Coffee with a Founder Podcast: Nikhil Sethi, Workgrounds
On this episode of Coffee with a Founder, Beck Bamberger sits down with Nikhil Sethi, co-founder and CEO of Workgrounds. After building and selling his first company to Accenture, Nikhil jumped back in to solve a surprisingly painful problem: booking and managing hotel room blocks for teams.
The conversation dives into why group travel is still wildly manual, how distributed teams are reshaping how companies gather, and what it actually looks like to build a company the second time around.
If you’re into founders rebuilding with the same team, solving unsexy but real problems, and designing companies for how we actually work today, don’t miss this one.
show notes:
0:05: What Workgrounds is and the problem it solves
0:52: Why booking hotel room blocks is still broken
2:03: Giving smaller companies the buying power of big enterprises
3:16: The tailwind of distributed teams and in-person gatherings
5:18: Why Nikhil keeps building and founder “DNA”
9:58: The “napkin idea” that turned into funding overnight
12:25: What’s different the second time building a company
17:23: The org design unlock and operating with one meeting a week