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A founder-at-heart with operating & investing experience in US & India, I'm currently based in sunny San Francisco. Just like SF, I bring data, humor, and a passion for the future to everything I do.
I measure my life by the positive impact I make, the number of lives I touch. I care about building a wider table and a kinder world. My core values are resilience, courage, loyalty, truth and service.
Professionally, I get intrinsic joy from building products and teams that reimagine the future. A data scientist turned product manager with an MBA, I add most value at the intersection of GTM, product, tech/data & influence without authority. A part-time angel investor, I foster a women in AI community, Sapienne.ai.
Outside of work, I enjoy sports, humor, puzzles & food. I write on my blog, substack and X. My talks are here. Codes here. Mentoring profile.
From AI commercialization to poetry, I write about life’s questions (big & small) with humor and wonder!
Growing up in Calcutta, India, a city I describe as ‘frozen in time’, I noticed how tech adoption changed livelihoods and mindsets. I was motivated to drive that change. An early example is from a Google X design sprint when I designed an air filter for street lamps to reduce pollution. Since then, I'm bitten by the bug to reimagine how users interact with the world.
Inspired by 2 of my sisters - a data scientist (Dhwani Parekh) & an ethnographic researcher ( Nehal Shah), I started learning time-series modeling in R & implementing Joel Marsh's UX crash course. At the intersection of data & UX, I discovered my natural affinity towards product management during an undergrad internship.
In this talk for Stanford d school, I share my personal experience of how a failed summer internship set me up for career success.
Have you tried booking an uber/lyft and seen pickup zones in commercial/high demand locations? That was the first product I built - a location intelligence platform at Ola and scaled it to 3M+ users.
As a Product Manager, I've been fortunate to launch 0to1 and 1ton products in AIML, B2C, and B2B data/AI SaaS across startups (Ola, Niantic) and bigtech (Apple, Amazon, Samsung Research). Further, my MBA education, chief of staff and 1x failed founding experience honed my strategy and go-to-market muscle.
In this talk for Product School, I share how Product Management differs in startups and bigtech.
I invest in my pursuit of a wider table and I foster communities for a kinder world.
I built a view of the other side of the table as an investor at Stellaris Venture Partners. My operator experience enabled me to quickly add value to portfolios and scope the consumer & AI landscape. I angel invest through Sapienne.ai, an angel investing syndicate for women in AI to drive more equity in cap-tables.
I care about building communities that foster open dialogue and a sense of belonging. I try to pay-it-forward through mentoring. In this tell-all talk with Jean Lee, I share my journey from data science to product and building a career in AI.
Product Manager, Post-booking App Experience
Scaled Ola from series D to series I - my right place right time experience - learnt product, metrics, execution
Built Ola hotspots; location intelligence platform (prototype); Ola London Launch; Foodpanda acquisition & merger; car rentals
Product Manager II, Promotions
Learnt negotiations, writing, strategy, PM best practices
$1.2B ARR charter; deal recommendations quality on today's deals page & coupons adoption; seller growth
AIML Product Manager, Visual Intelligence & Search [2022]
Learnt to surprise & delight; Did my Life's best work, got an email from Tim Cook
0to 1 Augmented Reality Experiences from camera and search
Chief of Staff [2023]
Learnt to think at a company level - org design, culture, strategy, growth, pivoting; Was exciting to be at a conversational AI unicorn when ChatGPT blew up in Feb'23.
Drove FY24 OKRs; LLM use-cases in customer service; mergers & acquisitions
Investor [2021]
Learnt to think at a market level - dealmaking, identifying whitespaces, founder challenges, future trends
Closed $10M series A in a creator monetization statup, Rigi with Sequoia & Accel
Calcutta, India
Studying in an all-girls school for 12 years has shaped the core of who I am. MHS is a special place, where I learnt to put sisterhood over everything else; where I developed my values, interests, ambition and courage to be a voice in the room when the room needs a voice. My tribute to MHS here.
► Majored in computer science - C, C++, HTML, JAVA (4 years) etc
► Communities: Brown Belt - Karate; MHS football team, 100m/relays; dance
Electrical & Electronics Engg,
Bangalore, India
Best outgoing student, EEE'16
► Communities: Entrepreneurship cell; Google Student Ambassador; Grace Hopper Conference'17 Google Scholar (Orlando, USA)
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
Evanston/Chicago, Illinois
Israel Crown Innovation Fellow (2.5% selection)
► Entrepreneurship: Co-founder, C3 - a creator monetization startup (2022-2023)
► Communities: Director for DEI, Kellogg Student Administration