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title: "Venkatesh Potharajula - Founding Product Manager in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Venkatesh Potharajula, Product Management | IIT Kanpur based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and gemini."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/venkat/share-image"
---

# Venkatesh Potharajula on Tal

## Headline

Product Management \| IIT Kanpur

## About

Obsessed with turning 'what if' into 'what's next' in product\. I thrive on connecting user needs with business wins, rallying teams to build stuff that matters\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

codex

gemini

langchain

openai

replit

## Work experience

Founding Product Manager at Blinkmoney, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 y 9 mo, Remote, Building lending and wealth products

Product Management at Honasa Consumer Ltd\., May 2024 \- Nov 2024 · 7 mos, Post purchase product management for 5 Brands of Honasa Consumer Private Limited 1\. Mamaearth 2\. The Derma Co 3\. BBlunt 4\. Aqualogica and 5\. Dr\. Sheth's

Associate Product Manager at KNAB Finance Advisors pvt ltd, Sep 2022 \- Apr 2024 · 1 y 7 mo, Delhi, LOS, LMS, Sales and Growth Loan Against Mutual Funds\(LAMF\) Loan Against Shares\(LAS\) Loan Against Bonds\(LAB\) Partners \- KFintech, CAMS, NSDL and CDSL

PM Fellow at Unlearn Product, Jun 2022 \- Aug 2022 · 3 mos, – An exclusive community\-based cohort of 15 members with a highly selective 10% acceptance rate – Published 8 Product assignments focused on first\-principle thinking, product strategy and user research – Worked on increasing the builder cloud wallet recharge from 10% to 50% along with PMs from Builder\.ai and secured third position on the Demo Day\.

Manager, Hospitality \- Udgosh at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Jun 2019 \- Oct 2019 · 5 mos, – Spearheaded a team of 100\+ junior executives to organise 22 sports events in a 4\-day sports festival – Contacted 200\+ colleges to invite the best sportspersons in the country to the biggest sports festival – Successfully conducted the festival with a footfall of 15,000\+ people from different parts of the country

## Education

Bachelor of Science \- BS, Mathematics and Scientific computing, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

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