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Founder @GrowthX_Club. A mediocre designer & coder so turned into a PM. Then went on to build product growth teams @Razorpay & @Merkle.
Bengaluru, India
Joined November 2010
We're hiring across.-Tech.-Design.-Learning.-PM.-Finance.-HR.-Business.-Talent.-Community. Don’t care if you’ve worked for the biggest brands or have a degree from the fanciest university. Want people who can bring their A-game to the table & a passion for making a difference.
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In two, one, two! . The secret's out of the bag!. We’ve officially raised the largest community-led seed fund round, ever. 65% of it came from you, our GrowthXers! 💙. Thank you to the 212 believers, that have sowed the seeds for us to grow more!. #GrowthXGrowsby212
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call me crazy but my 31st plans are to sleep by 10pm. on the 1st of jan, go for a nice 10k run, followed by downing a masala dosa & filter coffee, relax and read a book in cubbon, and finally sip myself a hot chocolate that puts me to sleep.
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Damn, this is big news 🚨. Sequoia, the VC behind Apple, Google, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Zoom, splits into three. 1 — Sequoia Capital.2 — HongShan.3 — Peak XV Partners. → US & EU keep the Sequoia brand, China becomes HongShan and India/Southeast Asia becomes Peak XV Partners.
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Hey @cultfitOfficial what's up with the insane crowding at gyms? It got so crowded that the gym has become a sauna despite AC. There's no place to stand, forget moving or doing anything. So many people literally just entered and left because it was like a mosh-pit here.
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16-24.The social pressure to be cool. 25-50.The social pressure to be successful. Same shit, different day.
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I've tried boxing, MMA, crossfit, powerlifting. Nothing compares to cycling long distances for hrs on end, lost in the rhythm of pedaling & the beauty of the passing landscape. The solitude also allows you to self reflect, and did I mention the crazy endorphin rush?.
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Airbnb just got rid of its "Product Management" function. Wait, really?! 😮. Yes! But, why?
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Heyy @RazorpayX folks,. Request––. When an employee leaves, their access from the tool goes away since the login email is a work email. Please allow them to access their dashboard via a personal email. They need to access it to look at their payslips and other imp docs.
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Me:."We need a creative post for GrowthX hiring.". Designer:."Just do a text only post.". Me:."We want a creative in the post.". Designer:."Here you go 👇🏻"
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The cafe was full so we shared a table for lunch and they were kind enough to sponsor our desserts. Guddu bhaiya & bholi punjaban are gems 💎
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Folks who keep their video on during calls - Thank you for being normal.
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Startups are powered by high energy folks. Anyone that reduces that energy is more expensive than money.
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People spend a lot of time figuring out CRED's business model rather than fixing their own companies' problems.
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Looking for 3 key folks to join my team:. First PM.First Designer (Product).First People/HR. Ideal fit would be operators who LOVE their craft, experience of 3 to 7 years, & most importantly are passionate about impacting how professionals scale their careers. RT for karma 🙏🏻.
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I went from an engineering drop out to .👇🏻.the first growth hire across startups to.👇🏻.working in San Francisco to India to.👇🏻.building the growth team at Razorpay to.👇🏻.starting my startup i.e. GrowthX to.👇🏻.raising the largest ever seed round to.👇🏻.building a profitable company
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From being obese → Cycling 3,000 kms.Dropout engineer → Growth leader.Door to door sales → Founder.This is my journey ✨. Every story has a starting, core and ending. I’d say my climax started in the beginning. I was at a very low point in my life, I was spending time with the
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Over hiring. Hasty decisions. Burning money. Over 20,000 Indians have lost their jobs in 6 months. While I really want to point fingers start the blame game, this is not the time. We will only survive this storm if we show up and help each other. Here's what we're doing 👇🏻
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Just over a year ago I left Razorpay to go all in with @GrowthX_Club. We're building for the top 1% professionals in India. Couldn't have asked for a better team to do build GX. Insanely proud of theses 22 folks 💙. P.S. We're 100% remote, so met face-to-face for the 1st time!
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Finally! Have been waiting for the time you can share addresses on Swiggy . Great stuff @swiggy_in @whereisashwin
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Hot take– AI hype bubble to burst in 6-12 months, things to normalise and people start using it like a feature and not pivot the company.
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Great articulation is underrated. It's like just like any skill, for some it's natural, others hone it with practice. I really wish more people prioritised building this skill.
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Bangalore = Hub of Startups is a myth 🥺.We shattered that perception last Sunday ⚡️. We conducted a Founder's Masterclass in Delhi 👇🏻.Over 200 handpicked founders from companies like Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters, Kaagaz (YC W'22), sploot, 1K, AiSensy were part of our session on
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unpopular advice to job seekers–– please don't have open to work on your linkedin. it probably does the opposite to what you want it to do.
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Second order effects of CRED garage having amazing design is people social signaling about the cars they have. Which is a a natural behaviour tbh (Cars are about social games and not utility games.). P.S. a big fan of CRED garage, primarily because it's a positioning & design.
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We need more VCs who've been founders before. VCs with founder backgrounds bring firsthand experience of pivoting, product development, customer acquisition, team building, and more. I wonder why we don't see more of them?.
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RazorpayX knows how to do things in style 😎. The Corporate Credit Card experience I've had with them is 10X better than the one I've had with existing large banks. The onboarding experience is outstanding! ❤️
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The way fear is increasing for folks applying for startups, should the careers page now have runway in years as a metric? 😂😅.
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GrowthX program is a qualification requirement for an 800+ employee size startup 🙏🙈
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Design, marketing, sales, product, tech are all the cool functions in a company. Yes, they 100% add value. But the importance of well functioning HR, finance, legal, and compliance functions is so vastly underrated. 🙏🏻.
