Shashank Gupta — Head of Growth
My DNA is of an entrepreneur. I like to take complete ownership, lead the team, be a resilient problem solver, a courageous experimenter, and be ever-hungry. I am a self-driven and motivated Entrepreneur with a proven track record of success and extraordinary achievements in building a company from a simple idea to a stellar business. Started Nom with the primary objective of solving the adoption of sustainable solutions across the world. Took on single-use plastics in the form of cutlery and replaced them with value-add products such as edible cutleries. Replaced over 5Mn+ plastic cutlery with our edible straws, spoons, and cups across 10+ countries and did our contribution to saving the environment too. Building the international business was difficult with zero experience however after 2+ years, we were successful in taking Nom international. Based on our learning, we created structures and processes to launch a cross-border Saas helping Indian D2C brands go international via our platform - LaunchX. I love human interactions and thus would have spoken to 2500+ users across products for user research purposes. Business growth, operations, technology, product marketing, and leadership comes naturally to me. Remember, my DNA is of an entrepreneur. Btw, I come from a 'baniya'(business) family which might explain the DNA. Made and lost a lot of $$ in crypto. In order to make it back, go deep into web3. Fun fact - Ran a 'friends and family' crypto mutual fund where we'd trade on total sum and make money. Had over $100K+ as AUM. All this led to observing a problem, validating the opportunity, and working on Cotry as a side hustle. I hit the gym 4 times a week and remaining 3 days, I eat junk food. In the last 5 years, I've hit rock bottoms so many times but somehow survived and kept on walking. My favorite quote and my WA status for the last 6 years - Dream big, Execute small.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS entrepreneur with strong expertise in growth marketing and product management.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 14 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Growth Marketing
- Go-to-market Strategy
- B2b Marketing
- Product Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Product Strategy
- Web3
- Customer Acquisition
- Influencer Marketing
- Project Management
Career Highlights
- Successfully scaled Nom to international markets.
- Led growth strategies for fintech products with 50M+ users.
- Expert in product management and growth marketing.
Work Experience
FPL Technologies
Head of Growth (1 yr 11 mos)
Unstudio.ai
Product and Growth (5 mos)
Cotry
Founder and Product owner (1 yr)
Nomcompany
Co-founder & CEO (5 yrs 5 mos)
Shop101
Product Management (1 yr 11 mos)
BLINGE
Growth Product Manager (6 mos)
Reliance
Graduate Engineering trainee (4 mos)
Fluidyn
Summer intern on Verification of VOF method and safety parameters for bund in oil refinery. (2 mos)
Numaligarh Refinery Limited
Summer Trainee (1 mo)
Alcheringa , I.I.T Guwahati
Corporate relations and Marketing Executive (1 yr)
Technothlon, IIT Guwahati
City representative of Technothlon (International school competition for classes 9-12) (0 mo)
I.I.T Guwahati
Student (3 yrs 10 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at I.I.T guwahati
AISSCE at sunbeam school
Product and Growth leader at GrowthX®