Yasmin Sadia Lakdawala
SFounder, Willow Foods - consumer fintech · growth · lending
- Willow Foods
- Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
- 7+ years experience
- IIM Lucknow
- English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview
Founder of Willow Foods, working on consumer finance. Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company. Before that: Walmart Global Tech and Goldman Sachs. I coach a junior basketball team.
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Skills
growthmobilecomplianceconsumer fintechlending
Experience
- FounderFeb 2023 - PresentWillow Foods · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Took Willow Foods from zero to $3 million ARR.
- Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
- Grew the team to 41 people across 2 countries.
- Associate PartnerOct 2021 - Feb 2023Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 33 engineers.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 4.
- Business AnalystNov 2019 - Oct 2021Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Shipped 8 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
Projects
Consumer finance benchmark
2026Reproducible benchmarks comparing mobile and consumer fintech on real workloads.
Side project: a budgeting app
2024Built with compliance and consumer fintech. 2406 people used it last year.
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Education
- IIM LucknowMBA, Business Administration2021 - 2023
- Amity UniversityB.Tech, Computer Science2014 - 2018
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