I am a technologist and meritocrat with a true love for building products that add value to people's lives, particularly in the areas of wellness and habit formation. I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew, but I always figure out how to manage—and I attribute much of my success to this trait.
Currently moving between the Bay Area (for Stanford), NYC (for Flamme) and Europe (for love).
What I'm doing right now
- 💻 Founder at Agniverse, Founder at Flamme, Lead Mentor at Techstars & Oneday
- 🔨 Agniverse, Flamme AI, 16 Relationship Personalities, Research on Couples
- 📕 Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, The Daily Stoic
- 🏋🏽♂️ Half Marathon Training, 4x Strength Protocol
More to know about me
- 💻 Previously Growth Operator at Series C Scaleup, Partner at Wellness Startup
- 🗞️ Featured on CNBC, Techcrunch, Guardian, CNN & my mum’s wall
- 🎓 Studied MBA at IESE, Executive Education at Stanford GSB
- 📍 Lived in United States, Spain, Germany, China and India
- 🗣 Speak English, Hindi, Chinese (Mandarin) & Spanish
Cool stuff I've done
- 🦸🏽♂️ Built and exited a wellness startup in China, scaling it to 7 locations, ¥15mn ARR and 20,000+ members while managing 50 direct reports and learning Mandarin on the go.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Designed a date night planning app for couples called Sparks, growing it 900% WoW post-launch to 10k MAUs—all organic. Shut it down due to poor retention and an unfought lawsuit.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Facilitated the growth of a HaaS startup to over $100mn ARR and ensured everything held together while going from a $40mn Series B to a $200mn Series C. Sealed the deal with the COO over a calisthenics workout and Thai food.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Brought my “Silicon Valley” dream to life by convincing TechCrunch to let us pitch at Disrupt Startup Battlefield, and then convinced them to feature us, twice.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Boosted D30 retention from 1.2% to 4% to ~50% on Flamme by identifying our core game mechanic and building habit loops around it, resulting in this beautiful smile:
- 🦸🏽♂️ Organized the closing event for the inaugural NYC Tech Week in 2022. Organizing the opening event for TechCrunch Disrupt in 2024.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Spread "gyaan" at a lot of places - Techstars, Oneday, TechCrunch Disrupt, GDI New York, GDI Mumbai, App Growth Summit Europe, AIESEC, University of Essex, IESE Business School, UIBE China.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Built a community of over 500 fitness peeps during COVID and organized over 100 pro bono wellness initiatives—one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Went from an overweight kid to a professional bodybuilder, earning multiple medals in international competitions. PRs: Squat 180/395, Bench 140/310, Deadlift 200/440.
- 🦸🏽♂️ Won first prize in a nationwide chili pepper eating contest—taking on the Yunnan Shabu Shabu at 1mn Scoville Heat Units (had to have 4 of them in the final round).
Want to say hi?
- 👋🏽 Mail me / Gram me / LinkedIn me
That’ll be it for now, so long and thanks for all the fish! 🐟 🫶🏽
💭 "Sometimes to take two steps forward, you have to take one step back."
💭 "Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
💭 "Before the brightest day lies the darkest night."
💭 "I love Rotisserie Chicken."