Gaurav Mishra

CEO

Cupertino, California, United States26 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Four decades of experience in product development and leadership.
Pioneered India's first crawler-based search engine.
Expert in AI-driven revenue intelligence solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and product management.

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File SystemsNASHadoopbig dataStorage managementSearch AdvertisingOrganic SearchMachine LearninghdfshbaseAgile Project ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementEntrepreneurial SkillsInformation Retrieval

About

I have spent four decades turning ideas into products and teams into momentum. The tools have changed, but the questions have not. Why do people get stuck? What slows decisions down? What actually moves the needle? That curiosity led me to neural networks in the 90s, when AI was still an academic pursuit. It shaped the vision behind Guruji, India’s first crawler-based search engine, and later informed product leadership at Yahoo, Uber, and ShareChat. Clarity is the thread that ties it all together. I enjoy uncovering what truly matters in a product, a team, or a strategy, and then removing everything that does not. At Proshort we simplify and redefine sales execution with AI Agents that help you stay one step ahead, surfacing the best moves at the right time to close more deals. We empower revenue teams with strategic guidance and actionable deal insights to accelerate revenue and scale consistent success.

Experience

Proshort

Chief Executive Officer

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Sharechat

Senior Vice President

Nov 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Uber

Head of Product, UberAI, Data & MP Platforms

Jun 2016 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

July 2019- Oct 2019
Head of product of Marketplace Platform - Experimentation platform, Fares, Uber AI, Data, ML(MichaelAngelo), Diagnostics/Monitoring
May 2016 - June 2019
Product lead for Search, Location Data, Routing and Navigation

Relcy, inc.

VP Product Management

Sep 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Facebook

Product Manager

Mar 2014 – Sep 2014 · 6 mos · Menlo Park, California

People, Places and Things

Yahoo

Director, Software Systems

Jan 2010 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

I am leading the engineering and the product team at Yahoo Search which is building an Entity Graph. The Search Entity Graph will be used to power web and mobile search experience. Built the team and product from ground up to a successful launch in six months, the platform was built using grid ( hdfs, base).
I lead the Yahoo mail platform and Smartmail product team. As part of this effort I led a team to design and implement a new no-sql based initiative for our next generation of mail system. Smartmail is an effort to extract meta-data from the email data and build next generation of email experiences.
I lead the product management for the Web of Objects. Web of Objects is Yahoo's initiative to connect all the entities of the world and build a semantic web of entities on hdfs (Hadoop File System). The graph is used to power many of the current use cases of Yahoo like Y! movies, Y! local and Y! events. It is a big data initiative to do information retrieval on both structured and unstructured web.
I was the product lead for Y!'s content management system and lead the platform products which perform content on boarding and enrichment at scale. I worked on the Content Optimization Engine (CORE/COKE) to integrate the trend detection system (Timesense) and Real Time User Feedback (extracted from Search logs) on to the CORE platform.

Guruji.com

Co-Founder & COO

Jan 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Guruji is a search engine for India, at Guruji we built a search engine from bottom up by crawling the web for India related content and indexing the information. We also built our own advertising engine and used it for serving ads on our search engine and other third parties.

Microsoft, startups..

Various - Software engineering & Product Roles

Jan 1997 – Jan 2005 · 8 yrs · San Jose, CA

Got hired into Intellisync through an acquisition of a company PdaApps (worked closely with the founders of the startup), which was developing a mobile instant messaging solution. Wrote mobile app for blackberry and Treo.