More about Karthik Vaidyanath
Karthik is currently a Product Leader at Facebook in Singapore - working on Ads & Business Products and supporting a team of 50+ across Singapore & Menlo Park.
Over the course of his career, he's had the opportunity to build/ scale products, support/ coach strong PMs and lead large cross-functional teams across a broad range of domains:
- FinTech, Camera, Stories & LiveStreaming products across the 3 startups he had founded (1 acquired by a unicorn)
- Subscription Video-on-Demand product at GoJek, the Indonesian unicorn.
- Search, Personalisation & Content Aggregation products at Indeed, the world’s biggest job search engine with over 250Mn MAU.
Given his varied experience -- both as a seasoned entrepreneur who's scaled teams/product 0 to 1 and as big-tech product leader scaling teams/products 1 to 100 -- Karthik brings a wealth of product experiences which startups/founders might benefit from.
Over the course of his career, he's had the opportunity to build/ scale products, support/ coach strong PMs and lead large cross-functional teams across a broad range of domains:
- FinTech, Camera, Stories & LiveStreaming products across the 3 startups he had founded (1 acquired by a unicorn)
- Subscription Video-on-Demand product at GoJek, the Indonesian unicorn.
- Search, Personalisation & Content Aggregation products at Indeed, the world’s biggest job search engine with over 250Mn MAU.
Given his varied experience -- both as a seasoned entrepreneur who's scaled teams/product 0 to 1 and as big-tech product leader scaling teams/products 1 to 100 -- Karthik brings a wealth of product experiences which startups/founders might benefit from.
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