Gaurav Chandrashekar

Founder

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in launching and scaling fintech products.
Proven track record in product-led growth strategies.
Strong background in AI-driven product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI product leader with extensive experience in product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

APIsBusiness StrategyCustomer AcquisitionCustomer InsightGo-to-Market StrategyICPJavaScriptPositioningProduct DevelopmentProduct Led GrowthProduct MarketingSegmentationSoftware DevelopmentStrategic PlanningStrategy

About

I have had the privilege to work with world class product teams at Spotify, PayPal, Grab to kickstart and build early stage 0-1 products and lead them to the early growth phases >1. ➡️ If you are an early stage founder wondering if your product has wings, especially to thrive in the AI era, with a focus on thinking through hybrid sales / PLG motion(s) ➡️ If you are a scale stage founder finding it hard to decide if you need a CPO/ Head of Product or feel like you haven't had fit with previous hires, or ➡️ If you are a product leader needing help to uplevel your team in a limited time/scope, or I can spend 30m to add value to inform you to make the decision that feels right for you, after you fill a 1 min form: https://productscale.xyz/services

Experience

Productscale.xyz

Founder / Self Employed

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Amsterdam Area

What immediate value I add:
Product Strategy: Nail positioning, segmentation, and differentiation, in that order
Experimentation: Ideate on and execute PLG tests / hybrid motions, validate product channel fit.
Fractional / Interim Product Management: IC and Managerial, for pat/mat cover or testing a Head of Product for a scale stage founder
Product, Design and Engineering: Hiring Strategy and Execution, based on your organizational needs, particularly with AI's newfound influence
Specializing: Fintech, B2B2C Marketplaces, FMCG, API first products, LLM native products
VCs/Accelerators partnered with: Angular Ventures, 1848 Ventures, ShillingVC, ScaleNL and more
Clients include: Useflash, Heineken Digital, Framer, Framedrop, ProductHub

Product ManagementProduct Led GrowthPositioningICPSegmentationProduct Strategy

Paypal

Group Product Manager

May 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Singapore

Launched and scaled Card Linking for Consumers (in PayPal Checkout, PayPal Apps and the banking apps), working closely with the top 5 banks in the US, hitting 100M$/yr run rate.
API: https://developer.paypal.com/limited-release/paypal-provisioning-platform/integrate/

Product Management

Grab

Product Lead, GrabPay

Feb 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore, Singapore

Launched Grab wallets as a platform to give users a frictionless way to pay for all the Grab services including Food and Transport across South East Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia)
https://www.grab.com/sg/consumer/finance/pay/

Product Management

Markable ai

Head of Product, AI

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · New York, United States

AI (CNN) based visual search API as a service product product with a 15 member team. This time post Merchii, validated PMF and GTM'ed from 100K$ ARR to XM$ / markable.ai

Product Management

Merchii / flipsicle, inc.

Co-Founder, exited / acquihired

Jun 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Stockholm

Launched a visual search (image tagging) product for increasing checkout conversion (with manual tagging). Sold the tech to Flipsicle.com after missing PMF.
https://www.vinnova.se/p/produktplaceringstjanst-for-bloggare-genom-bildtaggning/
https://yourstory.com/2014/10/raghava-kk-launches-flipsicle

Entrepreneurship