S8E376 - #376 – How Dinakara Nagalla turned aircraft mechanics into his biggest fans and built a successful exit
Published: September 3, 2025
Duration: 48:37
A story about building a cult following in the unglamorous world of aviation maintenance.
This episode is for SaaS founders exhausted from building "nice-to-have" solutions.
Most SaaS companies don't fail because of bad tech. They fail because they prefer to solve sexy problems instead of expensive ones.
Dinakara Nagalla, CEO of EmpowerMX (acquired by IFS), took a different path. He spent 14 years in aviation watching mechanics waste 50% of their day on paperwork. Instead of building another dashboard for executives, he built tools for the technicians themselves—and turned a cost center into a pr...