Karthik Ravichandran

Me

I love building useful products and leading amazing teams that put people first.
I'm a big believer in inspiration, and empathy.
I care about things I do, and will do whatever it takes.

Work

I help build Affirm's consumer products, experimentation platform, and metrics pipelines.

MindSumo is a best of its kind crowdsourcing platform that connects companies and millennials. Companies launch a variety of challenges to source ideas, work and insights. Solvers compete in challenges to win prizes, experience, and recognition. MindSumo has served over 100 companies (including 75 among the Fortune 500), and 2 million users (including 300,000 registered millennials).
I joined MindSumo as an Engineer (Data and Full Stack) in 2014. Since August 2015, I have been leading and managing all Product, Engineering and B2C Marketing efforts.
I developed strategies and led efforts that grew the solver millennial community 10x in 18 months (+ a strong y/y user and MAU growth). Peer referrals, incentives, marketing campaigns, SEO, and conversion optimization helped us create a process for growth.
With optimizations and new frameworks to improve sales lead generation, enterprise NPS, and overall team efficiency, the company became profitable and boasted a strong 10% mo/mo bookings growth for 12 months.
I designed features and strategies for our enterprise product and client management teams to increase the number of challenges that a company launches in a year by 50%.
I built the software infrastructure, the web, and mobile (iOS & Android) applications, and implemented dozens of successful features for the enterprise - white label offering, insights & submissions review dashboards, NLP, text analysis, HTML text highlights, solver payments, intra-organization referrals, need collectors, and third-party integrations.
Hired and led engineering, design, and product marketing teams.
An end-to-end crowdsourcing platform (AhaKit)that integrates into the workflow for consulting and CPG clients and will help collect and qualify needs, launch challenges, engage a variety of communities and vendors, collect/consume submissions, and finally extract useful insights or work. Currently setting up partnerships and pilots.

(Acquired by Lumosity)
I interned here in Summer 2013 during my Masters at Stanford. I helped Prophecy Sciences build its neuroscience based behavioral analysis system that was used by corporations and staffing firms to gather more data points about a candidate.
I built the software/hardware unit - sensors, microcontrollers, firmware, computer interfaces, and housing units.
I helped develop the algorithm that powered the insights engine.

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