Rizwan Ansary
CEO, Zeros
San Francisco, California
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$10,000.00Max Investment:
$25,000.00Target Investment:
$10,000.00
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Work Experience
2020
Founder/CEO
2020
Building the last dating app SaaS buyers will ever need to 'speed date' all their software options before finally committing to a long-term relationship with that special SaaS someone.
2020 - 2020
Consultant, Product Led Growth
2020 - 2020
Complex product, Easy onboarding
2019 - 2020
VP, Product & Design
2019 - 2020
Direct mail/gifting. Physical warehouses. ROI attribution.
2017 - 2019
Director Growth & Product
2017 - 2019
Dev tools marketplace.
2017 - 2018
Product Lead, $ubscriptions & Pricing
2017 - 2018
All things monetization. Iterated pricing towards profitable unit economics. Launched subscription plan.
2016 - 2017
Product Lead
2016 - 2017
Seamless credit card applications (despite banks and their lawyers). Reset iOS/Android apps, rated 4.8/5. 140 MM users globally.
2016 - 2016
Angel Investor
2016 - 2016
SaaS, AI, Fintech. Seed through Series A. Portfolio → Flex, Model ML, ReflexAI, Ninjatech, Kinship, Jericho Security, Advocate, Andi, Cosine, Leap, Unify, PocketPod, Sailplane, Tome, Mercury, Databricks. I don’t invest outside US, real estate, or Hollywood.
2014 - 2016
Director of Product and Growth
2014 - 2016
I headed growth of the developer community at HackerRank. Our team improved the onboarding and delivered on initiatives related to activation and retention. I led a team of engineers, designers, content curators, and data analysts to design and ship engaging experiences for skill improvement and testing.
2009 - 2014
Senior PM
2011 - 2014
This is a product leadership role on the PM team for Bing Image and Video search. I managed parts of the product as it went through hyper growth improving query share 3x and relevance DCG manifold. I have driven areas across the breadth of market segments, covering the entire depth of the technology stack from UX components to ranking, indexing and low-latency content serving architectures. Among areas that I have owned: 1. Search Recommendations (Related Searches & Autocomplete) Incepted the product area and grew the team into a growth hacking unit. Leveraged the latest innovation in data science and graph theory to differentiate against Google. Delivered search market share that elevated the feature area as the top contributor. Awarded Gold star for contributions. More details under 'Projects'. 2. Real-time Search All up owner for the real-time search product. Organized and managed a team of developers, designers, researchers, QA engineers and operations specialists. More details under 'Projects'. 3. Superfresh Index and Serving Infrastructure Built v1 and consolidated it further with improved search quality. Shipped machine learning based models for selection, ranking and query classification. 4. Search by Usage Rights We have made it easier for the blogger community to find images with appropriate usage rights to use in blogs. 5. Microsoft Office Inline Search Led the Office-Bing integration for image and video search. Details under 'Projects'.
Engineer
2009 - 2011
File Server Clusters – Worked on distributed file replication. Implemented perf benchmarks and workloads.
2009 - 2009
Course Author, Monetization Growth
2009 - 2009
I created this program because there is a shortage of hands on quality resources to learn one the most intricate building blocks of our craft: monetization. This course focusses on financial metrics, profitability, UX design, psychology and last but not the least, general product design.