Gaurav Agarwal

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a team to grow ClickUp 17x in two years.
  • Built and scaled a SaaS brand to nine-figure revenues.
  • Advised over 25 disruptive companies in various sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce growth leader with extensive advisory experience.

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Experience

15 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Clickup

2 roles

Chief Operating Officer

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Chief Growth Officer

Feb 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • My team is on a mission to build a $100bnn SaaS company.
  • Own Product Led Growth motion: Self Serve Revenue and Sales pipeline.
  • Responsible for Growth Marketing, Growth Product, Content & Creative, Demand Gen and Data.
  • We have grown 17x in the last 2 years and have millions of teams using our software.
  • If you want to do the best work of your life, ping me 🚀

Achieve

SVP Growth

Apr 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Owned the front end of the business - customer acquisition and engagement.
  • Responsible for revenue and digital turnaround.
  • Delivered $XXXmn in contribution margin, managed 9 figure budgets/yr across three business lines
  • Turned around the growth org. Established full funnel growth teams & squads across marketing, product, creative, data and engineering
  • Pivoted America's largest debt consolidation company from point solutions to a loan first multi product company. Created platform for mass market penetration, significantly cut front end acquisition costs
  • Build a high functioning team, hands on, accountable, driven to push the boundary. 0% regrettable attrition

Distro angels

Advisor & Angel Investor

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

  • Advisor and investor in 25+ companies disrupting E-commerce, Fin-tech, Hardware and SaaS
  • Advising disruptive companies:
  • Cradlewise: AI driven sleep fitness for babies and parents. Babies sleep 2+hrs more/night.
  • Lighyear: Changing the way businesses buy telecom services through software
  • Uniform Teeth: Delivering tech-enabled modern orthodontics(™)
  • Gradient: Taking on climate change!
  • Hero Health: Making medication management easy
  • Investing with fellow growth leaders:
  • CPG & Ecommerce : Immi, Italic, Eterneva, Aestuary, MadRabbit, Olipop, Pair Eyewair, FreightPay
  • Fintech: CreditStacks, Doorvest, Plannery
  • SaaS: Lightyear, Paloma, SalesKen, Enquire Labs, SourceMedium, Air.inc, Swirl
  • Hardware: Oura ring, Gradient

Molekule

3 roles

SVP of Growth

Mar 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Built Molekule's business soup to nuts. Launched an iconic brand, scaled to 9 figure revenues in <2.5yrs of sales
  • Built and lead teams across -
  • Growth marketing, Retail Expansion (BestBuy, Amazon)
  • Subscription and e-commerce product
  • CRM, Mar-tech & Data science
  • Brand and creative
  • International expansion
  • Key achievements:
  • DTC/Ecommerce- Managed 8 figure spends, profitably scaled to one of the top grossing shopify stores
  • Subscription - Delivered upper double digit attach rates, resulting into strong recurring revenue
  • Led expansion into retail (BestBuy, Amazon) and International (Korea)
  • Deployed cutting edge mar-tech & analytics stack (Segment, Tealium, Iterable, GA, Amplitude)
  • Directly involved in Series A and Series B raises from pitches to due dilligence

Interim CMO

Promoted

Feb 2019Nov 2019 · 9 mos

  • Along with my responsibilities in growth, built out the brand & creative function.
  • Led the creation of a brand manifesto, design guide & own an integrated marketing calendar
  • Built an in-house creative team, championed agile, reduced CAC, saved $$$ks in agency fees

VP Growth (Founding member)

Nov 2015Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Launched the product and grew revenue. Built the following functions:
  • Performance marketing & Analytics
  • Product growth & engineering (e-commerce, subscription)
  • Brand and content

Yunus social business

Mentor

Jun 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Alchemist accelerator

Mentor

Jan 2016Jan 2022 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Lensbricks

Head of Customer Development

Aug 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Founding team member at a deep tech AI company from MIT media lab
  • Worked with the founders to raise a seed extension of $1mn
  • Rapid prototyping to test product market fit across consumer, retail, hospitality and healthcare
  • Found many use cases, more R&D needed, a bit too early!

Vivify - it

Co-Founder

Jun 2012Mar 2013 · 9 mos · Singapore

  • SAAS application for tour guide creation. Learned about the perils of "feature creep".

Barclays investment bank

Assistant Vice President

Jul 2011Jul 2014 · 3 yrs · Tokyo, Japan

  • Promoted to AVP in just 2 years
  • Worked with Credit & EM Traders on Risk-PnL/Quant functions across SGP, LDN, TKY

Medibeep

Co-Founder

Mar 2011Mar 2012 · 1 yr

  • India's first SMS based vaccination reminder service, over 60,000+ subscribers

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Industrial Engineering

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