Rohan Mahadevan

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Founder & CEO

Rohan is a Phd in astrophysics from Harvard, and spent 15 years with PayPal as it grew from $17b in payment volume to nearly $1T. He ran PayPal's International business and helped merchants transform customer experiences to meet the changing needs of consumers across the world.

Node is a transformative AI based eCommerce platform that allows merchant and consumers to instantly and directly engage- without the hassles of sign-ups, finding messages in cluttered personal email inboxes, being barraged by spam, or going through multi-click buying processes.

Node’s AI Digital Assistant app smartly filters and organizes all purchase related information, provides instant access to spam-free offers, personalizes loyalty and all communication, and enables instant repeat purchases - as a simple and single direct tap in the app, just like you do when you tap to pay at a coffee shop.

Sept. 29, 2025

Are Guest Checkouts Secretly Killing Your Shopify Growth?

70% of Shopify orders come from guest checkouts, and those shoppers are worth 2–3x less than logged-in customers. In this episode, I sit down with Rohan Mahadevan, former PayPal exec and founder of Node, to explore how “Commerce 3.0” is transforming guest checkout into a frictionless, loyal, repeat…