Hey there 👋🏼
- I’m Darshan, a web3-native founder, generalist & researcher.
- I’ve got 5+ years in entrepreneurship, product management and data science
- Am super excited about the early-stage startup ecosystem and eager to collaborate with early-stage founders on business, product, and data insights.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the best projects & VCs in the ecosystem. Some of them include 👇🏼
Here’s a brief about my experiences 👇🏼
- Founder, FutureX
- 🎯 Product (website)
- Building a website to enable early-stage product discovery across web3 verticals
- Developed an advanced scraper tool for early-stage project identification and connectivity
- 💡 Newsletter (link)
- 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)
- ✍🏼 Tribe / Lost Realms - Lead Researcher (link)
- 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 👇🏼
- 💰 WAGMI Ventures - Venture Partner
- Venture Partner at Wagmi Ventures, doing project research & driving $8mn+ investments alongside leading VCs like a16z, Dragonfly.
- Top 3 threads 👇🏼
- 🎮 Researcher, Matchbox DAO - Infra & On-chain Games
- Conducted an in-depth analysis of 60+ projects in the Urbit ecosystem - connected with 15+ projects including the Urbit foundation & leading investors in the ecosystem.
- Focused on researching about launching a discovery platform for on-chain games - worked on strategy, marketing, product breakdowns for user acquisition
- 🧑🏼💼 👩🏼💼 Founder JobsQuest (link)
- 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
- 👷🏼♂️ 🛠️ Tech, Data & Product (5+ years experience)
- Product Manager (Web3 & Gaming), Loco (raised $42mn Series A):
- Co-led building out India's first web3 esports fantasy game
- Managed India’s biggest tournament with 260k+ concurrent viewers.
- Co-led the creation of mini-games, achieving 50k+ downloads.
- Drove app monetization and revamped the rewards & loyalty programs
- Conducted deep-dives and research on competitor benchmarking, user interviews, market analysis & financial modeling
- Data Science & Engineering
- Worked as a data scientist, building recommendation engines for personalised user experiences, serving 200mn+ users.
- Designed pipelines for the reco engine, enhancing operational efficiency by 60% by reducing 100+ hours man hours weekly
- Led the development of a personalized top navigation model, using topic modeling to rank widgets
- Worked on pattern matching algorithms and improved data quality to increase the search click rate by 7%
- 🔎 Stanford & MIT Research (google scholar)
- 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)
