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title: "Vinay Sharma - Product in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Vinay Sharma, 0-to-1 category discovery · Found 5 categories — now ₹50 Cr+/month | Engagement & Retention | ex-Tata Motors based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and notebooklm."
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# Vinay Sharma on Tal

## Headline

0\-to\-1 category discovery · Found 5 categories — now ₹50 Cr\+/month \| Engagement & Retention \| ex\-Tata Motors

## About

I find categories before the market does\. At Porter, I've discovered five new vehicle categories the company hadn't mapped — pairing demand signals from deep user research with supply feasibility I can read from years inside commercial vehicles — and turned them into ₹50 Cr\+ in combined monthly GMV\. I'm a product manager with 9 years in marketplace and logistics, and my work lives where most PMs don't go: the seam between supply and demand\. Uncovering latent user needs is half the job; knowing whether the supply side — vehicles, drivers, unit economics — can actually deliver is the other half\. Most PMs only see the first half\. I see both, and that's the difference\. A few things I’ve helped build and shipped at Porter: \- Five 0\-to\-1 categories — Mini 3W scaled ₹1\.2 Cr → ₹25 Cr/month in 8 months; Outstation, a shelved category, revived ₹5 Cr → ₹14 Cr/month in 6 months\. \- The PMF\-validation playbook the product org now runs its discovery on\. \- 2,000\+ driver interviews across 25\+ studies — user research at a depth that's rare at this level\. Right now I'm deep in the supply side using data and ML — lifting driver\-partner utilization, predicting and reducing new\-partner churn, and rebuilding the fairness of our automated suspension engine\. Same instinct as the category work: find the real problem, size it, then build\. My fluency comes from the initial five years at Tata Motors, where I went from Associate Product Manager to Senior Product Manager – Strategy on a fast\-track path through sales, product development, planning, product\-line finance, and new ventures\. It's why I can hold the whole picture at once — read a P&L, sit with a customer, and judge whether supply can deliver, often in the same week\. Along the way I owned the end\-to\-end development of Tata Ace Gasoline, from customer research to launch; it grew to 35%\+ of Tata's small\-commercial\-vehicle mix\. Always happy to talk about marketplace, logistics, or anywhere supply\-demand dynamics and 0\-to\-1 bets matter\. 📩 itisvinaysharma@gmail\.com

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

notebooklm

notion

claudecode

## Work experience

Product at Porter, Sep 2026 \- Present · 1 mo, Bangalore

Lead Product Researcher at Porter, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, Leading end\-to\-end category discovery for Porter's on\-demand logistics \(intra and inter\-city\) — from identifying to launching, scaling, and sustaining healthy supply, driven by data, ML, and user insights\. • Discovering driver\-partner utilisation via an opportunity\-solution tree; scoping ML to fix a 52%\-accuracy suspension engine \(MVP in design\) and 40% new\-partner 3\-month churn\. • Discovered & launched Porter's first two unmapped vehicle categories \(9ft Pickup, E\-Loader EV\) by pairing latent\-demand signals from user research with commercial\-vehicle supply\-feasibility analysis\. • Codified the white space mapping into Porter's PMF\-validation playbook, now the org\-wide discovery standard \(since extended by the team to 17ft and 19ft\)\. • Discovered Mini 3W and 14ft Pickup off that playbook: Mini 3W scaled ₹1\.2 Cr → ₹25 Cr/month in 8 months \(Porter's fastest category ramp\); 9ft and 14ft each crossed ₹10\+ Cr/month within 6 months\. • Revived Outstation, a shelved inter\-city category, by re\-diagnosing its PMF gap and reworking pricing and serviceability — ₹5 Cr → ₹14 Cr/month in 6 months\. • Ran 2,000\+ driver interviews across 25\+ studies to size latent demand before build; lead a 4\-person research team\. Combined, these launches contribute ₹50 Cr\+ in monthly GMV\.

Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives at Porter, Jan 2023 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Built Porter's supply\-side growth engine — a new OEM\-driven driver\-acquisition channel from scratch — and ran the category research that seeded Porter's Trucks expansion\. • Built Porter's OEM partnership channel from zero — 5 OEM tie\-ups with API integrations and joint GTM — driving 300\+ driver onboardings/month across 15 cities at ₹0 CAC\. • Lifted dedicated driver\-partner share by 5pp and secured OEM launch\-plan and vehicle\-sales data now feeding Porter's onboarding\-funnel and market\-share planning\. • Ran data\-driven research on existing category offerings and recommended a strategic recategorization — identifying \~30% whitespace in market coverage that seeded Porter's new\-category roadmap\.

Senior Product Manager \- Strategy at Tata Motors, Oct 2021 \- Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Fast\-tracked onto Tata's New Ventures track — handpicked to own 0\-to\-1 product bets beyond the core vehicle business\. • Developed a D2C platform helping 2000\+ drivers become self\-employed truck owners by leading a 11\-person cross\-functional team, authored 50\+ PRDs, shipped the MVP app, and 10\+ institutional MoUs\. • Shaped Tata's new\-generation small commercial EV concept — turning customer, cost, and use\-case insight into an early product definition for a category Tata hadn't yet entered\. • Selected onto the strategic\-initiatives track by VP & ED leadership \(2021\) — the group tasked with product bets outside the core portfolio\.

Senior Manager \- Product Line Finance, CBO’s Office at Tata Motors, Aug 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 3 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Owned the commercial lens on the product portfolio — ran monthly profitability analysis across the live lineup, and identified levers to make Small Commercial Vehicle business EBITDA positive\.

Product Manager \- Planning & Configuration at Tata Motors, May 2020 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Owned portfolio and platform strategy for Tata's Small Commercial Vehicle line \(<2T\)\. • Defined a 5\-year product roadmap with 7 Product launches unlocking 15% incremental market coverage and cutting time\-to\-market 18% via a modularity / platform\-architecture approach\. • Ran market\-research studies to map the customer needs hierarchy, paired it with competitive benchmarking and global\-OEM architecture tear\-downs to identify white spaces and Product attributes\. • Drove cross\-functional decisions on portfolio plans and architecture options, owning deliverables from kickoff through product\-concept freeze\.

Research & Framework Design at Development Environergy Services Limited, May 2016 \- Jun 2016 · 2 mos, New Delhi Area, India, Solid Waste segregation and Waste to Energy • Built a framework for electricity generation from Municipal solid waste by converting it to a Refused derived fuel \(RDF\) using different segregation techniques\. • Conducted a Flue gas flow analysis in boiler \(using Solidworks fluent software\) for designing the boiler pipes in order to optimize the boiler performance used in thermal power plant\.

Research & 3D Modeling at Himachal Road Transport Corporation \(HRTC\), May 2015 \- Jun 2015 · 2 mos, Himachal Pradesh, India, Interned at an Automobile Workshop to develop a deeper understanding of after\-sales service\. I studied Cummins V6 Engine \(used in 24 seater Tata Buses\) part by part and designed a model of same in Solidworks design software to improve my design skills\.

## Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

Higher Secondary Education, Non Medical, kendriya vidyalaya

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