Aahlada Chennupati
Founder at The Artisan Variety
I run The Artisan Variety.
Founder, CEO, E-Commerce, Retail. Working on ideas from scratch over the last 10 years. I co-founded and ran ProductPlay as CEO. Worked with e-commerce teams at Walmart, Macy's, NorthFace, Electrolux and Kohls to integrate ProductPlay's video content on their websites. Presented ProductPlay's technology to a number of C-Level executives at some of the world's leading Retailers. Received accolades for explaining ProductPlay's technology in a simple and engaging presentation. Raised funding for ProductPlay from Plug and Play Ventures. I currently work on a social initiative, The Other Variety, an e-commerce website that aims to steer the branding on goods made by artisans and co-operatives from charitable to profitable.
The Artisan Variety
https://www.linkedin.com/company/theartisanvariety
Handcrafted home goods from artisans in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda. Bring handmade style to your living spaces with our carefully curated selection.
Mountain View, California
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Founder
ProductPlay Inc.
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At ProductPlay, we aggregated video content from YouTube about consumer products and provided curated videos to Retailers. Retailers embedded these videos on product pages using our APIs and increased user engagement and conversions. 
* Integrated Product Play’s video content on Walmart, North Face, Kohls, Electrolux and, Macy’s digital properties. 
* Presented ProductPlay's technology to a number of C-Level executives at some of the world's leading Retailers. 
* Raised funding for ProductPlay from Plug and Play Ventures.

As a founder, I wore many hats at ProductPlay. I was responsible for
* Finding product-market fit and go-to-market strategy for ProductPlay's technology.   
* Understanding the competitive landscape of content providers similar to ProductPlay for e-commerce retailers.
* Designed ProductPlay’s core products including algorithms for automated video aggregation, curation tools to manually judge and monitor videos, and dashboards for retailers. 
* Worked cross-functionally with Retailer's engineering, marketing and legal teams to integrate our technology.
* Analyzed data from pilots with Retailers to prioritize new features and to find new growth opportunities.
* Developed sales and marketing material to present ProductPlay's vision to potential customers.
* Managed a team of 5 employees and 15 freelancers.
* Visualizing ProductPlay's roadmap.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Co-Founder
MS
Engineering and Management
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Stanford University
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BE (Hons)
Courses were focused in Engineering, Math, Science, and Entrepreneurship.
Engineering
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Thrissur
Udaya. V Velayudhan
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San Francisco, CA
Toni Zernik
Freelance Photographer
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Los Angeles, CA
Sean Lawlor
Software Engineer | YC Alum | Former NASA Engineer
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Boston, MA
Nick Schneider
Sr. Account Executive at ClickUp
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Sunnyvale, CA
Lakshmi Suraparaju
Technical Program Manager
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York, PA
mark jordan
Construction Superintendent at JEM Group, LLC - Construction Services
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New York, NY
Pradeep Venugopal
Technical Architect at ADP
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Oakland, CA
Seppo Helava
Team leader: works best w/ 5-20 on project that forge new ground. Open to advisory roles only. (he/him)
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Nagari
Pavithra MA
Goal is to work in Pharmacovigilance domain
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Santa Clara, CA
Ian Buck
VP / General Manager, Tesla Data Center Business - NVIDIA
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Bengaluru
Lokesh Naidu
CXX at Confidential
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Greater Seattle Area
Mikhail Parakhin
President, Web Experiences at Microsoft
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Greater Seattle Area
Ganesh Rao
General Manager, Autonomous Systems, Investor / Advisor
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London
Anvith Varanasi
Innovation Consultant at Trade Tower - Incubation , Innovation, Acceleration
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdesaiheal
Los Angeles, CA
Nick Desai
Founder/CEO - HeyRenee.  Founder - Heal.  Mission-driven health-tech leader. Engineer. Inventor. Author. Speaker. Dad!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-harmon-34a66662
Denver, CO
Bryan Harmon
Helping Automotive service departments increase revenue and decrease vendor costs through automation.
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Portsmouth, NH
Mark Loranger
Co-founder @ Braavo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/premal
San Francisco, CA
Premal Shah
Enthusiast
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Portland, OR
Michael J Harrison
Co Founder at CommPlus Tech
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How The Artisan Variety found its mission, focus, and purpose.
Stanford Club of India
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Plug and Play Retail
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L'Oreal Women in Digital
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