Shankar Krishnamurthy — CEO
I am a Product Leader with 10 years of expertise leading teams to build and scale revenue, retention and growth for products across social networking, e-commerce marketplace and healthtech startups (0-1-10). I have been a part of Product Leadership at Betterhalf.ai (matchmaking, YC W21, Series A) for 4.5 years & built the mainstream matchmaking product from scratch and scaled it to $2M ARR (30X growth), and an industry best D-30 Retention of 30% (4X Growth). Also, built and scaled an Astrology product/category from scratch, to a revenue of INR 15 L/month in a span of 6 months. Built and scaled a personal loan vertical with Niro Money integration, disbursing Rs. 2 Cr+ worth of loans in 8 months. Prior to this, I have built products which cater to the health management of people dealing with chronic illnesses like Diabetes etc. at Lifecare Health (Product Leadership, Series B Nexus & Elevation Capital, 2.5 years), leading to a 10X growth in medicine order and lab test bookings, doctor consultations by 7X, while building the end-to-end order fulfillment experience. I spent 2.5 years building logistics, fulfillment and merchant experience products in the e-commerce managed marketplace at Shopclues (Tiger Global & Nexus, Series-E). At Betterhalf.ai, I built the entire product and design team from scratch consisting of senior product managers and senior product designers, and also directly hired diverse engineering, retention, growth and engagement teams. At both Betterhalf.ai and Lifecare Health, I worked directly with both the founders and was pivotal in the Y Combinator selection and Pre-Series A and Series A (Betterhalf.ai) and Series B (Lifecare Health) funding rounds. I also provide Consulting, Advisory, to early-stage startup founders on their business/product idea, and mentoring to folks on Topmate focusing on Transition to PM, Resume Review, PM Career queries, Early stage product (0-1) building etc (Rated Top 5%). I am based out of HSR Layout, Bengaluru and up for a coffee anytime :) Open to catch up, and build great things together! Give me a shout at: +917042062575 / shankarworld@gmail.com.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader with expertise in B2C SaaS and healthtech industries.
Location: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Experience: 16 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
Career Highlights
- Built matchmaking product achieving 30X growth.
- Led product teams to $2M ARR in healthtech.
- Consulted startups on product strategy and growth.
Work Experience
MoXey
Head of Product (1 yr 2 mos)
TruKKer
Product Management (1 yr 2 mos)
Strategic Product Consulting, Mentoring
Product Consultant and Mentor (6 mos)
Betterhalf
Associate Director, Product Management (1 yr 2 mos)
Group Product Manager (1 yr 4 mos)
Senior Product Manager (1 yr 9 mos)
Tata Health
Product Manager (7 mos)
LifCare
Senior Product Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)
ShopClues
Product Manager (2 yrs 6 mos)
Oracle
Management Consultant (MBA Project) (1 mo)
Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business UCD
Full-Time MBA Candidate (11 mos)
Generix Lifesciences Pvt Ltd.
Supply Chain Executive (2 yrs)
Market Research Analyst (8 mos)
Aricent
Software Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University College Dublin
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University