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🎙 Podcast Episode
🚀 Vishnu Mohandas: Building Ente, Leaving Google & The Future of Secure Photo Storage
In this episode, we sit down with Vishnu Mohandas, founder of Ente.io, a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted photo storage app. Vishnu shares his journey from hacking Android kernels in college to working at Google, Directi, and Zeta Suite, and ultimately building a challenger to Google Photos. We discuss open-source, entrepreneurship, handling competition, and the future of AI in storage.
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🔹 Timestamps:
⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:50 - Current status of Ente
05:26 - Why open source?
06:27 - Vishnu’s journey
12:38 - How do you get a job at Google?
14:36 - Why did you leave Google?
19:11 - Google Photos vs. Ente: A comparison
21:33 - How does Ente make money?
25:12 - Why use a Malayalam word for the name?
28:11 - Risks of competing with Google Photos
32:21 - How does the backup process work in Ente?
36:46 - Was making money a concern?
39:59 - How would you build Ente today?
44:59 - Handling trolls and negative comments
48:05 - Marketing and advertising strategies
57:51 - How does Vishnu work?
01:00:34 - About Auth (Authentication & Security)
01:05:23 - Health, Wealth, and Relationships
01:08:00 - Reaction after quitting Google
01:09:29 - AI’s role in storage & future use cases
01:14:37 - ‘Web to remain’—what does it mean?
01:15:33 - Outro
📢 If you're a founder, investor, or aspiring entrepreneur, this episode is packed with insights on how to build, scale, and sell a startup successfully!
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🎤 Guest Info
Guest Name → Vishnu Mohandas
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