Driving Performance Season S3E8: Featuring Akash Raju, Cofounder of Glimpse

Driving Performance Season S3E8: Featuring Akash Raju, Cofounder of Glimpse

From Driving Performance by Adgile Media Group

December 29, 2025 · 47 min · Season 3 · Episode 8

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In this episode, Akash Raju discusses his journey in founding Glimpse, an AI platform for automating retail deduction management.

In this episode of Driving Performance, we sit down with Akash Raju, founder and CEO of Glimpse, the AI-powered platform helping consumer brands recover lost revenue by automating retail deduction management. Founded while Akash was still in college and officially launched in April 2024, Glimpse tackles one of the most costly and overlooked problems in CPG: deductions. Driven by retailer complexity, manual workflows, and outdated accounting systems, deductions can drain 20–30% of a brand’s profit margins, with a meaningful portion - around 10% of charges - being invalid. Glimpse uses AI to automate the entire process—helping brands recover revenue they’ve already earned. Adgile cofounders Tom Shea and Max Flannery dive into Akash’s path from growing up in the DC suburbs to studying engineering at Purdue, where he gravitated toward entrepreneurship and met his co-founders. Before Glimpse, Akash sharpened his technical chops interning at Tesla—pulling 4 and 5 a.m. shifts on the factory floor—and later at Microsoft, building AI/ML tools for Python developers inside VS Code. Akash also walks us through getting into Y Combinator, the interview process, and the moment it all felt…

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