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title: "Tarun Firodiya - Co-Founder in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Tarun Firodiya, founder @Jumbo based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes aistudio, gemini, and hermes agent."
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# Tarun Firodiya on Tal

## Headline

founder @Jumbo

## About

3x founding team at consumer businesses with experience in product, growth, ops

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

aistudio

gemini

hermes agent

notion

openai

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at Jumbo, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Category Director at BlissClub, Jun 2022 \- Nov 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- New product & category development \- Planning, sourcing & quality

Business Head at Nestaway, Jan 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding member & business head of co\-living subsidiary \(www\.thehelloworld\.com\) \- Exited through M&A \- Scaled to $12M revenue run\-rate within year 1 of launch \- Achieved EBITDA profitability & \+ve free cashflows, contributing to 30%\+ to group revenue \- Scaled to 21 cities and 300\+ team members with an NPS of 75\+

Chief Of Staff at Nestaway, Jun 2018 \- Dec 2018 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, CoS to Founder; \- led new product development and initiatives \- launched co\-living & student housing products \- spun off into separate subsidiary backed by Tiger Global, Goldman Sachs & Chiratae

Investment Professional at Guild Capital, Jan 2017 \- May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai, \- Early stage investments in D2C & creator economy brands like HomeChef, CatchCo, Touche LA \- Founding member & Operations lead of growth\-stage investment banking practice \(www\.blackwatch\.io\)

Community Operations at Uber, Nov 2016 \- Jan 2017 · 3 mos, \- Strategy and planning for community operations for Uber India

## Education

Master’s Degree, Accounting and Finance, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Business/Management, R\.A\. Podar College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai

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