Kartik Mishra

CEO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India15 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in e-commerce, Fintech, and Web3.
  • Led a $15MM ARR business vertical with a team of 100+.
  • Co-founded a neobank backed by Accel.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in business operations and growth strategies.

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About

15+ years of experience(1x founder, 2x operator) across e-commerce, Fintech and Web3 in bizops, growth, and PnL management across management consulting (McKinsey), and consumer internet startups (Dunzo, Practo). Pursued my entrepreneurial journey with Pillow - Neobank built on top of web3/crypto rails - Accel backed Series A. Have seen consumer tech organizations scale to 10M+ users under my stewardship and led a $15MM ARR business vertical managing a team of 100+ Have worked in the US, India, SE Asia, and MENA

Experience

Swish

Head of Business

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Jul 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai

  • Rest, recharge and experiment; traveled 4 continents; wrote 2.5 short stories; monetized 4 vibe coded apps.
  • Got deeper into web3 but got hit by the disconnect between the founding ideals (sovereign, trust-less systems) and current utility (mirroring a more efficient trad-fi)

Pillow

Co-Founder

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · Singapore

  • Financial services built on top Stablecoin /Web3 rails for frontier markets in Africa and SEA; Raised Series A from Accel, Elevation, Quona, and Jump; and founders of Polygon and FalconX
  • From how to play to where to play; not all businesses operate on 'Move Fast Break Things' ideology

Dunzo

2 roles

VP & Business Head

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Early hire; left in 2021 on eve of Series E
  • From cribbing about analysis paralysis to understanding the cost of sub-optimal decisions

Head - Growth & Strategic Initiatives

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

  • From a lone wolf to learning the difference between friend, manager, mentor and supervisor

Practo

2 roles

Chief of Staff

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

  • From getting to the right answer, to convincing others why it is the right answer

Lead - Growth/GTM & BI - International Expansion

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

  • From building ppts to realising that there are way more unknowns in actual execution

Mckinsey & company

Management Consultant

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • From jumping to solutions, to structuring problem statements better

Caterpillar inc.

Engineering Program Management/ 6 Sigma

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Peoria, Illinois, United States

  • From self learning to supervised learning

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — General Management

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B.Tech — Mechanical Engineering

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