Ashwin Raghu

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Co-Founder / CTO at Maybern

New York, New York, United States

Overview

Ashwin Raghu is the Co-Founder and CTO of Maybern, a fintech company building an operating system for private funds. He has extensive experience leading engineering teams, previously serving as CTO at Cadre and Head of Data Engineering for Instagram in New York. He holds a B. S. E from the University of Michigan.

His professional focus is on building and scaling teams to tackle complex problems in the financial technology sector. He has a demonstrated passion for modernizing the systems that power private markets, moving them from legacy solutions like spreadsheets to sophisticated, data-driven platforms.

He grew the Instagram Data Engineering team in New York from being the first hire to a 20-person team in under a year.

Personality Overview

Consensus Focused

Non-Confrontational

Optimistic

They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional.  Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials. They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.


Topics They Care About

Private Funds Technology
Co-founded Maybern to create a modern operating system for private funds and previously modernized the investment lifecycle as CTO at Cadre.
Scaling Engineering Teams
Stated interest in building teams and grew his data engineering team at Instagram from 1 to 20 engineers in less than a year. He is actively hiring.
Fintech Platform Development
Focuses on creating unified platforms that transform finance teams into strategic leaders, consolidating fragmented processes into a single source of truth.

Media Appearances

Ashwin has no verified media appearances

Work History

2-2022
Co-Founder / CTO at Maybern
3-2021 - 2-2022
Chief Technology Officer at Cadre
6-2020 - 3-2021
Vice President Of Engineering at Cadre
6-2018 - 6-2020
Senior Director Of Engineering at Cadre
5-2017 - 6-2018
Head of Data Engineering, Instagram New York at Instagram

Education

2003 - 2007
B.S.E from University of Michigan

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Insights For Selling To Ashwin

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Give them the opportunity to lead the conversation where possible
  • Refer to interesting customer testimonials and stress on great customer experience
  • Invite them for a lunch or a drink/coffee

DONT's

  • Avoid overloading them with too much information
  • Don’t be too formal with them, they trust informality more
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be like a storyteller with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Ashwin is

  • Relationship and rapport are valuable for them, but so is proven product value.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Ashwin

  • They are unlikely to say no directly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Ashwin move?

  • They are not very fast decision makers, even while they continue to stay engaged.
  • Can Ashwin take some risk or not?

  • They can take some low-probability risks if needed.

You And Ashwin

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