I'm Kanha Jodhpurkar. PlanetScale runs the kind of small, high-trust team I'd want to grow inside of. The family feel, the environment that pushes everyone to do their best work, and the values it's built on are why I'd want to stay and get genuinely great at this in one place, not pass through it. A few I've run are below, plus field notes on the 60+ I've turned up to.
I'll own every piece with real pride, build the workflows that make the next one run tighter, and keep learning the parts I haven't touched yet.
Organizations I've actually shown up for, ASU and Startup Village, anti-hunger nonprofits Share Our Strength and Akshaya Patra, and India's largest hackathon community.
Hosted and ran a 350+ person pitch night end to end, run-of-show, speaker flow, venue staging, registration, and live execution on the night.
Sourced and set the room at Frontier Tower, called around to caterers and grabbed the food, ran to Target for the prizes, coordinated sponsors and judges, sequenced the pitches, kept the night on time, and stayed for the full breakdown after the last guest left.
Named to the planning committee for large-scale, VIP-heavy anti-hunger fundraisers with Akshaya Patra, the executive-dinner end of events. Coordinated dozens of vendors and staff, worked directly with high-net-worth donors and C-suite execs, and was on the ground for every bit of it.
These nights drew names like world-renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor and Grammy winner Shankar Mahadevan, whose first public appearance after his 2024 win we scoped and pulled together on a tight timeline.
Hosted and organized Village Hacks at Arizona State University in partnership with Startup Village, a 24-hour hackathon that put 300+ builders in one room to solve real, startup-backed problems and present directly to founders, operators, and investors.
Co-hosted with Yuuvraaj Jain and Tejas Gupta, stood up in about two weeks: locked in sponsors and partners, Clean, Silicon Oasis, LvlUp Ventures, GitHired, Hult International Business School, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and more, sourced the room, handled registration and swag, and ran it end to end. On the line for builders: $2,000+ in cash, platform credits, internship interviews, VC pitch sessions, paid startup roles, and a path to up to $1M in funding.
