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Pranav Kashyap

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded Central, simplifying back-office operations for startups.
  • Saved millions in fines for hundreds of startups.
  • Grew A Curious Place to 30K members in just 2 weeks.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS founder with deep expertise in startup operations and compliance.

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StrategyFinancial ModelingBusiness StrategyVenture CapitalDue DiligenceManagement ConsultingValuationProduct MarketingCorporate FinanceCompetitive AnalysisInvestmentsEntrepreneurshipInvestment BankingStart-upsBusiness Analysis

About

Try Central - centralhq.com YC deal - https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2463 At Stripe I helped founders not worry about how to get paid, I built Central to help founders not have to worry about their back-office. I've saved millions in fines for hundreds of startups and helped them stay compliant. Central is the easiest way to run your company. Central's mission is to liberate founders to create value. We want you to go find Product-Market fit and be free from the shackles of ongoing ops work. Today, when you sign up with Central you can: - Hire and pay employees in all 50 states plus contractors in 200+ countries - Get Health, Disability, and Life insurance and 401(k) accounts - Get other business insurance like workers compensation, general liability etc. - Automate ongoing mail monitoring Finally, you can talk to Central Bot directly in Slack and get things done 24/7. Think of Central Bot as your first HR/Finance/Ops hire. You can hire, pay, search company and employee info, send and receive documents, ask questions, and much more just by typing. ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ: centralhq.com โญ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฌ๐—– ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ? Here's our deal & reviews - https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2463

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Central (yc s24)

Co-Founder

Mar 2023 โ€“ Present ยท 3 yrs 2 mos ยท San Francisco Bay Area

Stripe

Product Manager

Apr 2021 โ€“ Apr 2024 ยท 3 yrs ยท San Francisco Bay Area

Shippie

Advisor

Jan 2021 โ€“ Present ยท 5 yrs 4 mos

A curious place

Co-Founder

Jan 2021 โ€“ Jan 2022 ยท 1 yr ยท San Francisco, California, United States

  • Co-founded A Curious Place and grew it to 30K members in 2 weeks.

Mixpanel

Group Product Manager & Head of Pricing

Nov 2018 โ€“ Apr 2021 ยท 2 yrs 5 mos ยท San Francisco Bay Area

  • Owned $15M P&L across messaging and online businesses. Accelerated growth by 40 pp reversing a contraction in the online business
  • Managed team of 2 PMs across growth, pricing, and data/identity systems
  • Accelerated adoption and retention through several new features and experiments

Mckinsey global institute

Co-Author: Poorer than their parents? A new perspective on income inequality

Mar 2016 โ€“ Jul 2016 ยท 4 mos

  • Featured #1 in the World Economic Forum's top 10 economics stories of the week. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/10-must-read-economics-stories-of-the-week-05August/

Mckinsey & company

Senior Engagement Manager

Jun 2014 โ€“ Oct 2018 ยท 4 yrs 4 mos ยท San Francisco Bay Area

  • Working on product and GTM strategy for high-tech clients on a range of topics including enterprise hardware, enterprise software, digital advertising and consumer technology
  • Certified Analytics Translator, leading McKinsey's Software Analytics practice, using machine learning to drive improved outcomes (e.g., lower churn, higher conversion) for Software clients.

Microsoft

Product Marketing Manager

Jun 2013 โ€“ Aug 2013 ยท 2 mos ยท Redmond, WA

  • Office 365 Product Marketing team member and owned the following projects
  • 1) Redesigned channel strategy for SMBs (SKU mapping, pricing, customer segmentation, churn reduction)
  • 2) Created inorganic growth strategy including identifying targets
  • 3) Managed global product migration of fraudulent education SKU customers

Symantec

Product Manager

Apr 2013 โ€“ Jun 2013 ยท 2 mos ยท Mountainview, CA

  • Worked in the trust services business as a product management intern to
  • 1) Optimize our channel strategy
  • 2) Create a roadmap for future products in the Enterprise software space
  • 3) Analyze the performance of a new product, AdVantage, targeted at malvertisement protection

Sequoia capital

Investment Analyst

Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2012 ยท 1 yr

  • Responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, conducting due diligence and managing portfolio companies.
  • Conducted thematic research on sectors including video content management, gaming and dermatology.
  • Created cloud strategy for data center automation company.

Mckinsey & company

Business Analyst

Jul 2009 โ€“ Jun 2011 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • As a consultant I have worked with logistics, steel, pharmaceuticals, public health and the power industries in public sector, private sector, non-profits and family owned businesses to address a variety of problems ranging from operations to strategy and organization.

Ubs investment bank

Summer intern

May 2008 โ€“ Jul 2008 ยท 2 mos ยท Hong Kong

  • Structured products division - Sales and Trading of structured products.
  • Priced derivatives worth over $130m
  • Created models to improve pricing efficiency by 4x and to create new structured products on demand

Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique

Research Intern

May 2007 โ€“ Dec 2007 ยท 7 mos ยท Rocquencourt, France

  • Implementing the HyperLogLog algorithm for counting unique items in a large data stream
  • Responsible for contributing experimental results to associated research paper.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology โ€” Computer Science and Engineering

The Wharton School

Master of Business Administration (MBA) โ€” Entrepreneurship and Finance

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