Umesh
Co-founder & CEO at Runable
Building a General AI Agent that can handle any digital task and achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks
Intro
I'm Umesh, Co-founder & CEO at Runable, building a General AI Agent that can handle any digital task. My journey started with founding SkoolStream (which got acquired), then working at Salesforce where I won an EngX award, founding Unbind which grew to 130,000 users, and now leading Runable to achieve state-of-the-art performance on AI benchmarks. I'm passionate about turning ideas into products rapidly, valuing execution over concepts, and building tools that actually work in the real world. I'm looking for top-tier technical talent and product designers who believe in our vision and thrive in high-intensity environments. I offer leadership in a fast-growing startup, challenging problems, and a community for builders through events like our RunTogether hackathon.
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What I can offer
- ›Leadership of a fast-growing AI startup
- ›High compensation
- ›Challenging technical/product problems
- ›Community for builders via hackathons and events
What I'm looking for
- ›Top-tier technical talent (full-stack, frontend engineers)
- ›Insanely good product designers
- ›AI builders committed to high-intensity work environment
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Background
Career
Started as Co-Founder at SkoolStream (acquired), then SDE Intern at Salesforce, Co-Founder at Unbind, Software Engineer at Salesforce, Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, now Co-founder & CEO at Runable
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), July 2019 to May 2023
Achievements
- ›Won EngX award at Salesforce for solving enums limit in Java
- ›Grew Unbind to 130,000 NEET aspirants in 5 months bootstrapped
- ›SkoolStream was acquired
- ›Runable 2.0 achieves SOTA performance on benchmarks including GAIA, DRACO, BrowserComp, and SlidesBench
Opinions
- Many startup ideas never get built and need tools to execute quickly
- Output and execution matter more than prototypes or concepts
- The only validation that matters as a founder is positive feedback from respected peers and users
- Existing Agentic AI tools are shiny demos that fail at real work
- Practical skill and output matter more than formal credentials
Personality
Communication style
Confident, direct, highly promotional of company, switches between casual/conversational and formal/driven
Formality — 4/10
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