Rushabh Mehta of ERPNext on how he's building a community, not just a company

Pankaj Mishra


Great ecosystems are built on building blocks that are diverse
and bring different communities and ideologies together.
Homogenous building blocks create commoditised environments with
absolutely short-lived differentiation and a common race to the
bottom.


India's SaaS ecosystem brings enough diversity in terms of
business models and products, even ideologies, to keep
storytellers like me excited and interested in people who make
it.


Rushabh Mehta, this week's guest on the SaaSBOOMi podcast,
underscores the diversity in India SaaS as I mentioned above. In
a world focused on B2BSaaS products joining the battle of the
proprietary platforms, ERPNext, offers one of the world's only
open source ERP.


It's a path not many have taken because it's not financially
rewarding and bootstrapping isn't a choice--there's no other way.


Rushabh and his company Frappe Technologies have some amazing
insights about building a company based on the First Principles.


Listen to this podcast to learn from ERPNext and Rushabh's
journey how to build a community and not just a company. And
doing all that based on the First Principles that include no
sales targets or incentives, and a truly non-hierarchical
organization.


The following blogs make for deep, additional read on what makes
Frappe an amazing culture that's #BuiltToLast 


A 40 Person Company That Runs Without Spreadsheets


Performance and Compensation


Towards Collective Decision Making: From a team without managers
to a team with collective leadership