Hi! 👋 I'm Kavir (pronounced: kuh-veer like Kabir) — an experienced product manager, writer, and builder based in Bombay, India. Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet. I’ve led product management for Tier 1 VC (Accel, Sequoia) funded startups including CarDekho and Hashnode. And worked across B2B and B2C in auto, fintech, AI, collaboration tools, and media. Ex-founder of a bootstrapped HR-tech startup. ISB and On Deck alum. I built the car loans platform for CarDekho from scratch leading to $12M in annual disbursals, now operating at $1B disbursals annually. At Hashnode, I led the product roadmap to achieve an 80% increase in new sign-up growth rate and a 52% increase in retention of monthly active registered users. Currently, I advise and consult with startups. I also write a newsletter on product and AI with 5K+ subs and tinker with side projects built with AI and no-code. Outside of work, I enjoy football, gaming, FIFA, word games, standup comedy, and exploring new places to eat good food.
I love helping with:
🛣️ Product strategy and roadmap
8+ years experience being a product manager with a founder stint. Most recently drove the roadmap for Hashnode (Series A startup) for Q2 and Q3.
What I can help with:
- Product Specs review, prioritization support, metrics tracking, planning
- Guide to set up minimum viable processes
- Access to all the product management content I’ve written on The Discourse
🎨 Product design review
🚀 Product marketing + GTM
What I can help with:
- Launch/distribution strategy + Product Hunt launch
- Community building strategy
- Distribution to audience of 15,000+ (Twitter + LinkedIn + Newsletter)
- Distribution to ISB alums - 14,000+ (if in target market)
🛠️ No-code
Program director of The Product Folks no-code cohort program, no-code app builder (examples), and writer of No-code Shots weekly newsletter
What I can help with:
- Connect with No-code experts/builders to build MVPs in Bubble/Softr/Glide/Webflow/Framer
- Help select tools/platforms depending on use case
🤖 AI Strategy and Prompts
Created a compilation of ChatGPT prompts for PMs downloaded by 4000+ people and a bunch of AI work at Hashnode, have built side projects with AI.
What I can help with:
- Insights on overall AI strategy for the product
- Help with prompt engineering
🧑🤝🧑 Community
Program director of The Product Folks no-code cohort program (ran 3 cohorts), On Deck alumni
What I can help with:
- Community strategy and review
🕸️ Access to Network
ISB, On Deck and other networks
What I can help with:
- Sharing with my network through email channels, posting in groups
- Intros to key decision makers at various companies
What kind of niches do I have expertise in?
- B2C, B2B Saas
- Media, content, future of work, productivity, work collaboration, career-tech, mental health, auto, fintech
How do I work best?
- I like meetings with agendas, pre-reads shared before the call, and action items shared after the call
- I like keeping updated through consistent written + Loom updates
How to contact
- DM on Twitter (@kavirkaycee)
- Email (kavir@hey.com)
- WhatsApp (will share number personally)
- Zoom call (I'll send you my Cal link personally)