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Sometimes you have to be deep into a specialized industry to truly understand the areas needing solutions. As a teenager, Arjun Patel was racing forklifts at his dad\u2019s factory. In college, he was a plant manager focusing on quality, safety, and production optimization. After college, he became a manufacturing consultant. 

Growing up on a factory floor and learning its myriad intricacies gave Arjun the realization that there were no software solutions to track production lines. \u201cEverything was manual,\u201d Arjun says. \u201cThere\u2019s huge binders tracking logs of what was being done.\u201d 

This eventually led him to co-found WorkClout, a tech startup that offers a software solution for automotive engineering teams to improve quality.