Upahar S.

About Upahar S.

With over 11 years of experience as a seasoned product and technology leader, I have been on multiple 0-1 journeys across consumer facing products (B2C and D2C) around Ecommerce, commercial real estate, financial services, capital markets and social media.\"Product led growth\" is what excites me the most. I have built and led teams across Product - Tech, UX, Content Marketing, SEO, Performance and Sales / Support. As a founder I have also had a key role in developing the initial marketing strategy as well as the overall business strategy. I am a practitioner of agile methodologies, JTBD and the OKR framework. Excited by the 800 million strong digital audience in India who will soon adopt digital products. I started my career as a software engineer for a small IT services company in New Jersey, USA. After 8 years in the US, I returned to India in 2015 to start my entrepreneurial journey. I\'ve co-founded four companies since then. The first was Of10, an open concept coworking community space in Powai, Mumbai. The company was a decent success until the pandemic during which we were forced to shut down. The plus point was that I enjoyed building a community of startups, leaders, interacting and learning from hundreds of like-minded folks over 5 years. While running the coworking space, I connected with my high school friend and started a GIF/Meme platform called Gifmos. Owing to low adoption, we eventually pivoted to a hyperlocal social community platform for tier 2 / 3 cities called Manpasand. We even visited a few tier 2/3 towns in India an onboarded many local creators, shopkeepers, politicians and journalists on the platform. However we failed to find a clear path to monetisation. I currently run Teji Mandi, a wealth management startup I led from 0 to 1. We are a fixed cost commission free Digital Investment advisor and we provide an actively managed basket of stocks with an investment as low as Rs Our advice is as per your risk profile and we assign these readymade baskets accordingly. The company was acquired by Motilal Oswal in 2021 and since then we have scaled the company from 0 to over paid subscribers and are at a 1M$ ARR as of now and growing. I am involved in the app UX, information architecture, UI, hiring, content, technology architecture, team culture and many other aspects of the product. What can folks reach out to me for- Trying out your product and getting detailed/bias-free feedback - Generate ideas to solve complex product and technology problems - Building remote-first tech, product and UX teams

Experience

1. Product

   Landeed | YC

   Jun 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2007 — 2011

• Dhirubhai Ambani International School

  International Baccalaureate, Physics HL, Chemistry HL, Math HL, English SL, French SL, Business and Management SL

  2005 — 2007

• GrowthX®

  Product & Growth Program, Business Administration and Management, General

  2023 — 2024