Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• At Ema, we’re working on groundbreaking technologies to enable a Universal AI Employee who can work hand-in-hand with human colleagues. We envision Ema to be a force for good to reduce repetitive and tedious tasks so human employees can focus on more strategic, creative and purposeful work. We believe Ema will bring in a generational shift in how enterprises work in the future. Come join us!

Feb 2023 – Apr 2023 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Feb 2020 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for Product Management, Design, User Research and Strategic Programs at Coinbase. Helped take the company public in 2021. Approx. 10x-ed revenue and active users in 3 years.

Feb 2017 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, California

• Google Shopping includes advertising (product image based ads on search, image search, YouTube etc.), all organic product search results on Google.com and shopping.google.com.
• In the 3 years I grew Google shopping revenue by 3X into multiple tens of billions of dollars per year. Also grew organic shopping to 1B users.

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Oct 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Head of product at Flipkart with responsibilities for PM, UX,Product Ops and Analytics reporting to the CEO.
• Doubled Flipkart's GMV during my tenure. Launched locally relevant products like buy-now-pay-later and product exchange offers for the first time a country where 99% users don't have a credit rating.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Los Altos, California

• Few of the companies I've invested in:
• Udemy, Palantir Technologies, TrueLayer, Remote, AplhaFlow, Skillshare, Roverlabs, Activity Hero, BloomReach

Jun 2008 – Nov 2015 · 7 yrs 5 mos

• Founded Mobile Ads team and grew it from 0 to half of Google's revenue base.
• Launched hundreds of features and products. Many 0-$1B products.
• Notable products include Enhanced Campaigns, Ads in Play Store, Proximity Based Bidding, Online to Store Attribution, Universal App Campaigns (UAC), Click-to-call Ads.

May 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Enabling AdWords customers in all countries and regions to pay using local currencies and local forms of payments

Jul 2006 – May 2007 · 10 mos

• Lead product manager for a strategically important emerging product at Symantec. Owns the business plan, strategy, forecasting, pricing and positioning of the product. Job includes:
• Working closely with full cross-functional team including engineering, product marketing, sales, channels, service and support, operations and strategic alliances for managing product delivery from concept to launch.
• Creating product roadmap and making build/buy/partner decisions.
• Creating market positioning based on competitive and customer needs analysis and communicating that positioning to sales team and external audiences.
• Interacting with customers and prospects to define market requirements, and translating these requirements into product requirements that the engineering team can deliver within specification, on time, and within budget.
• Creating and delivering sales training for the direct sales force as well as channel partner sales forces.

Jun 2005 – Aug 2005 · 2 mos

• Analyzed market positioning and value proposition of a key product and recommended changes in the product resulting in cost savings of $2 million
• Identified gaps in product portfolio and created business case for entering a new market
• Performed due diligence and recommended strategic acquisitions worth $100 million

Sep 1999 – Jun 2004 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• High availability
• Distributed Systems
• Oracle cluster registry
• Distributed management infrastructure for Real Application Clusters

Feb 1999 – Sep 1999 · 7 mos

• Led process and design improvements resulting in higher productivity and customer satisfaction
• Received award for exceptional performance and leadership among a group of 250 engineers

May 1998 – Sep 1998 · 4 mos

• Invented a model to predict customer system failures and suggest proactive actions, resulting in 20% cost savings for target IBM customers