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title: "Shashank Sahu(SID Degen) - Core Contributor in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Shashank Sahu\(SID Degen\) on Tal

## Headline

Product & Growth Leader · 0→1 AI products · Founder · IIT Bombay

## About

I take products and communities from 0 to 1 — then scale them hard\. Over 8 years across fintech, crypto, and AI, I've: • Grown Mudrex 10K → 800K\+ users — led product\-led growth and rebuilt the acquisition stack from scratch • Scaled YieldFi's community 25K → 140K\+ as Head of Product & Growth • Shipped AI products end\-to\-end — SatoshiGPT hit \#1 in AI and Crypto on Product Hunt; OnlyCalls \(autonomous AI agents\) reached a $12M peak • Built Amazon India's US\-marketplace seller business $0 → $2M ARR in 6 months I think like an owner because I am one\. I've founded my own products and run the full growth stack — PLG, referral and acquisition loops, lifecycle, community, partnerships — paired with deep product ownership\. Right now I'm building at the AI frontier, most energized by early\-stage teams turning hard problems into products people love\. If you're a founder building something ambitious in AI and want someone who can own growth and product from day one — let's talk\. IIT Bombay · Based in Bengaluru, work globally

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

elevenlabs

hermes agent

kimi

## Work experience

Core Contributor at OGI \- Orthogonal General Intelligence, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, OGI is the navigation layer for the simulation OGI reads your present reality — your decisions, dependencies, what you've built, who you know, where you are — and computes the trajectory you're already on\. Then it shows you the three moves that bend that trajectory toward the reality you actually want to inhabit\. Not optimization\. Not advice\. Navigation\.

Investor at SelfMind, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, I lost my sister earlier this year, she was just 20, took the Q1 pretty light, only thing she was suffering with was a bi0polar disorder, thought alot of folks would want to have someone to talk to, how about ai agents who do that?

Founder at Degenfund, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Milkyway, bootstraped a hedgefund out of crypto, soon my anon identity became my main identity, scaled from $20K to $500K now evolved into 0to1space where we inculcate ideas and solve tangential problems 0to1 in order to collect context and help founders by nurturing ideas into products

Founder at OnlyCalls, Oct 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr, Remote, i was trading memes for fun, that fun led to creation of OnlyCalls, Set of AI agents to predict next moonshots within 30 second of their launch you needed to hodl atleast 4\.2069M $CALLS token to get the calls, tokenised it on virtuals, one of the first Agent launched upon virtuals first project i ever tokenised, worked out well for runway ran to about $12 million, as memecycle faded corrected over the course to 200k kinda valuation

Head of Product and Growth at YieldFi, Sep 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 7 mos, Remote, Previously Olive Headed community and growth for OliveSpear, leading a team of 3 to take the community from 25K to 140K\+ members\. Owned adoption strategy across both testnet and mainnet, turning early users into an active, engaged community through the full launch lifecycle\.

## Education

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

Diploma of Education, Product Management, IE Business School

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