S11 E12: The Agentic Auth Crisis: Why AI Agents Are Forcing SaaS to Shift from User Directories to Short-Lived Scoped Token Planes with Ravi Madabhushi, Co-Founder & CTO of ScaleKit

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Aug 12, 2025 · 25m

Ravi Madabhushi finds that all of the stops along his professional journey were accidental. He grew up in a tiny village in the south of India - so small, it would take you 10 minutes to sprint across it, end to end. His goals back then were common - get a job, get married, etc. - but after he moved to Bangalore post school, he got acquainted with startups... and was hooked. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids. He enjoys playing tennis, badminton, and squash. He got introduced to squash when he was playing tennis, it started raining, and they were forced inside to play "inside…