Rohan Abhinav Varshney

About Rohan Abhinav Varshney

Available 2026 for Strategy, Product & Growth roles Picture this: You\'re 21, sitting across from VCs offering a quarter million for your mental wellness app. Your product has tens of thousands of users. Product Metrics are up and to the right. Your team believes in the vision. And you say NO. Not because the terms were bad, but because you finally understood what you actually wanted to build – and it wasn\'t another startup. The Backstory My journey started unconventionally. National-level winner in karate and football through my teens - Brown 1 Belt. Discipline. Strategy. Team dynamics. These weren\'t just sports skills – they became my business foundation. At 18, I built my first company during COVID. AI-powered Ecommerce, profitable, decent exit. But something felt off. The isolation. The constant uncertainty. The weight of every decision. So I tried again. Built a mental wellness super-app using gamification and behavioral psychology. We cracked user acquisition. Created something people loved. Got that inbound VC interest. The Realization Then came my Tata Motors internship. Working with their VP Product and CPO on premium EV strategy. Suddenly, I wasn\'t fighting for resources or validation. I was leveraging institutional knowledge, massive scale, established infrastructure. I was building products that could actually change markets – not just survive them. That\'s when it hit me: Instead of being a founder again, I want to be the person who creates and takes corporate products from good to extraordinary The Pivot Duke Tech MBA became my bridge. Strategy, finance, marketing – building the toolkit to maximize corporate impact. Won product competitions. Led consulting projects for Microsoft AI and Oracle. Learned that my superpower isn\'t creating from zero – it\'s accelerating what already exists. What I Bring The pattern recognition from building products twice. The growth mindset from scaling teams. The strategic thinking from competitive analysis. The execution speed from startup environments. But channeled into corporate environments where I can focus on what I love: product strategy, user psychology, market dynamics, and cross-functional leadership. I\'ve scratched the founding itch. Been there, done that, learned the lessons. Now I\'m laser-focused on building my career at companies where I can drive exponential product impact without the chaos of startup life. Let\'s build something extraordinary together.

Experience

1. Product Manager - Energy Products and Software

   Tesla

   Aug 2025 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2020 — 2024

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

  Master's degree

  2024 — 2026

• Duke University

  Master's of Engineering Management - Product Management, Strategy & Analytics

  2024 — 2026