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# Harsh Dwivedi on Tal

## Headline

Co\-founder @Medial \| Forbes 30u30 \| As seen on Shark Tank

## About

Technical product builder with experience across engineering, product, growth, and startups\. Previously founded Medial \(500K\+ users, Shark Tank India, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia\) and worked on growth engineering at Pratilipi\. Passionate about building products from 0→1, scaling them through rapid experimentation and data\-driven decisions, and solving hard problems at the intersection of technology, product, AI, and human behavior\. Curious about consumer products, startups, AI, growth, and building things people love\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

## Work experience

Co\-Founder \(Product and Tech\) at Medial, Jul 2023 \- Jul 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Built and scaled Medial, a professional social network connecting founders, builders, operators, investors, and ambitious students\. \- Grew the platform to 500,000\+ users, enabling networking, hiring, fundraising, and collaboration\. \- Raised $600K across rounds to take the company from idea to a scaled consumer product\. \- Led product, engineering, growth, hiring, fundraising, and overall company strategy\. \- Designed and launched social networking features that increased engagement and strengthened community interactions\. \- Helped thousands of users find co\-founders, teammates, jobs, internships, fundraising opportunities, and long\-term professional relationships\. \- Pitched Medial on Shark Tank India and secured an investment commitment from Ritesh Agarwal, significantly increasing brand visibility\. \- Recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia \(Consumer Technology/Consumer Apps category\)\. \- Built and led a high\-performing cross\-functional team across engineering, product, design, and growth\. \- Navigated multiple stages of company growth while continuously iterating toward product\-market fit in the highly competitive consumer social space\. Medial impacted the lives of thousands of people across the startup ecosystem\. Building it was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my career, and the lessons, relationships, and community we created will stay with me for life\.

Software Developer \(Growth\) at Pratilipi, Mar 2021 \- Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Member of Pratilipi's Growth team and Single Point of Contact \(SPOC\) for the website across 12 languages, serving as the code owner\. \- Led the end\-to\-end migration of the web platform from CSR to SSR, rewriting the codebase in Nuxt\.js and Tailwind CSS to significantly improve performance and maintainability\. \- Improved website performance, increasing Google Lighthouse scores from 10 to 70 through frontend optimization and lightweight architecture\. \- Built and shipped growth experiments and user\-facing features to improve reader engagement, content consumption, and web\-to\-app conversion funnels\. \- Worked on a high\-impact SEO initiative that increased organic traffic by 100%\+, expanded indexed pages from 800K to 5M, and grew search impressions from 100K to 800K across multiple languages\. \- Used product analytic tools to debug user behavior, monitor key metrics, evaluate experiments, and support data\-driven product decisions\. \- Built internal tools and side projects, including a B2C sales website and CMS platforms for internal teams\. I'm incredibly grateful to have experienced one of the strongest cultures of ownership and leadership early in my career\. It has had a lasting influence on how I think about building products from first principles and "Always try to the do the right thing"\.

CP Lead at GeeksforGeeks KIIT, Oct 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr, India

## Education

CSE, Java, KIIT \- Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

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