Hi, I'm Tanishk!

4x founder and AI-native product leader with 10 years of startup experience. I built one of the first AI SaaS products in 2021, powered by GPT-3 during its private beta. Shipped social media and e-commerce to 35M users and generated $50M in sales pipelines.

Now

Work Experience

Head of Product

fluffbotics · Jun 2023 – Present

Bengaluru · Agentic AI · Hardware · Internet

Leading AI and product strategy for a conversational robotics startup, scaling chatbots to 25M users.

Staff Product Manager

CareStack · Nov 2022 – Jun 2023

Bengaluru · Healthcare · Finance

Owned payments and patient experience products for a US dental practice management SaaS.

Senior Product Manager

Revenoid (Evabot) · Aug 2021 – Oct 2022

San Francisco · Sales Tools · AI · SaaS

First PM hire at a US B2B AI sales tool; introduced product culture and led the company's pivot to AI.

Founding Product Manager

Koo · Jan – Aug 2021

Bengaluru · Social Media · ML · Algorithms

Sole product contributor during Koo's 0 → 10M user growth in 6 months.

Founder

Openly · Jul 2018 – Dec 2020

Bengaluru · Hyperlocal Marketplace

Founded a hyperlocal marketplace for Bengaluru SMBs, reaching 10K users and 200+ stores.

Co-Founder

Urban X · May 2017 – Jun 2018

Bengaluru · Helicopter Taxi

Co-founded India's first commercial helicopter taxi between Electronic City and Bengaluru airport.

Technology & Strategy Consultant

Freelance · 2016 – 2018

Bengaluru · Digital Transformation · E-commerce

Product and tech consultant for e-commerce, ERP, and Salesforce integrations across India and Europe.

Founder

Twine · 2015 – 2016

Bengaluru · AR Platform · Location-based Services

AR platform for location-based hyperlocal services.

Articles

Jun 2026 · 4 min read

The Rules That Don't Exist

Most of the rules you've been told don't exist. Here's how they spread.

🧭 Philosophy

Most hobbies come with an unofficial rulebook nobody wrote. The rules spread, people follow them, and something simple becomes unnecessarily hard. This is about why that happens and what to do about it.

Jun 2026 · 4 min read

Stop Building Solutions, Start Solving Problems

Most products fail before a single line of code is written. Here's the three-step process to fix that.

🤖 AI📦 Product♟️ Strategy🚀 Startups🛠️ Building

Most products fail before a single line of code is written. Not because of bad execution, but because the problem was never properly defined. Here's a three-step process to get it right before you build anything.

Side Projects & Advisory

  • Mentor

    IntNext · 2026

    AI Productivity for Education

    Mentoring an AI productivity startup for the education sector.

  • Mentor

    SR Aerospace · Jan 2023 – May 2024

    Drone Propulsion

    Built the full business division; set up sales, marketing, and government/defence relations channels.

  • Mentor

    Skello · Jan – Mar 2023

    Prediction Market Platform

    Advised on GTM strategy and business planning.

  • Co-Founder

    Octave Advisory · Mar 2021 – Jan 2022

    Blockchain & Web3 · Dubai

    Co-founded a Web3 advisory firm in Dubai; 15+ clients including local banks and government organisations.

  • Visiting Faculty & E-Cell Mentor

    Presidency University · 2019

    Education & Entrepreneurship

    Set up the on-campus startup incubator; taught AI in Business for MBA students; keynoted 2 international conferences.

  • Consultant

    Ticketing.in · Oct 2020

    Event Management

    Planned and built website and mobile app for a ticketing and event management platform.

  • Consultant

    WeShare · Nov 2019

    Switzerland · Social Platform

    Planned and built a social media platform for Arsenal footballer Johan Djorou.

  • Consultant

    OohMyGift · Mar 2016 – Jan 2017

    Gift Registry Platform

    Led a 5-person team from concept to launch across iOS, Android, and web in under 2 months.

Posts

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Jun 2026

The real AI revolution has not happened yet. We'll see it when it reaches the other 80%.

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Jun 2026

AI gives you the form of an answer without the content of one.

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Jun 2026

"Do what worked for me" is the most common form of bad advice.

Skills

AI & ML

🧠 Agentic Orchestration 🔍 LLM Fine-tuning ⚖️ LLM Evaluation 📂 RAG ✏️ Prompt Engineering 💰 AI Cost Optimisation

Product

🚀 0→1 Products 🎯 Product Strategy 🎨 Product Design 🌱 Growth & PLG 📊 Data Analytics 🗺️ Roadmapping

Engineering

💻 Full-stack 📱 Mobile (iOS/Android) 🔗 REST APIs 🏗️ System Design

Business

💸 Sales & GTM 💼 Fundraising 👥 Team Building 🤝 Advisory

Awards

🏆Startup Karnataka: ELEVATE Grant2019 · Winner
🏆IIM-A Masterplan Startup Competition2018 · Winner · National top 5
🏆IIT-M Elevate-X Startup Competition2016 · Winner · National top 8
🏆Thiel Fellowship Finalist2015 · Top 8 internationally

Let's talk.

Currently looking for my next big thing. I'm most interested in AI-first products with real ambition: agentic systems, consumer AI, or something nobody has built yet. If you're building something with AI, let's talk.

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Last updated: 16th June 2026