ABOUT
I take monkeys off founders' backs.
As a product manager, business owner, team builder, and occasional investor/board member, I have been fortunate to support founders at early stages in firms such as Sharpsell, Pocketpills, Article, Razorpay, enParadigm, and RavenMail. I'm proud to have helped stellar operators at multiple stages: from bootstrapped pre-PMF founders to YC-alum hypergrowth scale-ups to profitable firms bringing in $500m+ a year.
Founders first.
A decade of your life on a sub-10% probability? That takes guts, which I admire; and conviction, which I echo. It's a privilege to make that endeavour just a little bit easier.
I've been taking monkeys off founders' backs since 2014: as employee #1, the first business hire, the first Head of Product, a forward-deployed engineer / analyst / PM, and the backup AE, designer, or demo-dev when the work demanded it.
Why 'ProtoPM'.
I broke into product management more than a decade ago with enParadigm. Back when they wanted to "try out" their first product management hire. A "proto" PM of sorts.
Plus, the domain.