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BentoLabs AI YC (P26) | 3x Founding GTM | B2B Marketing & Comms for AI-native startups

About

I got hired in 24 hours by an agent-native YC P26 startup. Here's how you can do it: - get 40k people to read your book on Wattpad a week before your high school final sem - design event posters. fill seats. track footfall. run the fest. get elected AGS. do it at 16 - volunteer in Vietnam. teach orphanage kids conversational English - build a Global Village with RMIT Vietnam: 30+ countries, 250+ attendees, perform Bharatanatyam to represent India - get into film school. accept a full-time job 6 months before graduation - start a 2-person agency during COVID - partner with India's messiest category—fabrics—as your first D2C client, grow it from 0 to $6.6M in 18 months, without AI. do everything from paid ads to influencer campaigns. - invest your savings into your own streetwear startup. watch it fail. keep the lessons - become the youngest faculty partner teaching Marketing 0→1 at K.J. Somaiya College - get referred by a junior. become the youngest partner faculty at NMIMS JDSoLA at 22 - enable students to build business plans as capstone, watch two students get their d2c stationary business acquired 4 years later - cold DM the founder of the UK's largest international student career hub. get hired in a week. launch 3 flagship programs. impact millions of students - become founding marketer at a SaaS startup. lead the journey from invisible to Shark Tank India - join a boutique B2B global agency - learn under two women founders who redefine leadership, taste, building with intention and excellence - learn relentlessly. - burn out. fall sick. admit you've plateaued - vanish. meet a product builder who can build a working MVP from three sentences. spend 8 months learning even when you're told you're not keeping up. drop the ego. obsess over thought behind the craft - build Internshala's first Personal Branding course. write, shoot, edit. take 120 video chapters live in 90 days - hit rock bottom - sit with your self / soul in Kashi, Rishikesh, Himachal and Chhindwara until validation stops mattering. Evaluate the why behind your choices ahead. Trust yourself > other's opinions / perceptions of you. - return to freelancing. help an EY partner from Zurich transition to becoming an entrepreneur - mentor students / early career professionals - spend time with family - reconnect with an old mentor without asking for anything-get referred to a YC-P26 startup - Interview at 1 AM on a Saturday. Start 1pm on Sunday. I'm not the smartest person in the room. I still second-guess myself. But I'll happily outwork yesterday's version of me.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

lovable

mcp

meta

notion

ChatGPT

Work experience

B2B Enterprise Product Marketing, GTM Comms and Special Projects at BentoLabs AI (YC P26), May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, GTM, ABM, and anything that connects people to product to revenue

Course Director & Instructor at Internshala, Aug 2025 - Feb 2026 · 7 mos

Forward Deployed Product Marketing Lead at Tailwind, Aug 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Fractional Product Marketing Lead at Intervue.io, May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

A Shapeshifting Amoeba at 7 Years of building a skill constellation, Nov 2018 - Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos, the world is my oyester, 2025 Co-created India's first accessible Personal Branding course for tier-2/3 students, interns and early-career professionals. 12 modules. 120+ videos. 4.6/5 student rating. 2024 - 2025 Led accounts at GainTailwind across India, Japan, UAE and the US. Managed thought leadership, employer branding, pre-sales IP, events, whitepapers. Drove PLG as well as B2B growth across multiple accounts. 2023 - 2024 Built the GTM & authority layer for former EY Partner (Zurich) Gitanjali Ponnappa’s entrepreneurial venture, NegotiateHer built for women & people of color in Europe. 2023 - Led the team that took Intervue.io to Shark Tank India and created proof-of-goodwill video systems with CHROs and SaaS founders that function as a credibility layer for sales even today. 2022 - 2023 - Drove Content-led PLG for Student Circus the UK & EU and launched the Career Ignition Hub on a £500/mo budget, all across 100+ Universities. 2020 - 2022 - Youngest partner faculty at NMIMS JDSoLA University. Built and taught the Digital Marketing curriculum (remotely during Covid) for 200+ Liberal Arts students. Student rating never dropped below 3.7/5. 🏆A stationary and journaling brand, Humanhood, conceptualised by 2 students during capstone demo day became a EBIDTA positive business & got acquired by FutureWagon. 2019 - Youngest partner faculty commissioned to design K.J Somaiya University’s first Digital Marketing curriculum as a 3-month summer bootcamp for 150+ students across three batches. 2018 - 2022 Co-founded and ran an independent GTM & growth studio for four years in the pre-AI era - First marketing hire at Fabric Pandit & core marketing operator of the 0 - $6M+ journey - Put digital distribution & influencer marketing in motion for Emprall, Pocketly App, WorldGrad, Polite Society, Happywagon with a combined revenue surpassing $1.5M. First job: loglines, screenplays and a pilot read by Varun Grover. Learned that storytelling is the substrate of strategy.

Education

BA in Filmmaking with Specialisation in Screenwriting, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Whistling woods international

High School, The KET's V. G. Vaze College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous)