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# Rakesh Patel on Tal

## Headline

Business Growth & Product Strategy \| P&L Leadership \| GTM & Growth Marketing \| Ex\-Founder \| IITB ’17

## About

Growth and strategy leader with 8\+ years of experience driving business growth, P&L ownership, product strategy, and GTM execution across startups and global enterprises\. Ex\-founder, IIT Bombay graduate, and ex\-Mastercard professional with proven expertise in scaling digital businesses, building revenue streams, and leading cross\-functional teams\. Passionate about solving business problems at the intersection of strategy, growth marketing, and product innovation, with a track record of delivering measurable impact in fast\-paced, high\-growth environments\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

grok

kimi

n8n

notion

obsidian

## Work experience

Senior Manager \- Growth & Revenue at Razorpay, Dec 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Manager, Business Growth at ALLEN Digital, Dec 2024 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Own P&L for CBSE portfolio, scaling revenue from ₹8 Cr → ₹15\.1 Cr in 6 months\. \- Drove geo\-targeted marketing \(performance, SEO, CRM, offline\) while cutting CAC by 40%\. \- Launched new asynchronous course – positioning, pricing, GTM & sales strategy\. \- Partnered with product to revamp freemium app journey, delivering 25% uplift in qualified leads\. \- Scaled organic \(SEO, referrals\) → 2\.5× SEO traffic & 40% revenue uplift \- Automated CRM \(WhatsApp, push, SMS\) → 48% revenue uplift from old leads

Product & Strategy at Superset, Jan 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 2 yrs, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \- Owned B2C PnL, scaling ARR from ₹1\.2 Cr → ₹7\.2 Cr by monetising 4\.5M\+ users\. \- Post\-acquisition: drove data migration & integration of Great Learning offerings\. \- Implemented WebEngage automation, boosting lead gen by 280%\. \- Ran A/B funnel experiments & in\-app nudges → 88% uplift in conversions\. \- Ideated & launched Launchpad \(job\-prep platform\) → 180K\+ users in 6 months\.

Co\-Founder at Cantilever Labs, Jan 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 3 yrs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, \- Built profitable B2B2C edtech startup → scaled to ₹3\.2 Cr ARR \- Forged partnerships with 6 IITs, 3 NITs, BITS & 50\+ colleges \- Built & led 12\-member team across product, content & marketing\. \- Drove growth marketing via SEO, content, newsletters → 60K\+ social followers\. \- Won HDFC SmartUp Challenge; featured in Telangana Times; selected for T\-Hub Lab32\.

Analyst at Mastercard Advisors, Jun 2017 \- Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Gurgaon, India, \- Developed BI solutions for 100\+ banks, saving 40\+ hrs/month\. \- Built fraud prediction models, improving accuracy by 18%\. \- Designed GTM strategy for co\-branded card with Chinese bank\. \- Drove 6% uplift in cross\-border spend through portfolio campaigns\. \- Filed 15 patents in blockchain, e\-commerce & payments \(3rd highest filings globally, 2018\)\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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