Ayush Khanna — CEO
Product leader with a proven track record of founding and scaling AI-driven startups across Machine Learning, Advertisement Technology, Retail Marketing, and Revenue Operations. Expert in driving 0-to-1 innovation, achieving product-market fit, and growing multimillion-dollar ARR portfolios. Passionate about building high-agency product teams that deliver impactful business outcomes. Ayush is a Director of Product Management at Salesforce, building a frontier agent builder platform complete with developer tools, marketplace, runtime orchestration, and extensibility framework to sophisticated application developers. Ayush collaborates closely with top ISV Partners to manage developer relationship, validate product thesis, and accelerate go-to-market. Before Salesforce, Ayush led Product and Go-To-Market as the New Ventures Lead at super{set}, a startup studio that funds and builds transformation data+AI companies with over $150MM across 2 funds. He founded and built 4 B2B SaaS startups across industries such as DevSecOps, RevOps, Retail Media Network (AdTech), and Generative AI for Marketing. Ayush served as the Head of Product and Product Co-Founder for these 4 startups, leading all functions from business strategy, product roadmap, 0-to-1 PMF, MVP Development and Launch, to Growth and Go-To-Market. He also led outside investments, including sourcing, discernment, diligence, and using discernment to make extremely selective seed-stage investments. Ayush conducted 12+ sector scans to create marketectures, opportunity assessments, customer interviews, and business plans. Ayush launched the super{set} community efforts, hosting monthly and product launch events with 1000+ attendees, and 3 events that made it to Bay Area publications. He led Product and Business Development for multiple Portfolio Companies during their 0-1 journey and beyond. Before super{set}, Ayush was a Platform & Growth Product Manager on Salesforce's e-commerce product. He established and improved Trust that stakeholders help in the Salesforce technology and their capability to drive business growth on the platform. Ayush led Salesforce Healthcare Commerce product initiatives such as e-commerce for Payors and encryption at rest for HIPAA compliance. Ayush also advised healthcare companies as a Management Consultant at Deloitte and ZS on Digital Transformation, Data Analytics, and Sales Effectiveness. In his spare time, Ayush organizes competitive trivia and likes to play his acoustic guitar.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in AI-driven SaaS and Digital Transformation.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 13 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Isv Partnerships
- Cloud Solutions
- Healthcare Solutions
- Consulting
- Digital Transformation
- Sales Operations
- Business Intelligence
Career Highlights
- Proven track record in founding AI-driven startups.
- Expert in driving 0-to-1 innovation and product-market fit.
- Passionate about building high-agency product teams.
Work Experience
Salesforce
Director of Product Management (1 yr)
RevAmp
Head of Product (1 yr 7 mos)
Kapstan
Builder (2 yrs 7 mos)
super{set}
Head of Product | Product Co-Founder | New Ventures Lead (3 yrs 1 mo)
MarkovML
Head of Product (3 yrs 1 mo)
Salesforce
Product Manager (1 yr 9 mos)
Product Manager | Commerce Cloud (2 mos)
NYU Stern School of Business
MBA Candidate (1 yr 9 mos)
Deloitte Consulting
Consultant (1 yr)
ZS Associates
Associate Consultant (9 mos)
Business Technology Associate Consultant (1 yr 4 mos)
Business Technology Associate (2 yrs)
Ernst & Young
Intern (1 mo)
Stryker
Intern (4 mos)
Creative Computing Society, Thapar University
General Secretary and Finance Secretary (9 mos)
Hughes Systique
Intern (1 mo)
knowafest
National Associate Chief Coordinator (3 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA at NYU Stern School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
at The Shri Ram School
