Varun Dhawan

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Principal 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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productapplied MLventure capital

Experience

  1. Principal
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Tamarind Growth · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Backed 14 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
    Zomato · 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.
  3. Director of Product
    May 2018 - Jul 2019
    Tata 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.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2016 - May 2018
    BigBasket · 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

  1. IIM Ahmedabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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