Cherian Thomas

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Co-founded a successful food blogging platform.
Raised multiple rounds of funding from top venture funds.
Led teams in building iconic games generating millions in revenue.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in product management and team leadership.

Contact

cherian.in@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Other Skills

Team ManagementFundraisingAcquisition Negotiation

About

Executive, International expansion, M&A, distribution channels etc. Email me at cherian.in@gmail.com Co-founded and built Cucumbertown, the first food blogging platform. In June of 2015, Cookpad Japan, the largest food network acquired Cucumbertown - Conceived, built and sold a company over four years to a two billion market cap publicly traded food network. - Acquisition at high seven figure, multiple million deal. - Raised multiple rounds of funding from Valley’s best and venture funds - Very strong sense of hiring and culture building. - Presented to boards of 100 million+ valuation enterprises to expand business verticals. - Help and mentor companies in fund raising, product positioning, customer segmenting and hiring. Mentor at accelerators on product building. - Engineering, product management, manager at Zynga. - Been involved building iconic games at multiple million in revenue/day. Writings: Blog: http://gigpeppers.com/, https://medium.com/@cherianthomas Food blog: http://alittlebitofspice.com/

Experience

Lascade

Partner

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

Creating beautiful mobile apps.

Impending

Partner

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Remote

Osmo

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Byju's

2 roles

Senior Vice President

May 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Reach me at cherian@byjus.com

Vice President, International Business

Mar 2017 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Reach me at cherian@byjus.com

Cucumbertown (acquired by cookpad)

CEO and Co-Founder

Jul 2012 – Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Palo Alto, California

Cucumbertown started as a network for cooks and later on evolved into a food blogging platform. Today it's the largest niche blogging platform generating thousands of dollars in monthly income for food bloggers to millions of viewers.
Built from 0-N. Multiple million active/users per month. 3000+ bloggers, 100+ countries.
Distributed team across three continents. Ran a ten+ person team of engineers, design, product management, marketing and customer success.
Built culture and process around design, product-first, brainstorming, fast iterations and customer success.
Raised multiple rounds in venture capital from Valley and India.
Managed finance, product, hiring, operations etc.
Pioneered a new business model to generate income for food bloggers via ads + affiliates + premium subscriptions
Negotiated acquisition bids, carved out employee take-home, investor interests, etc. Executed the acquisition – bid, LOI, due diligence, redline negotiation, investor expectations, etc.
Business Person of the Week by Times of India and EconomicTimes. Cover story by The Hindu, featured by Vanitha and other vernacular press.
Investors:
2012 October - 500 Startups, Naval Ravikant, Sizhao Yang, Maneesh Arora, Helion Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Sunil Kanderi, Chandra Kalle, Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein, Richard Chen, Tabreez Verjee - https://angel.co/cucumbertown

Zynga

Many roles

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Early employee – Fishville, YoVille, PirateWars, MafiaWars, TreasureIsland, Scramble etc. Multiple million is revenue per day games. Engineering, product management, manager etc.
Authored and managed several IP engineering projects.
Ran a team for cloud cost optimizations
Zynga was the stepping-stone for my consumer startup life.

Startup under incubation

Co-Founder Project Orange

Aug 2009 – Jun 2010 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built the survey monkey for mobiles in a pre smart phone world via SMS. Targeted the enterprise and non-profit market. The project didn’t see much light but I learned a lot. We did a lot of breakthrough engineering work compressing long format surveys into short chat messages.

Supportsoft, inc

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2006 – Aug 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of the team that built software to automate remote login to consumer machines, run scripts, executables etc. to detect problems and reduced support cost. ISPs like Comcast required these agents to be installed on all machines.
CEO’s performance award for EmailAssist

Intern

Mar 2006 – Apr 2006 · 1 mo

Worked as an intern to develop a distributed downloading mechanism for Firefox browser using
Bit- torrent concept which was awarded the Redhat scholarship.
http://bitaacj.mozdev.org/