Sourcebits was founded by Rohit in 2006, as product company building Flex and iPhone applications. Luck = opportunity meets the preparedness, Sourcebits built a right product at the right time. Night Stand was such a phenomenal success, it opened world of opportunities for Rohit. Not to take away the credit from his vision or hard work, but the success of Sourcebits was just magical to say the least.
The company has reached 200+ developers and expanding fast. When I first decided to join Sourcebits over other offers I had, I was not very sure of its growth trajectory. It seemed like a big risk at the time, but I am glad I took the leap of faith and leaving an opportunity to work with India's fastest growing mobile company was difficult to walk away from. Leaving aside the great experiences I had in India, the Sourcebits opened up wonderful opportunities for me.
I started of as a VP - IT and with time role clarity resulted in me finally settling down as VP - Engineering. Sourcebits has Service, Product and Game division. I run the the delivery team for the Service Division. As is common with any startup which experiences an exponential growth, it is not always prepared to handle the complexities of scalability. Scaling an organization for expanded operations is a complex undertaking and I have seen very few entrepreneurs have had the vision. I would not claim Sourcebits was any different, but I do have to agree that they realized the issue earlier the most. Bringing in senior management, be it VP, CTO, Delivery Heads and creating a organizational structure was a first step in the right direction.
To attain scalability for any organization, specially the service organization, it has to invest in People, Systems, Process. Hiring the senior team took care of one aspect of People, but culture or DNA of an organization takes time.
Rohit has also given me a free hand in deploying IT systems to handle the scale problem. We are building some amazing systems using open source tools. The last aspect, process is a change management challenge. I think it is going in the right direction.
Overall, I would rate joining Sourcebits as one of the best decisions I took apart from deciding to go back to school for MIT. I think this company has great future, if it can successfully navigate the Chasm(from the book "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers").
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