Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• All things gtm, content & community building at Finrep, the AI copilot for SEC reporting teams.

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Bookmark is a dating app for readers. Swipe books, not looks!

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Cofounded a quiet reading community at Cubbon Park, Bengaluru that branched out into a worldwide reading movement, spanning over 50+ cities across 4 continents. Meet us near Cubbon statue every Saturday, 9am-2pm, with a mat and a book and read along with 500+ fellow readers and painters in silence.

Dec 2022 – Jul 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Led the largest content category, Emotions, and the growing category—Business Education and Jobs—at Sharechat, serving over 40M DAU and 300M users a month.

Sep 2016 – Jun 2025 · 8 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, Karnataka

• YourQuote is India's largest writing platform on mobile and the pioneer of digital monetisation of writing on mobile. YQ platform hosts over 200M posts from 3M creators and have enabled over 4,50,000 writers monetise their creative writing. Backed by Chiratae Ventures, Axilor and YCombinator, we raised a total of 1.125M dollars to date.
• A part of YCombinator W21 batch, YQ engages over 5M content creators create content daily, in 12 languages.

Mar 2016 – Jul 2016 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Whereabout is a local social network that enables you to discover & chat with nearby friends of friends. Now bypass friend requests, bypass phone numbers & safely interact with friends of friends! www.Whereabout.in/app
• Stalled because it failed to adopt a viral trajectory on its own.

Jun 2015 – Feb 2016 · 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Tripadvisor for real estate, where tenants can write reviews of landlords and flats they lived in. It's now shut, as we shifted to Whereabout.
• Selected for the FBstart incubation programme for the app, and ET Power of Ideas for the idea.
• Conceptualized, branded, built a team, led the product vision and bootstrapped for four months.
• Hustled solo for 2 months when my initial co-founders left, and ultimately, onboarded a new co-founder.
• Pivoted at the right time, coming up with a better idea that taps a bigger market and allows repeat usage.

Oct 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• I freelanced as a features writer for The Hindu, the reputed Indian daily. Over the years, I also started freelancing for The Caravan, Tehelka, Forbes, DNA among others.

Aug 2012 – Feb 2013 · 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Published my fourth book - 'Because Shit Happened': What NOT to do at a start-up with Random House India. The book opened up to a favourable response, and sold over 5 thousand copies in the first month. It can be browsed here: www.bit.ly/FourthBook

May 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr · www.milaap.org/harsh

• Took a gap year after the start-up failure to travel across India on a shoestring budget.
• Freelanced for the Hindu Sunday Magazine. Wrote eight stories, including the popular cover story "Pangs of Wasseypur" for them.
• Raised funds (INR 96000) for the rural artisans whom I have met during my travel across India.
• Secured sponsorship from ixigo.com for a year long travel.
• Spoke at TEDxMasterCanteenSquare, Hindustan University, BIMTECH Greater Noida, IIIT Gwalior, MNIT Jaipur on unconventional career choices after college.

May 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi

• We marketed common people's one-liners to merchandising firms, and crowdsourced punchlines for corporates. Our vision was to become Behance for content. After receiving a good traction and many recognition, I exited it in 2012 owing to some personal reasons. The venture died thereafter.
• It was registered as Witcraft Marketing Pvt. Ltd. and popular as thewittyshit.com

Oct 2009 – Nov 2009 · 1 mo

• Contributed 10 stories to the Chicken Soup series.

Aug 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Authored the bestselling Kanav-Tanya trilogy with sales of over 80000 copies.

May 2009 – Jun 2009 · 1 mo

• Published a research paper in Computer Physics Communication.