Founder. Builder. Occasional contrarian.

I'm Tarun. I've spent the last eight years building Routespring — a B2B corporate travel platform now being rebuilt around AI for airline crew operations. This is where I think out loud about all of it.

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I grew up in New Delhi and now live outside Washington, DC with my wife and two sons. I've visited forty-plus countries, read too much hard science fiction, and genuinely believe long drives with the right podcast are underrated therapy.

Routespring is a corporate travel management platform. Our anchor customer is Breeze Airways, and we're in the middle of a 90-day pivot — away from generalist corporate travel, toward the specific, unglamorous, enormously expensive problem of how airlines manage their crews. If you've ever spent a night at a hotel paid for by an airline because of a cancelled flight, that's the problem space.

Before Routespring I co-founded UP Robotics. I still coach a robotics team on the side, which keeps me honest about what "actually working" means.

I write here with two commitments. First: real numbers. ARR, pricing decisions, customer wins and losses, the shape of deals. Second: real reasoning. Not the sanitized founder-blog version where everything looks obvious in retrospect. The version where I tell you what I got wrong.

If any of that is useful to you, you can subscribe to The Manifest or reach me via the Jumpseat.