Abhishek Madhavan

For close to 1.5 years, I did marketing and later product management at Crowdfire, an early-stage global consumer startup based in Mumbai. Crowdfire is a marketing app and has close to 16 million users globally, and more than $5 million in annual revenue.

Last year, I joined as the first marketing hire for Hotline (Mobile product) from Freshdesk (Google-funded Saas unicorn).

I'm currently the youngest marketing lead at Freshdesk, leading a cross-functional team of 6 people, as Hotline has gone from zero to hundreds of thousands in revenue in less than a year.

Recently, I was the youngest to be named in the 40 most influential globally in product management amongst people from Facebook and Google. I'm also a LinkedIn India tech influencer, and write for Wired magazine and Huffington Post.

I blog regularly on Medium and have also built up a sizeable following of startup folks on Twitter.

In fact, you may have also read my runaway viral article on Tinder which prompted thousands of Tinder users to copy my strategy.

Currently: I also consult for Headspace's (Silicon Valley based startup) India strategy, and am also conceptualising India's first mainstream tech podcast for Saavn.

I've a pretty good hang of the basics of branding/marketing, a knack for building audiences, am very impact/result oriented and have a high bias for learning.