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Rakesh Kamath

I scale companies. Not decks.

Rakesh Kamath

Give me an inch of responsibility and I'll turn it into a mile of ownership. That's been the pattern for twenty years.

I walk into companies where the traction is real but the systems are fragile. Nobody agrees on what the actual problem is. I sit with that ambiguity until the real problem surfaces, define it clearly, and build the team and process to solve it. Then I stay until the solution is running without me.

Co-founded and exited a SaaS platform that reached 5.8M users across 119 countries. Led a 60-person engineering organization toward $24M ARR. Turned a founder-led EdTech startup into an enterprise growth engine with 91% activation rates in a market where 65% is considered good.

This is where I write about what I've learned doing that.

Co-founder exit (2022)·60+ engineers led·$24M ARR org·114% ARR growth·5.8M users, 119 countries·~$600K/yr R&D credits captured

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What I'm thinking about

GTM Engineering

Why Your Engineering Team Isn't a Revenue Engine (Yet)

Most engineering orgs are optimized for shipping features, not driving revenue. Here are the five structural fixes that change that.

Jan 23, 2026·12 min read
Operating Cadence

The Fragile → Stable → Productive Arc

Every engineering team falls on a three-stage arc. The problem is almost never the people, it's the operating system they're running on.

Jan 16, 2026·8 min read
AI (Pragmatic)

What AI Operationalization Actually Looks Like

The AI features in your pitch deck are almost never the AI investments that move your business. Here's what actually works.

Jan 9, 2026·8 min read
GTM Engineering

Are You Working on the Right Thing?

There are two kinds of engineers: those who want to do it the right way, and those who want to work on the right thing. Most teams only have the first kind.

Feb 15, 2026·4 min read
GTM Engineering

Are You Working on the Right Thing?

There are two kinds of engineers: those who want to do it the right way, and those who want to work on the right thing. Most teams only have the first kind.

Feb 15, 2026·4 min read
Financial Discipline

The Financial Blind Spot That Kills Scaling Companies

A real example of how quarterly cash flow summaries hide a five-month gap between what leadership believes and what's actually happening.

Jan 2, 2026·3 min read
GTM Engineering

Your Activation Rate Is Your Real Product-Market Fit Metric

Most founders measure product-market fit wrong. Look at activation rate instead, the percentage of new accounts hitting meaningful value within 30 days.

Dec 26, 2025·3 min read

If your company has real traction but the systems underneath it are starting to crack, that's the problem I spend my time on.