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Vidyadhar Sharma
About Me
Vidyadhar Sharma is a full-stack product leader with 12 years of experience turning ambiguous problems into new products across consumer fintech, cybersecurity, education, media, and applied AI.
He is Head of Product and Applied AI at profound.me, where he is exploring professional identity in an AI-native world. His work covers context engineering, full-stack prototyping, and new workflows for product teams building with AI.
At Simpl, he led consumer growth and monetization with full P&L ownership. He launched India's first BNPL membership subscription and scaled it from $0 to $2.4M ARR, while also shaping activation, retention, rewards, and partnership-led growth.
At ThinkLink, he designed a three-product cybersecurity portfolio and a free-to-paid GTM motion that reached $250K ARR in 12 months. Earlier, he bootstrapped Speckbit to $200K ARR and built Science Panorama to over a million page views.

Vidyadhar Sharma
Experience


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

Founding PM & engineer. Built multiple zero-to-one cybersecurity SaaS products. Grew portfolio to $250K ARR.



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