Deepak Natarajan

Overview

Founder of Slate Pay (D2C food brands). 13 years of building before that. Grew the team to 63 people across 3 countries.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Founder

   Sep 2024 - Present
   Slate Pay · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
   • Grew the team to 95 people across 4 countries.
2. Associate Product Manager

   Jul 2023 - Sep 2024
   Wipro · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 20 days to 4.
   • Took logistics activation from 27% to 45% in three quarters.
3. Principal Product Manager

   Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
   Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Led or co-led 16 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
4. Director of Product

   Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
   Samsung R&D · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Ran 153 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
   • Took logistics activation from 34% to 47% in three quarters.
5. Director of Product

   Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
   Groww · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Ran 112 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

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Education

1. Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

   MBA, Business Administration
   2012 - 2014
2. Symbiosis International University

   BBA, Economics
   2008 - 2012