I am incredibly lucky to work with people who love and take of me.
Cucumbertown went through all the troughs and sorrows, figured out product market fit and scaled with efficiency in a niche carving out the market.
@Cucumbertown (Acqd Cookpad JP) CEO; Early @Zynga (Engineer, PM, Producer etc.); RedHat scholarship recipient; @Support.com
- Conceived, built and sold a company over four years to a two billion market cap publicly traded food network.
- Acquisition at high seven figure, multiple million deal.
- Built from 0-N. Multiple million active/users per month. 3000+ bloggers, 100+ countries.
- Built culture and process around design, product-first, brainstorming, fast iterations and customer success.
- Pioneered a new business model to generate income for food bloggers via ads + affiliates + premium subscriptions
- Negotiated acquisition bids, carved out employee take-home, investor interests, etc. Executed the acquisition – bid, LOI, due diligence, redline negotiation, investor expectations, etc.
- Presented to boards of 100 million+ valuation enterprises to expand business verticals.
- Been involved building iconic games at multiple million in revenue/day.
- Business Person of the Week by Times of India and EconomicTimes. Cover story by The Hindu, featured by Vanitha and other vernacular press.
Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
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