"Shalini Aggarwal: Andy and I began working together in 2015, after I relocated to the US from India. He was a dev engineer, and I worked on the product and program execution side. Aggarwal: We quickly realized that we took a lot of systems and tools for granted when we were in an enterprise company. The startup world is completely different; here, we have to build from scratch, and there was a lot about our mindset we had to unlearn."
"Andy Ratsirason: I joined Amazon for the first time in 2014 because I wanted to be part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, so I tried to tailor my career to suit that goal. I left Amazon, came back in 2020, and left again in 2023. After I left for the last time, I made multiple pivots in founding a startup."
Shalini Aggarwal and Andy Ratsirason worked together at Amazon starting in 2015 after Aggarwal relocated from India. Ratsirason joined Amazon in 2014, pursued entrepreneurship, left and returned before departing in 2023. After multiple pivots following his final exit, Ratsirason reached out to Aggarwal after she began engaging with startup-related posts on his LinkedIn feed. They reunited to cofound Tenfli, an AI startup. Both realized they had taken enterprise systems and tools for granted and faced a need to rebuild infrastructure from scratch. They identified a significant need to unlearn enterprise mindsets and adopt resourcefulness, rapid iteration, and startup operating habits.
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