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\u201cI am trying to complete my father\u2019s story,\u201d Arvind Parthiban<\/a> told me while staring at the green waters of Cancun, Mexico. It was September 2021, and we were quarantining in the city before taking a flight to the US to celebrate Freshworks\u2019 historic IPO on the NASDAQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long after Arvind had left his deck chair to go to bed, I continued staring at the ocean. Even after we grow up, we transform ourselves into children when we speak about our parents and the values they instilled in us. We use those lessons as guiding lights, illuminating our path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s FWD isn\u2019t the same as all the others, primarily because it\u2019s about two people rolled into one. This is not to say that Arvind isn\u2019t his own man but that so much of who he is is also a result of his father\u2019s ambitions and ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arvind finally lowered his guard in Cancun almost 10 years after Girish Mathrubootham introduced us at the Goa Project. Girish introduced Arvind as a dear friend and founder. Arvind was polite and reserved yet friendly. We made small talk and parted ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met again a few years later at a two-day event on the campus of a large IT services company. I won\u2019t name it because of what follows. This company\u2019s campus had strict rules on alcohol and smoking. But we managed to sneak some in anyway. We partied hard and ended the night with Arvind passed out on the couch in my room, with one leg resting on a shoe rack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the party, Arvind missed no tricks. He had a quiver of retorts, which he shot with abandon. No one was safe from them, including yours truly. The warm hugs and handshakes would tell you that he meant no offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kept bumping into each other at events and started to build our relationship. With each meeting, Arvind would tell me a little more about himself. In one meeting, he told me that his father was an entrepreneur. In another, Arvind discussed how his father\u2019s most significant victory was not the scale of his company but the impact. He proudly told me that even though his father didn\u2019t achieve immense monetary success, every employee, even after his father retired, would speak about their time spent working together as the most gratifying of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arvind\u2019s ambition has been to scale his company and replicate his father\u2019s impact on the lives of those he worked with. That was his true north star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I can tell you that Arvind is a VC magnet. He can raise capital at will. I can tell you he\u2019s charming because he manages to hire some of the brightest minds in the world without effort. But I\u2019ll leave my journalist friends to write that story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I asked Arvind about his secret while on our eleventeenth<\/em> drink in Cancun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmpathy,\u201d Arvind told me, \u201cwas my father\u2019s secret.\u201d Through the years, Arvind has channeled that empathy at SaaSBoomi, whether by opening his playbook for founders nationwide or stepping up to organise tracks when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 2024 edition of Caravan, Arvind decided to own the GTM track. We had been struggling to get quality speakers that would genuinely be able to help founders in a time when capital is hard to come by and AI is disrupting business models. Arvind stepped in, found speakers, curated the content, and ensured that the track addressed the trepidations of young, early-stage entrepreneurs. The NPS of that track was above 90. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arvind, during the track, was focused primarily on the founders. He picked up body language cues to guide him on improving the track the next time. Arvind felt kinship with founders who were building their companies in volatile times. After the event, he had an unfiltered chat with the founders, encouraging them to follow outlier ideas. No ideas are bad, he told them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEither you will become the story, or you\u2019ll have a story to tell,\u201d he told one of my colleagues right after the track ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He must know. He has been enthralling me with stories for the past decade. Let\u2019s write a few more together, Arvind. There\u2019s a long way to go, and we just got started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SaaSBoomi began in 2015 as a small gathering of ~50 founders, and today, with over 500 events across three countries and countless lives touched, we\u2019ve only just scratched the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this would have been possible without the unrelenting passion of our 125+ volunteers \u2014 the lifeblood of SaaSBoomi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their contributions go beyond effort; they\u2019ve built a community bound by camaraderie, empathy, and a shared vision for a Product Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay it FWD<\/a><\/strong> is my tribute to every pay-it-forward champion I\u2019ve encountered on this incredible journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their contributions to SaaSBoomi and the broader ecosystem have been immeasurable, yet there remains a story left to be told \u2014 one that echoes the impact they continue to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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