Building BrowserStack: From Coffee Shop to $4B SaaS | Ritesh Arora

Back in 2011, while still in college, we (Ritesh Arora & Nakul Aggarwal) faced a simple yet frustrating problem: there was no easy way to test websites across browsers and devices. Over coffee and late-night discussions, BrowserStack was born. Fast forward to 2020, BrowserStack is 600 employees and 25,000+ customers strong—leading the second wave of SaaS in India.

In this BrowserStack Originals session, Ritesh Arora (Co-founder & CEO) and Nakul Aggarwal (Co-founder & CTO) share the inside story of BrowserStack’s journey — from its humble beginnings in Mumbai to becoming a $4B SaaS leader with millions of users worldwide.

Key Highlights
- Founding story: from IIT Bombay to coffee shop startup
- Early failures, product-market fit, and first 1,000 customers
- Scaling from 2 founders to 600+ employees across 4 offices
- Engineering challenges in cross-browser & mobile testing
- Launching Automate and scaling infrastructure across 15+ data centers
- Product strategy: when to diversify and when to acquire (Percy)
- Blitzscaling philosophy: from 100 to 600 employees
- Hiring, culture, and the principles that held true throughout the journey
- Vision: becoming the testing infrastructure for the internet

Learn more: https://www.browserstack.com/company/leadership/ritesh-arora
Connect with Ritesh: https://in.linkedin.com/in/ritesh-arora-browserstack
Follow BrowserStack: @Browserstack

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