Varun Dhawan
SPrincipal at Tamarind Growth · AI applications
- Tamarind Growth
- Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
- 10+ years experience
- IIM Ahmedabad
- English, Hindi, Kannada
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Principal at Tamarind Growth, backing AI applications companies. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
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Experience
- PrincipalJan 2023 - PresentTamarind Growth · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Sit on 5 boards.
- Backed 14 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Group Product ManagerJul 2019 - Jan 2023Zomato · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Took growth activation from 19% to 45% in three quarters.
- Ran 120 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Director of ProductMay 2018 - Jul 2019Tata Motors · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Ran 111 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
- Associate Product ManagerOct 2016 - May 2018BigBasket · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 17 days to 2.
- Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
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Education
- IIM AhmedabadMBA, Business Administration2017 - 2019
- IIT KharagpurB.Tech, Computer Science2012 - 2016
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