I'm Ayush and I am here to help you build the future.
As a leader and advisor to startups, I specialize in building and scaling products as well as product organizations. I've helped startups across industries and stages of growth answer questions like:
What should we build next? Why?
How do we develop our first ten customers?
We have an idea X but constraints A, B, C prevent us from building it. Can we explore this idea today?
How do we generate customer insights?
How do we prove or disprove ideas as quickly as we can?
How do we build and empower our product teams to make the best decisions?
How to we collaborate with engineering and design to build the right things as quickly as we can?
How do we get sales, customer success, marketing and leadership in the loop and excited about what we're building?
How can I help YOU?
APIs for industrial automation
VP of Product
Built Product org of 5 including design and analytics and launched 2 new Products enabling $2M ARR (Seed)
AI negotiations
VP of Product
Built Product org of 6 and introduced 3 new Product lines winning 5+ Fortune 500 deals (Series A)
Customer Service
Product lead for Infrastructure
Shipped 10X+ faster reporting upgrades, Cut costs by 20% at 4X growth (Series D)
Supply Chain Labor Analytics
Co-founder & CPO
Launched in 7 countries and sold to US Govt, 6 Retail Fortune 500s with <$1M raised. Authored Patent and book chapter (Seed)
VC Fund
Mentor
Mentored 30+ EU/US/Asia Seed-stage startups on product management, GTM strategy, PMF, pricing, sales, analytics. 20+ raised further capital. Consistently rated a top mentor.
Management Consulting
Advisor
Advisor to C-suite/Product leadership at Seed through late Stage startups in crypto, digital identity, cybersecurity, and eCommerce. Built product org capabilities and sourced talent.
VC Fund
Founding Partner
First-ever founder-led security token, backed by Anthony Pompliano with $3M+ raised.
VC Fund
Advisor
GTM and operational advisor to NYC-focused fund, invested in Coinbase.
AR/VR
Product Advisor
Launched two 3D visualization products for Fortune 500, 3X customers and first reference customer
Fintech, Ecommerce
Product Analyst
Served 11 Product teams and launched two 0-1 products, PayPal Here (Square competitor) and in-store shopping through the PayPal app.
Knowledge, non-profit
Data Analyst
Published first ever qualitative and quantitative study of Wikipedia users and editors, origin of most cited Wikipedia statistic - only 9% of editors are women.
Research
Research Analyst
Seminal work on understanding Silicon Valley networks and how they work, led by Prof Vivek Wadhwa