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That covers monetization, product, sales enablement and customer experience.A few numbers from that work:1/ 30 lakh to 1 crore+ monthly users in 5 years2/ Our first paid product, 0 to 1,000+ paying clients in year one3/ Info Edge Platinum Award for Best Project of the Year (2026), and the Exceptional Achiever Award (2023), given to 15 of 6,000+ employeesI came to product the long way around. Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering. Then the first PGDBA batch at IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur and ISI Kolkata.After that came Evalueserve, Oracle and American Express, where I built an NLP model that grew the target loan base by 1M+ customers. Then consulting at Alvarez & Marsal for Fortune 500 clients and PE firms. 2 EdTech startups taught me how products actually get built. At INDmoney I launched a mutual fund tracker that read straight from AMC statements and took accuracy from 85% to 99.8% in 6 months.Outside work, I write and teach. 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