Deepak Krishnan — Co-Founder

I love to build products & companies at scale that transform people's life for the better! A researcher at heart constantly learning ( I read a lot! )about anything that piques my curiosity. Most curious about human behaviour, technology, business models, music, sustainability, wellness, biology, human-computer augmentation and generally anything that can make all of humankind thrive. Have built products across a wide range of industries - cloud computing, video messaging, social commerce, gaming, fintech, real estate, health tech, transportation, restaurant tech, hrtech, ecommerce, CRM, adtech. My first startup CirrOS was inspired by project SETI at home - a marketplace for computing powered by a network of XBoxes and PlayStations. My second startup XPresso was inspired by Skype and was a video only messaging app on Android. My third startup Cling was a online to offline social commerce platform focused on fashion. Joined Zynga to learn the art of Hyperscaling. Post Zynga, joined FreeCharge as Head of Product & Growth & helped scale 100x in 18 months. Post acquisition by SnapDeal, went to startup BeAnywhere to help employees remotely work from anywhere. Later on started a health tech venture Transform, to help people build good healthy habits for wellness. Consulted ZoomCar to help relaunch their subscription business ZAP. Consulted ChaiPoint to launch their restaurant SaaS business. Consulted Vahan - the LinkedIn for blue collared workers, to help build their products. Was building products at Myntra to hyperscale with a stellar team of product magicians. Currently on a break, writing content and experimenting with some product ideas.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a strong focus on E-commerce and Health Tech.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 12 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Product Management
Growth Strategies
Wellness
Business Development

Career Highlights

Scaled FreeCharge's growth by 100x in 18 months.
Founded multiple startups in diverse industries.
Expert in product management and growth strategies.

Work Experience

Myntra

Senior Director of Product Management - Head Of Growth, Social Commerce, SF Platforms (2 yrs 7 mos)

Transform

Founder (3 yrs 2 mos)

Amplify Advisory Services

Independent Consultant (4 yrs 8 mos)

BeAnywhere

Founder (11 mos)

Wealthy

Angel Investor (6 yrs 3 mos)

FreeCharge.in

AVP - Growth (1 yr 11 mos)

Zynga

Product Manager (2 mos)

Product Manager aka Mage Master (8 mos)

Product Manager aka Lord of War (4 mos)

Cling Technologies Pvt Ltd

Founder (1 yr)

Xprsso

Founder @ Xprsso (6 mos)

Cloud 9 Technologies - CirrOS

Founder (11 mos)

Cadbury plc.

intern (0 mo)

Education

PGDM at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

MBA at Esade

B.E at Anna University Chennai

Certified Personal Trainer at Lionel University

at Lionel University

Tiny Habits Coach at Learn Behavior Design with BJ Fogg, PhD

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at College of Engineering, Guindy

Deepak Krishnan

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled FreeCharge's growth by 100x in 18 months.
Founded multiple startups in diverse industries.
Expert in product management and growth strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a strong focus on E-commerce and Health Tech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGrowth StrategiesWellnessBusiness Development

Other Skills

Customer AcquisitionCustomer RetentionGamificationSocial CommerceMarTech StackCRMAttribution ModellingBehavior ShapingNutritionWellness CoachingCommunity BuildingFitness TrainingStrategic ConsultingProduct GrowthTeam Building

About

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Myntra

Senior Director of Product Management - Head Of Growth, Social Commerce, SF Platforms

Sep 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Building a suite of products with a stellar team that solve for Traffic & Distribution ( MarTech Stack, Affiliates, CRM, Attribution Modelling & Deep Integrations ) Customer Acquisition ( Assistance Suite , User Onboarding & Referrals ), Customer Retention ( Gamification , Social, Behaviour Shaping ), CorePlatforms (Apps,Web,Mweb , User Identity Accounts & Security & Core Tech Platforms) , Growing New Customer Cohorts, Growth Experiments ( CRO, MVPs) & New Growth Initiatives like Social & Live Commerce to BlitzScale Myntra's TOM, MAC & GMV.

Product ManagementGrowth StrategiesCustomer AcquisitionCustomer RetentionGamificationSocial Commerce

Transform

Founder

Jul 2017 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rituals to thrive every day.
After my personal health scare, I took time off to study the human body & wellness in an effort to heal myself. I started biohacking to get myself to become healthy, strong & mentally more resilient. I certified myself as nutritionist and fitness trainer through ISSA. Started coaching folks to develop better wellness habits and built a wellness community.

NutritionWellness CoachingCommunity BuildingWellness

Amplify advisory services

Independent Consultant

Jan 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Helping startups with :
1. Strategic Consulting For Product & Growth
2. Setting Up / Optimising Product & Growth Process & Culture
3. Hiring A-Teams For Product & Growth

Strategic ConsultingProduct GrowthTeam BuildingBusiness Development

Beanywhere

Founder

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

BeAnywhere was the AirBnB of WorkSpaces. Our vision was to allow any individual to work remotely from anywhere and provide the right "workspaces" to do the things they love. We had an eclectic network of shared office spaces and alternative workspaces like bars, homes to allow anyone to truly work anywhere.

Remote Work SolutionsWorkspace OptimizationProduct Management

Wealthy

Angel Investor

Oct 2015 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Freecharge.in

AVP - Growth

Dec 2013 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

100X Growth.
Set up the product led growth team @ FreeCharge. Led all things digital marketing, acquisition, retention, referral, ab testing, coupons infrastructure & habit commerce. Our exponential growth led to us being acquired for $450million by SnapDeal - India's biggest internet acquisition till date! Later as part of SD whilst leading growth was also leading offline payments products.

Digital MarketingGrowth HackingReferral ProgramsGrowth Strategies

Zynga

3 roles

Product Manager

Oct 2013 – Dec 2013 · 2 mos

Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap for Zynga.com

Product VisionStrategy DevelopmentProduct Management

Product Manager aka Mage Master

Jan 2013 – Sep 2013 · 8 mos

Working on Castleville,one of the top grossing games on Facebook and nominated for the best social game of 2012 by GDC. Additionally leading product development on zynga.com gaming network.
@ Castleville:Revenue Management , Game Design,Product Road-map and Strategy, Revenue Forecasts, Feature Prioritization,Bug Triage,Process Improvements , Mentoring new Product Managers. Designed the best revving feature which also garnered the most player love.
@Zynga.com : Revenue Management, User Acquisition, acquiring 1P and 3P games, Product Roadmap and Strategy.

Game DesignRevenue ManagementProduct Management

Product Manager aka Lord of War

Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 · 4 mos

War Monger,User and Revenue Management,Game Design, Product Management and whatever it takes @ Empires and Allies

User ManagementGame DesignProduct Management

Cling technologies pvt ltd

Founder

Jul 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr · Greater Chennai Area

Cling was an interest graph to connect everyone on the internet with other folks who shared similar tastes. It quickly became fashion heavy and led us to develop an O2O fashion commerce platform.

Social CommerceFashion E-commerceProduct Management

Xprsso

Founder @ Xprsso

Jan 2011 – Jul 2011 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Xprsso was a mobile video messenger - think walky talkies but with video.

Video MessagingMobile ApplicationsProduct Management

Cloud 9 technologies - cirros

Founder

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Inspired by project SETI @ Home, we wanted to build a crowdsourced computing marketplace - think distributed AWS on the back of rising connected computing devices : laptops, desktops, gaming devices. Our goal was to make your computing device work for you (make money) when you weren't using it.
We built CirrOS a middleware application based on BOINC - Berkerly Open Infrastructure For Network Computing to enable grid computing.

Crowdsourced ComputingDistributed SystemsProduct Management