Chief Product Officer
Product, design, marketing, and the self-serve business. Took the product into its AI chapter, and kept it tied to what a customer was trying to find.
mgtm
San Francisco
Megh
Gautam
I build enduring businesses by building valuable products.
Product leadership, Apps at Box. Chief product officer at Crunchbase before that.
01 Now
Product leadership
Getting enterprises ready for agents. The files are already there. What has to hold is the permissions, and a person's trust.
02 Roles
What I was accountable for
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Head of Product
Editions. Owned the P&L across messaging and Segment.
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Director of Product
Replay and Capture, both from zero to customers. Before that, the enterprise line: identity and the filesystem.
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Director of Product
Relate, from zero. The last mile between an advisor and a client, with compliance still in the loop.
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Product Lead
An API for private placements, from a proof of concept to about ninety funding platforms.
Product Manager
Greenplum Command Center, for the analytics database.
Software Engineer
Master data on SQL Server, then consulting: turning a customer's ask into a build.
Stanford, MS in Management Science and Engineering. Lean Launchpad and the d.school.
03 Capital
What I back
I have been investing since 2021. The brief is narrow on purpose.
| Focus | Data, regtech, fintech, vertical software |
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| The work | Back-office automation. A person in the loop, an if-else, or a model. |
| Where | Mostly the United States. I will look at India. |
04 In the media
In the media
Podcasts, profiles, pieces I wrote, and rooms I showed up in.
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Best Chief Product Officer, San Francisco Business Times Award · Stanford MS&E
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Shipping AI without eating the product underneath Podcast · Paragon
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Boxworks Visit · Box
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Building AI into a product that already exists Podcast · SaaS Sessions
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The AI overhaul at Crunchbase Profile · LogRocket
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From signals to strategy Keynote · GenAI Week, Silicon Valley
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Can AI predict the next unicorn Podcast · Tech Finance
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AI in consumer products Panel · Smart AI Leadership Summit
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A fireside in San Francisco Fireside · The Gathering
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Flat teams and siloed teams Podcast · Modern CTO
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Predicting startup success with data Roundtable · Data-Driven VC
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From engineering to product leadership Podcast · Modern CTO
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Using AI on a job application Session · Stanford MS&E
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How Crunchbase’s AI helps a decision Profile · Forbes
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My year as Crunchbase’s CPO Essay · Crunchbase
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Scaling design thinking for sports Panel · SXSW
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Nudge, from Lean Launchpad Deck · Steve Blank’s class
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A paper on personnel-centric knowledge management Paper · Springer
I read early drafts of Nir Eyal’s Hooked.
05 Write
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