Vinay Mimani

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led product teams at a decacorn with 40M weekly orders.
Founded a music discovery startup featured on Product Hunt.
Developed an automated customer segmentation platform for 50M users.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a focus on Fintech and Music Tech.

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About

In my past life, I've: 1. Headed Product teams at a Decacorn with scale of 40M weekly orders 2. Burnt my own money running a Music Discovery Startup (Top 3 products on Product Hunt in 2015) 3. Taught kids topics like P&L, Game Theory using Multiplayer games 4. Graduated as an Engineer not knowing why I did that -- My role models are from 3 different eras -- Archimedes, Copernicus & Josh Waitzkin. Archimedes because apparently he had great shower thought moments. Imagine someone saying in 2023 that Sun is not the center of the Solar System. The eye roll that you just did, that's what Copernicus had to face, except that he was right. And he survived that derision. Josh is a someone who went from being a World champion in Chess to one in Martial Arts (Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Tai Chi). It's hard to master one thing. He mastered 3. The common thread is that I value: 1. Epiphanies, 2. Intensity, 3. Curiosity 4. And also numbered lists. If you read till here, you either had a lot of time or we connected. In either case, good to be read by you.

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Realfast

Head of GTM

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Validity

Founder

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

20% reps earn 80% revenue. And no one knows why.
Validity is built to solve this exact pain point - So that you as Sales Leaders can drive accountability across your team & win more deals.
We're lucky to be already creating impact for orgs like inFeedo, PhysicsWallah.
If you resonate with the problem, we're able to demo our value in <2 weeks. Do reach out!

Sabbatical

Learning Break

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr

Won a hackathon organised by Govt. of India, built an automated Claims Management product with friends for Insurance in Health Sector
Wrote a couple of articles on topics that fascinate me - Maths, Finance & Writing. Read here -
https://liminal.substack.com/
Relished 5 books by Ursula K. Le Guin. She was ahead of her times. We are still behind.

Gojek

2 roles

Head of Product

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

It starts with a simple want. You either want to go somewhere, or you want something from somewhere.
Imagine 40 Million+ such wants every week. My team was responsible for fulfilling these wants while aiming for profitability.
As Head of Product at Marketplace, I scaled the Product Team & was lucky to lead a team who built levers to optimise
Profitability of Gojek's business &
Quality of Experience for our Users & Driver Partners.

Product Manager

Jan 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Being one of the fastest growing digital wallets in SE Asia, we were constantly catching up with growth. I led teams across acquisition, loyalty, rewards and user safety.
My biggest learning in this role was when my team built an automated customer segmentation platform, which became the first User Profile store for all of the 50M+ users at Gojek.

Trbble

Founder

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

trbble got featured as the "Top 3 products of the day" on ProductHunt, back in 2016. Also got featured on Forbes, Lifehacker, etc.
Being an amateur musician, I've always remembered songs through their best parts. This led to genesis of trbble - Music discovery of songs through their best parts.
My co-founders & I built an in-house algo to identify the most engaging parts of a song, and we built music discovery on top of it
Bootstrapped the business, made many mistakes doing all this, ran out of money in ~2 years

Zipdial (acquired by twitter inc.)

Product Manager

Dec 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Growth Lead @Twitter for IPL 2014 partnership across BCCI & other brands
- Product Owner of the Analytics Dashboard used by customers like HUL, Nestle, Gillette, Times Internet Limited to track, monitor campaign performance

Minglebox.com

Senior Product Associate

Feb 2013 – Dec 2013 · 10 mos · Bangalore

First job as a PM. Didn't add much value

Self employed

GMAT Instructor

Jul 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

-Taught for GMAT/GRE/SAT(Quantitative) at Princeton Review, Ivy Aspire and TIME
Took a hiatus of six month's to focus on my Music Portfolio, got admitted at NYU Steinhardt & Trinity Dublin.