tharun

tharun

founder

About

20 y.o. — currently building new consumer social apps.

I like crafting delightful consumer products — preferably in the orbit of social, media, marketplaces and games. I founded & sold my first startup at the age of sixteen.

I love meeting people who work on cool ideas. So drop me a line if there could be a spark!

Work Experience

2021 — 2023
Growth, Storytelling, Design
NYC / LA / SF

Worked on product virality, product design, product positioning, creative content strategy and special projects for clients such as Instagram, Snapchat, Coinbase, and Genies, to name a few.

2021 — 2022
Co-Founder at Presence

A social network contrary to the present ones. Exploration around the idea of shared real-time spaces.

2021 — 2021
Co-founder at Next Leap

Built a student upskilling app to help students learn, earn & network — LinkedIn for Gen-Z.

Grew the beta app to 50k+ users & designed and experimented with various features.

2019 — 2020
Founder at Dart (acq'd)
Bangalore, India

Marketplace for live courses. My first startup when I was 16 years old.

Side Projects

2022
Design Ideas

Archive of all the design ideas I share on Twitter.

Contact

Twitter
Reply (AMA)
Instagram