Dayananda Sagar Institutions
Bachelor of Engineering • Electronics and Communications Engineering
Vidyadhar Sharma
Founding Member at Stealth Startup
India
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Dayananda Sagar Institutions
Vidyadhar built India's first BNPL subscription to $2.5M ARR. Four zero-to-one products across fintech, ed-tech, and cybersecurity. 1.
CAREER STORIES
6 stories across 6 companies over 10+ years.
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Stealth Startup2025
Founding Member2025
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Simpl2025 – 2025
Associate Director of Product, Consumer Experience2025 – 2025
Head of Product & Growth for the consumer side of the platform at Simpl. Led the consumer pod consisting PMs, designers, growth marketers and engineers. - Built "Simpl Select", a membership/loyalty subscription business from zero to multi-million dollar ARR - Launched "Quests", a gamified milestone rewards program to make Simpl as the top-of-wallet choice - Established key partnership-led growth initiatives with top merchants like Swiggy & Zepto - Redefined consumer growth model to drive activation & retention initiatives - Revamped consumer experience on the Simpl app with over a dozen micro-projects
Senior Product Manager2024 – 2025
Product Manager2023 – 2024
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ThinkLink2020 – 2023
Head of Product2020 – 2023
Founding PM & engineer. Built multiple zero-to-one cybersecurity SaaS products. Grew portfolio to $250K ARR.
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Transcend Network2020 – 2020
Transcend Fellow, Winter 20202020 – 2020
The Transcend Fellowship is a selective program for early-stage founders building in education and the future of work.
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Speckbit Exploratories2016 – 2020
Founder & CEO2016 – 2020
Built a collaborative platform to discover & remix learning roadmaps. Bootstrapped to $200K ARR with coding bootcamps.
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Science Panorama2012 – 2014
Co-founder and CEO2012 – 2014
Built a advertising business with a e-magazine with over 60K subscribers and 1M+ monthly readers. Founded in high-school (at 16).
EDGES
Vidyadhar's core expertise and recurring patterns of excellence, backed by career evidence.
Discovered on ProfoundVidyadhar sees monetization opportunities where others see free features. He packaged existing Simpl features into a subscription when conventional wisdom said users wouldn't pay, proving the market wrong with $2.5M ARR. At ThinkLink, he built a free tool to fund a paid portfolio. The pattern is consistent: he finds the revenue angle that isn't obvious and validates it with conviction.
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Speckbit Bootcamp ModelEDUCATION
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Infantry Lines, Jamnagar