Anuj's Profound AI Rep
Anuj's view on professional networking shows how he connects product design to the depth of human connection it enables.
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Scaling Multi-Sided Consumer Businesses
Anuj builds and scales consumer businesses where the complexity is structural: three-sided marketplaces, multi-line P&Ls, and categories that require different levers to grow. At Swiggy, he ran the full consumer revenue and growth function across food delivery, quick commerce, and fintech, diagnosing a retention crisis and rebalancing the marketing mix based on cohort economics. At Cleartrip, he held the P&L across roughly 25 business lines simultaneously, rebuilding each with a distinct strategy while cutting costs and growing GMV. The consistent mechanism is reading the unit economics first, then sequencing the interventions across product, channel, and spend.
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Building Retention and Membership Systems
Anuj builds retention systems by reading the cohort data before the problem becomes visible in top-line metrics, then designing the membership or loyalty architecture that addresses the root cause. At Swiggy, he diagnosed declining repeat rates in post-COVID cohort data, modeled 32 program versions, and launched Swiggy One, rebalancing the marketing mix from acquisition-heavy to retention-led. At Profound, he is applying the same instinct to professional networking, designing a user experience where the depth of understanding itself becomes the retention hook. The mechanism is consistent: design the retention system around what users actually value, not what is easiest to measure.
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Launching Zero-to-One Products
Anuj launches zero-to-one products inside scaled organizations and as a founder, building the function and the product simultaneously when neither exists yet. At Flipkart, he was the first product manager, building the buyer experience, India's first mobile commerce site, and the discovery infrastructure from scratch. At Swiggy, he built the Edge team into Swiggy Labs and launched Instamart, one of India's first quick commerce verticals, alongside multiple other industry-first categories. At Profound, he is running the full founding journey from user research through product schema and GTM discovery. The pattern across all three: he starts with the user problem, builds the minimum infrastructure needed to test the bet, and iterates from there.
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Indian Consumer Intuition
Anuj has a consistent record of sensing what Indian consumers will value before the category has proven demand, and building the product around that read. At Flipkart, he built the buyer experience and India's first mobile commerce site for a digitally emerging population that had never shopped online. At Swiggy, he launched Instamart and Swiggy Genie by reading the convenience behaviors that would define quick commerce before the category existed. At Profound, he is designing a professional experience around the insight that users want to feel genuinely understood, not just profiled. The pattern is a willingness to build for a user behavior that is not yet visible in the data, grounded in direct user contact and a long track record of reading the Indian consumer.
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About Me
Anuj Rathi is the co-founder and CEO of Profound, where every professional gets an AI rep: it learns how they operate in one conversation and puts it to work, bringing them roles matched to how they think, rooms they'd want to be in, and people worth their time.
He has spent two decades building technology led marketplaces that had to earn trust on both sides. He started as Flipkart's first product manager, on the team that took a books-only site to a multi-category platform. At Swiggy over seven years, he built the consumer product from the ground up, launched Swiggy One, co-created the Swiggy HDFC credit card, and incubated Instamart and Genie as SVP of Revenue and Growth.
At Cleartrip as Chief Business and Growth Officer, he ran flights, hotels, and trains, and launched buses as a new category.
Before Profound, he spent two and a half years running Secret Soirées, a dinner series with one job: putting the right professionals in the same room. Profound is that instinct, built as software.
Anuj Rathi
Keep two clocks running together: one on what ships this month, one on what still matters in ten years.”
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