Building 👨💻
I thrive working on ambitious ideas tackling gnarly problems.
In the past, I’ve built and launched products from 0 to 1 with millions in revenue (enterprise products) and millions in users (consumer products) as a Product Manager at startups (XMTP, OneTrust, Macstadium) and big tech (Microsoft, Apple).
Products I worked on most recently
Censorship resistant messaging protocol (XMTP)Unified data lake with SFTP support (Microsoft Azure)Idea mazes I’m exploring (and random musings)
These days, I am ideating and prototyping to build conviction in where I’ll allocate the next 5-10 years of my life. The idea, as Ruchi Sanghvi writes about in What is -1 to 0?, is “to tame the chaos of everything I could do into conviction in what I will do”. Conviction in something I can pour my life force building.
Increase freedom of movement for peopleDeMail: Privacy-Preserving, Decentralized Email MarketingThere is no freedom without a free marketLiving 🎒
My interests include startups, AI, protocols, poker, network states, web3, investing, philosophy, slomading (slow nomading), squash (the sport), and cricket.
- I’ve spent majority of my life in Seattle, Atlanta, Bangalore, and Rajkot.
- My nomad journey over the last year took me to Seward, Denver, San Francisco, Boston, Mumbai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Waterloo, Toronto, Delhi, Paris, Madrid, San Pedro, Rome, Vienna, Munich, Amsterdam, Barcelona.
- Fun fact: I only eat ice-cream on full moon days.
Investing 👼
I like supporting fellow founders and have angel invested in Flex, Percent, Doorstead, Magic, Lofty, Quicknode, Gentem, and other companies. Reach out if you’re raising. I do small checks, will be an active user, can open doors, and won’t be a pain in your side.
“One thing that has made Silicon Valley successful as a startup ecosystem are all the angels who write $1k checks into startups.” - @dunkhippo33
