Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Board Member - helping Hussein and Henry through the next chapter of product and revenue growth
• Super is one of the fastest growing companies in the US (ranked 45 in 2024 rankings), for 3 years in a row. (read more - https://www.ft.com/content/d4a20767-ea0f-4f8e-972d-84a513345784)

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Semi-Investor; Semi-Retired. Semi-World Traveller; Semi-YouTuber
• Advising, Board Roles and Fractional work with Startups.
• Dabbled with YouTube content creation (https://youtube.com/@therealsanchan)

Dec 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• I lead the consumer (aka Retail) business at Coinbase (with P&L ownership), reporting to the CPO.
• Responsible for product strategy and execution for the consumer (aka retail) business of Coinbase.
• Scaled multiple products (e.g staking, DEX trading, USDC, CB Pay, and more) to multiple-hundred-million-dollar revenue businesses
• Incubated and launched the developer products of Coinbase (eg CB Wallet and others)
• Lead global expansion of Coinbase footprint across Europe and Asia
• Responsible for 95% of Coinbase revenue and P&L [revenue: $7.83B (2021), $3.19B (2022)]
• Lead a team of ~150 PMs (with ~160 designers and ~1000 engineers) globally.
• Reported to Chief Product Officer (Surojit Chatterjee).

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• As the designated Head of Product at Airbnb, I worked with Brian Chesky to build and scale the PM function.
• Scale the PM org (from ~45 PMs to ~185 PMs - a 4x increase)
• Establish the culture, role and growth of PM discipline at Airbnb
• Drive recruiting, consistent performance management and growth of PM talent
• Accountable to Chesky for results. Had a blast building a strong PM team for Airbnb.

Apr 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Joined pre-IPO. At the time, Airbnb had a GM structure - I was the GM for one of the business units called Airbnb Plus.
• GM for Airbnb Plus. Grew it from a incubation product to a scaled business for Airbnb.
• Grew team to ~450 FTEs (across product, engineering, design and operations), and another 300 ops contractors globally in every market
• Responsible for P&L of Airbnb Plus business unit. Grew revenue from $0 to $XXXM.
• Reported to Greg Greeley, President of Airbnb (Greg reported to Brian Chesky)

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Investor in world changing startups - and a helper to visionary founders of tomorrow.
• Invested in over 100+ startups directly. LP in top VC funds across crypto, AI and consumer.
• Investing through - Nurture Venture Partners.

May 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• In addition to my other responsibilities, I founded the Instagram Shopping team.
• Back in 2016, pitched the idea of a native consumer shopping marketplace to Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. IG Shopping laid the foundation for "social commerce" as we know it today.
• Got it funded by Deb Liu. Scaled the team in NYC and Menlo Park.
• Scaled the product to millions of businesses selling their products on IG (including big guys like Macy's as well as smaller merchants).

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Back in 2015, Instagram was designed for regular users and not businesses.
• Lead the 0-1 product of launching IG business profiles, business messaging, business insights and more.
• Scaled the product to 25M monthly active businesses on Instagram (starting from 0) by the time I left
• Lead the PM team (~12 ICs and 2 Manager) in Menlo Park and NYC.

Aug 2014 – Mar 2015 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Week 1 on the job. Asked by the founder to pivot and help bootstrap the first Ads team Instagram (classic startup life). This is when IG made $0 in revenue :-)
• Lead all things related to Direct Response Ads on IG, with special focus on ads for SMBs.
• Built the PM team, product and scaled revenue to $450M.

Oct 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Lead PM team for mobile apps! Including building a global navigation and distribution system for Yahoo's different properties (on mobile and web)

Sep 2005 – Oct 2011 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• First "stable" job after college/failed startup.
• During this time, I worked on several different product teams spread across different countries. Lead product teams on Hotmail, SQL Server and other products.

Apr 2003 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• While still in engineering college - decided to start a company with a few college friends.
• Experimented with different ideas. Launched one of India’s very first comparison shopping sites and an email service that supported 25 Indian regional languages (not supported by major international email providers at the time)
• Raised initial seed money from friends and family to get the product launched. Acquired users, won reviews and added additional features (eg- transliteration). Couldn’t raise anymore money during the recession (post-2000-dot-com-era). Closed operations and found a steady job.
• Learnt a lot about running a start-up, listening to customers, managing money wisely, struggles in raising money during a down-turn and a bunch more – failed but had a ton of fun while trying to succeed.