Summary
Aaqib Gadit is a serial entrepreneur and investor with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud, infra, open source and cybersecurity ventures from Dubai. As Founding Partner at Disrupt.com and co-founder of Cloudways and PureVPN, he has led products from bootstrap to a $350M exit and then ran GTM and revenue at DigitalOcean post-acquisition. He combines operator grit with venture-building instincts, co-founding, funding and operationally scaling diverse startups across Managed Cloud, Web3, AI and Cybersecurity. A Stanford Executive Program alumnus and founding board member of the regional Endeavor chapter, he uniquely blends technical product intuition with global go-to-market leadership. Notably, he has repeatedly turned infrastructure-focused ideas into high-margin, acquisition-ready businesses that serve millions of users worldwide.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Executive Program, Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics at NED University of Engineering and Technology