Vikesh Tiwari
Vikesh Tiwari

Vikesh Tiwari

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Founder, TexAu · GTM software for teams under 20 · Building on land I own
Notes here daily, X sometimes, LinkedIn never (not by choice).

Developer turned founder. I like to build internet tools for people, with kindness and empathy in mind. Before TexAu I built chatbots and backends for startups in the UK, Canada, South Africa and Germany.

LinkedIn restricted my profile in October 2026, so this is my profile now. What happened.

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Notes

  1. This site is live. LinkedIn restricted my profile this month, so this is where we connect…
  2. 10 GTM tools builders are talking about right now.
  3. Most GTM engineers are overpaying for data enrichment.
  4. This week X open-sourced the entire outbound stack.
  5. Most founders are paying a 900% markup on GTM data.
  6. Had a conversation with someone on my team this week about being impulsive. It's been…
  7. People aren't forever, you can't engineer loyalty, you defend the business with product,…
  8. When I was 24, I took my first flight.
  9. Meta sent my startup a cease-and-desist.
  10. Meta shut us down. LinkedIn took us to court.

Experience

  1. 2020 to now
    Founder, TexAu

    A growth automation platform. Built 100+ integrations with third-party tools. 7,000+ businesses use it.

  2. 2019
    Contract Software Engineer, Blyng

    Built the whole backend of a real-estate AI chatbot, with French, Chinese and WhatsApp support.

  3. 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, LawDroid

    Voice chatbots for lawyers on the Clio API. 20+ chatbots and automation tools for law firms in total.

All 9 roles and education
  1. 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, TouchFoundry

    Microservices on AWS for an Airbnb-like product.

  2. 2017 to 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, Penta

    One of three early developers at the fintech. Most of the backend, payments and banking integration. Penta was later acquired by Finleap.

  3. 2017
    Co-founder and CTO, Speedbox

    Logistics startup. Hired and led a team of 8.

  4. 2016
    Test Automation Intern, Slack

    Automated the QA setup and wrote UI and API tests.

  5. 2015 to 2016
    Software Engineering Intern, Directi (CodeChef)

    Built the CodeChef OAuth 2.0 API and its developer page.

  6. 2014 to 2018
    Co-founder, Eulercoder

    Non-profit that taught programming. Ran the FreeCodeCamp Mumbai and Pune groups, 8,000+ students.

  7. 2017
    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

    Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Open source: core team at Botpress, contributor to Botkit. Code at github.com/vicky002.

Articles

  1. 55 quotes of Naval Ravikant that can change your life
  2. The cost of not using your own product.
  3. The legal industry is still missing the power of automation
  4. Planning to do Lifetime deal for your SaaS, read this first.
  5. How we made $450K launching TexAu on AppSumo
All 10 articles
  1. What is That Automation Guy
  2. Twitter Growth Series: Part 1
  3. The most important Google Sheet functions I use every day
  4. [Personal] Slack Internship Experience, San Francisco and Silicon Valley
  5. [Personal] 7.5 and Below

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Open to: coffee in Bombay, arguments about GTM tooling. Not a new job.

Account status: Facebook and Instagram disabled since 2023. LinkedIn restricted since October 2026. This site: available.

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