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Catching up with the OG designer at @Razorpay . To more such conversations @ChettyArun 💙. P.S. The Yin & Yang with his long hair & mine is 😂
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Happy birthday to the biggest overachiever I know– my Dad. You were born into tough times. For 18 years, you tried 8 different businesses, failing each time but never giving up. Then you spent the next 10 years paying off all those debts. Still, you made sure our lives felt
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Hot take: GPT is killing the quality of docs that are created internally.
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Things that @Razorpay keeps on doing for its employees is just heartwarming. Thank you @harshilmathur @shashank_kr . One of the 100s of things Razorpay keeps doing for us -
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The VC world needs more people like Rahul. His curiosity, his ability to process an absurd amount of information, his sharp second-order thinking, and the empathy he shows founders are just a few traits that make him stand out. Rahul’s one of a kind, and it’s great to see him.
In October 2020, out of blue, Romit from Lightspeed India Partners reached out to me to say: “heard you are building a company, I’d love to chat”
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a lot of VCs/founders confuse being assholes with being contrarian.
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Demo Day is a phenomenon. Hundreds of people streaming across Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi & Chennai. This is on a Sunday (the day of an IPL match)
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Across the hundreds of founder registrations for our revenue growth masterclass, women founders are legit a small fraction :(. We want to change this ratio. I'd like to offer 50 passes to women founders. Just drop a comment here and I'll DM you the pass. Twitter- please do your.
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Rakshabandhan at 14,000ft— on the shores of the majestic Pangong Tso.
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GrowthX community is built different. Here's the folks from GX20 sponsoring a night for GX19
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9 years since my time in SF. Crazy how this city changed the trajectory of my professional life. Grateful.
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Can't go back to the old lounge after using this one. And what a pleasant surprise to see that @RazorpayX is accepted here 🤌. One of the many things that I love about RazorpayX.
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focus on b2b. focus on larger clients. focus on brand/ad monetisation. this will be the theme of 2024.
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Nikhil's podcast with the PM is a clear sign of the death of traditional media.
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The new @Razorpay checkout is just 10/10. The saved address ui, the offers, the entire experience is just 10x better than before, and that's saying something. Phenomenal products coming out of the payments team bossman @khilanharia
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Figma just acquired Dynaboard. Dynaboard is an AI supercharged low-code IDE. 2 core observations.– Figma is going all in on Devs.– Adobe's $1B termination fee is fueling this. First, the focus on Devs. When I say "Figma," first thing that comes to mind is design." However, Figma.
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"What's your core learning as a founder?". Chaitanya (Founder @ Slay Coffee) asked me this. I reflected for a second, and the gut answer was "It's freaking lonely journey". While there are so many learnings across hiring, product, team, culture, the one that surprised me the
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What a crazy day. The GrowthX store sold out on the day of the launch. In nine freakin' hours, to be precise :'). Thank you 🙏
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how gen z, y, and x shop, spend, & think. this study by phonepe & dentsu dives into 3 generations. there's a LOT in here. i am just going to give you things that stood out to me, don't expect detailed whys. this is me with my morning coffee and all the things that i found
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Attended @thetalentdeck mixer last night. Hands down the best mixer I've attended in a LONG time. Sufi, Aashish & co are truly building something so special, reminds me of early days at GrowthX. In picture:.The community trifecta✨.GrowthX + The Product Folks + The Talent Deck
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Good music. Good coffee. Good workout. Good company. What else do you need on a Sunday?.
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We started the Lonavala party at 4pm, and this is the energy that I felt after 12 hours at 4am with the @GrowthX_Club fam.
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Founders in 2023 want revenue growth ⚡️.But, most lack a structure to growth 😳.Seed → Series B Founders, read this ⬇️. We are helping 200+ founders refine their 1 year revenue growth strategy (sustainably). Request: Twitter fam, please RT to let your founder friends know.
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RazorpayX just gave us an incredible surprise :). @GrowthX_Club now owns a unique first-edition #NFTbyRazorpayX. This is amazing folks 🙏.@shashankmehta05 @Razorpay @shashank_kr @izotope86. The future of banking experience has truly arrived ♥️
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At GrowthX team offsite 1/4 🚀. Context-.We are a 100% remote company @GrowthX_Club. Since our inception we've done not 1 or 2 but 4 team offsites every year. These are 7 days long.
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A thread of hilarious reactions to us getting sold out in 12 mins yesterday 😂.
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🚨🚨🚨 .I won't be able to do the 18k ft ride. All roads for Khardungla (18k ft road) have been shut due to bad weather for the last 3 days 🥲. Tbh flights, bus and most travel options have been suspended due to the weather as well. I really hope everyone in this region is
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GrowthX Team doing our traditional group dinners. P.S. We got a cake sent by a GrowthX member who got their dream role yesterday.
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My career path has been anything but conventional. Over the last 10 years, I have been in 7 different roles. 2011:.Traditional marketer in a pharma company. 2013:.Freelancer for building websites & apps. 2015:.Full funnel marketer doing inbound, SEO, performance, referral,
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Always go with your gut. Your gut is trained on every interaction you've ever had. All of it- Good, bad, ugly. And all that complex context is combined with your professional and personal aspirations. Your gut is probably the best AI you have.
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A moment to hold. A legacy to pass. A collection to cherish. All yours.
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2020 → Job offers every month.2021 → Job offers every week.2023 →. Market corrections are not just occurring in startup valuation, but also in hiring. The market has changed from a employees market in 2021 to an employers market in 2023. This is especially true for mid senior
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