and then jumped the ship from that multinational company and joined a really, really, really small startup, which was based out of one of the most premier institutes of India in the south of India.