Darshan’s Experiences

Building a website to enable early-stage product discovery across web3 verticals
Developed an advanced scraper tool for early-stage project identification and connectivity

I run a weekly newsletter that delves into 100+ projects, subscribers include VCs from Founders Fund, Multicoin, and Coinbase
It focuses more on tech side across infra, zK, tooling
Top 3 coverages (loved by the respective teams / founders as well)

I led the newsletter research for Tribe, serving diamond holders (4.5eth floor) and a community of 15,000+ genesis soul holders. Helping partner with projects.
It focused more on the business & strategy side across NFT, gaming, social
Top 3 coverages 👇🏼

Venture Partner at Wagmi Ventures, doing project research & driving $8mn+ investments alongside leading VCs like a16z, Dragonfly.
Top 3 threads 👇🏼

Conducted an in-depth analysis of 60+ projects in the Urbit ecosystem - connected with 15+ projects, Urbit foundation & investors.
Focused on researching about launching a discovery platform for on-chain games - worked on strategy, marketing, product breakdowns for user acquisition

Successfully built an audience of 100k+ with $0 spent in infrastructure & marketing, partnered with 100+ companies like Byjus, Great Learning, scaling to 150k+ MAV, generating 50mn+ impressions, with an engagement rate of 11.29%
Led & managed a team of 20+, driving the growth of product by acquiring users, building communities & partnerships
Overlooked the product, including market analysis, user interviews, creating user personas & roadmaps, building websites. Set up GTM strategy spotting trends & patterns, setting goals, distribution channels, pricing & branding

Worked as a data scientist, building recommendation engines for personalised user experiences, serving 200mn+ users.
Co-led building out India's first web3 esports fantasy game
Managed India’s biggest tournament with 260k+ concurrent viewers
Co-led the product strategy & GTM of mini-games, achieving 50k+ downloads.
Drove app monetization and revamped the rewards & loyalty programs

Been a Researcher at Stanford working on data engineering & ML algos for historical data
Led 3 papers at MIT Pathcheck, focused on COVID-19 vaccine certificate digitisation back in 2020 (was also a part of the leadership committee of MIT Vaccine Conference)

Zomato India EDA: link
A crop-recommendation tool I developed for farmers in Maharashtra (presented to the government as well): link
Spotify top-100 songs data analysis: link
Employee attrition data visualisation: link

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