With Postman, Abhinav Asthana has built an API powerhouse that is changing the way developers look at software, helping them take an 'API-first' approach
Abhinav Asthana, co-founder and CEO, Postman
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When we started, there was a lot of scepticism, and bias even, among people in India that one cannot build a global product from India,” Abhinav Asthana, co-founder and CEO of Postman, said in a recent interview with Forbes India. So there was little incentive for customers in the US, the world’s biggest technology market, to take the idea of an Indian-origin product company seriously.
Today, companies like Postman are at the forefront of a massive shift that is overhauling that perception—bringing world-class software products to customers around the world. In Postman’s case, the tech is about making it ever so easy for businesses to use APIs or application program interfaces—pieces of software that allow disparate applications to talk to each other.
(This story appears in the 31 December, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)