Karthik Sridharan

Co-Founder

India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded successful startup Flexiple with $3 million revenue.
Achieved 100,000+ downloads for buildd learning platform.
Expert in financial modeling and M&A transactions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech entrepreneur with strong financial acumen.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementFinancial Modeling

Other Skills

Investment BankingMicrosoft ExcelRuby on Rails

About

Started my journey as an Investment Banker working on M&A transactions including a €550 million acquisition. Then, I decided to walk away from my high-paying IB job. Joined the top MBA school in India - IIM Ahmedabad - and realized typical jobs are not for me. Quit the placements and began building my startup instead with two of my batchmates. That was the beginning of Flexiple - a 1-stop solution to hire dream developers for full-time or contract roles. Along with Flexiple, I’m also building buildd - the best & most fun way to learn a business skill for free. Just fallen in love with building businesses and I keep playing around with many side projects. My goal is to build my companies to $100 million in revenue. My current results: → Flexiple: $3 million in annual revenue → buildd: 100,000+ downloads (to monetize soon) → Side projects: $250,000 in annual revenue

Experience

Buildd

Co-Founder

Dec 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

TL;DR: “The best & most fun way to learn a business skill for free.”
We love building companies and well, the entire world of business. buildd is just our way of expressing that love :P.
Learning has become boring and painful. That will be changed with buildd where you can learn any business skill as if you were playing a game.
GOAL
buildd’s goal is to help a million people each year with their learning goals. Soon, when people want to learn a skill, their friends will ask them whether they are going to “buildd it”.
METRICS
100,000+ downloads
1000+ hours of content
100s of gamified learning paths

Side projects

Co-Founder

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

TL;DR: “Powering our dreams with ambitious side hustles”
The side projects started for fun & experimentally while we were trying to build our other companies. As we got better at certain skills such as content production, SEO and building products, we realized that these could actually be monetized and so we did!
GOAL
The goal in the short-term is to fund buildd with the money we make from these side projects. Long-term we want these side projects to be a way to hone certain skills of ours further and also as solid cash cows.
METRICS
1st Niche website: $180,000 (~INR 1.4 crores)
Private ads: $60,000 (~INR 50 lakhs)
Affiliate revenue: $12,000 (~INR 10 lakhs)

Flexiple

Co-Founder

Nov 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

TL;DR: “Flexiple helps companies build, manage & scale high-impact offshore teams & GCCs in India”
Flexiple is the first company we set out to build. It has been a long journey of ~9 years where we began immediately after graduating from IIM Ahmedabad.
We are making it super simple for global companies to access to top Indian talent. Flexiple is the only partner companies need for hiring, payrolling/ compliance, office space & IT hardware management and legal entity incorporation.
We have succeeded in this endeavour because we are highly tech-driven, while also understanding the importance of human touch in the people's business. Together, we are able to provide speed & scale to our clients, while remaining a true partner catering to all their needs in their India-growth journey.

Ruby on RailsProduct Management

J.p. morgan

Analyst

Jul 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Received offers to join three different teams at J.P. Morgan IB (London). Consistently a top-rated analyst of my batch.
Consumer & Retail Team
Sell side for €550mn of a tobacco company, preparation of the teaser and information memorandum
Valuation analyses for strategic alternatives of a European pharma company with market cap >$500mn
Involved in deals and preparation of pitch books, valuation models and other marketing materials
Extensive use of financial modelling, eg. DCF, trading & transaction comparables, Leveraged Buy-out analysis
M&A Team
Sole analyst creating roadshow content for 10 European corporates on synergies from M&A with US firms
Identified investment, strategic and acquisition opportunities by analysing prevalent M&A trends
Maximised synergies generated by M&A structuring through collaboration with various industry teams

Financial ModelingMicrosoft Excel