Marathon Series: The Singapore telco company with the heart of a SaaS startup

Abhishek Gupta, Circles Life, International Founders, Mobile Apps, SaaS (software as a service)

Today for my marathon series has brought me to Singapore.

Abhishek Gupta is the co-founder of Circles Life, which provides a modern mobile experience.

The reason I’m excited about this interview is that it isn’t just a SaaS that could be created by one person on a computer. Abhishek had to come up with the idea, find partnerships with established companies and convince customers to switch carriers.

None of those things are easy. I want to find out how he did it.

Abhishek Gupta

Circles Life

Abhishek Gupta is the co-founder of Circles Life, which provides a modern mobile experience.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I’m here in Singapore because I wanted to travel the world and understand how entrepreneurship is done outside the U.S. and bring that back to my audience of entrepreneurs. Hopefully, we can pick up some ideas. Is it okay to say maybe steal some ideas outside the U.S.?

Abhishek: Well, I hope so. I hope you’re innovating enough.

Andrew: I think so. Because the thing is that we have in the U.S. been thinking, everyone is stealing our ideas, everyone is doing the eBay of their country. And what we missed was the opposite was starting to happen, that people were going into China and recognizing, for example, that bike share is a thing. And they bring back bike sharing to the U.S, right? Which I interviewed a founder who did that. We need to be aware of what’s going on outside the world...

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