Vikram Shetty

Applied: PMRank #7 of 45 PM applicantssquad_2@pg27.mesaschool.cono phone found08_vikram_shetty.pdf

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The candidate is a venture builder with over six years of experience as part of a founding team and CTO & New Ventures, building and scaling modular infrastructure products across healthcare, education, and agritech. The candidate earned a review-band score primarily due to demonstrating complete sole ownership with no layer in between, having owned end-to-end product development and commercial outcomes across multiple venture lines, supported by their work designing asset-light manufacturing and supply chain models. Their biggest gap against the rubric is a lack of direct, hands-on freight logistics operational experience, coupled with customer discovery that targeted institutional buyers rather than frontline operational workers.

Probe in interview

Can you describe a specific time when you were directly responsible for managing ground-level freight, dispatch, or warehouse operations, and walk through the daily operational problems you personally resolved?
Can you share a specific example of an execution playbook or operational tool you built from observed workflow pain, detailing the exact metrics or evidence showing how peers or field teams adopted it?
Can you walk through an instance where you conducted discovery directly with frontline operations workers or truck drivers rather than institutional decision-makers, and explain how their direct feedback altered your product decisions?

PM rubric (applied role)68.0 / 100Review

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
PM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	3/5	30%	18	Designed asset-light manufacturing and supply chain model to accelerate scale and reduce capital intensity.	Shows involvement in designing supply chain models and working with vendors/field ops, but lacks evidence of personally doing hands-on freight/logistics operations work.
PM-2 Builds from observed pain; peers adopt it	3/5	20%	12	Created standardized configurations and execution playbooks to support scalable expansion.	Built execution playbooks and modular solutions from observed operational gaps, but adoption details by specific named peers or external teams are limited.
PM-3 Sole ownership with no layer in between	5/5	20%	20	Owned end-to-end development from opportunity identification to execution and early revenue.	Sole ownership across multiple venture lines (Medicab, Educab, Agricab) with commercial outcomes and revenue directly attributed.
PM-4 Discovery directly with operators	3/5	15%	9	Conducted 100+ customer conversations to validate demand, pricing, and product direction.	Conducted extensive discovery conversations, but focused on institutional buyers, schools, and partners rather than frontline operations workers.
PM-5 Candour: kills, post-mortems, owning what went wrong	3/5	15%	9	Led pivot from B2C to B2B, unlocking scalable enterprise demand.	Mentions a major business pivot and go/no-go decisions, but lacks an explicit post-mortem, failure, or outage with documented lessons learned.

SPM rubric (other role)61.0 / 100Review

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
SPM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	3/5	25%	15	Led cross-functional execution across engineering, manufacturing, vendors, and field operations.	Shows experience coordinating field operations and supply chain in an adjacent modular infrastructure context, but lacks direct hands-on logistics operations work.
SPM-2 Senior-most owner, no one above them in the function	5/5	25%	25	CTO & New Ventures \| 2019 – 2025	Served as CTO and founding team leader reporting only to the CEO/COO, with senior-most ownership of business and technology pivots attributed to them.
SPM-3 Turns fixes into standing practice	3/5	20%	12	Created standardized configurations and execution playbooks to support scalable expansion.	Built standardized playbooks and systems adopted for rollout, but provides no evidence that these practices run independently without their presence.
SPM-4 Judgement under pressure, stated plainly	2/5	15%	6	Made rapid go or no-go decisions, prioritizing high-potential opportunities.	Presents generic claims about making go/no-go decisions under pressure without naming specific hard calls, trade-offs, or failures.
SPM-5 Grows people who then get promoted	1/5	15%	3	none	No evidence of mentoring internal reports or team members receiving promotions.

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Chennai,India | | | LinkedIn
Venture Builder | 0→1 Company Creation | Built Multi-Sector Businesses to $30M+
SUMMARY
Venture builder with 6+ years as part of the founding team at Modulus Housing, scaling the company to $30M+ revenue
and supporting a $8.5M fundraise.
Built and scaled multiple ventures across healthcare, education, and agritech, leading new business creation from
opportunity identification to market deployment.
Operate at the intersection of market selection, business model design, and execution, with a focus on building scalable
ventures in complex environments.
EXPERIENCE
Modulus Housing | CTO & New Ventures | 2019 – 2025
Built multiple ventures from scratch as part of the founding team, working directly with the CEO and COO to take
businesses from zero to market and scale.
Venture Portfolio
Medicab - Rapid deploying Healthcare Infrastructure
• Delivered 1000+ deployments across hospitals and public sector clients.
• Generated $12M+ revenue, establishing Medicab as a primary growth driver.
• Enabled 50% faster deployment timelines using patented modular technology.
• Built business model, product architecture, and execution systems for mission-critical environments.
Educab - Education Infrastructure
• Identified a gap in scalable infrastructure where traditional construction was slow and capital-intensive for institutional
expansion.
• Built modular solutions aligned to procurement cycles and budget constraints, improving adoption across schools and
labs.
• Addressed adoption barriers by introducing phased deployment models, reducing upfront investment and accelerating
decision-making.
• Designed modular, repeatable deployment systems enabling multi-location rollout.
• Created standardized configurations and execution playbooks to support scalable expansion.
Agricab - Agritech Micro Infrastructure
• Scaled to 100+ locations via partnerships with agri groups and cooperatives.
• Enabled farmers to build micro-enterprises and D2C products from existing produce.
• Introduced partner-led financing model to reduce upfront cost barriers.
• Built ecosystem partnerships to enable rural adoption.
Venture Creation, Scaling & Execution
• Owned end-to-end development from opportunity identification to execution and early revenue.
• Led cross-functional execution across engineering, manufacturing, vendors, and field operations.
• Built and scaled a 30+ member cross-functional team across multiple ventures.
• Conducted 100+ customer conversations to validate demand, pricing, and product direction.
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Strategic Decisions & Business Building
• Owned commercial outcomes and revenue performance across key business lines
• Led pivot from B2C to B2B, unlocking scalable enterprise demand.
• Designed asset-light manufacturing and supply chain model to accelerate scale and reduce capital intensity.
• Introduced financing innovation to unlock adoption in price-sensitive markets.
• Made rapid go or no-go decisions, prioritizing high-potential opportunities.
• Prioritized and allocated resources across multiple ventures based on traction, market potential, and scalability
VENTURE ADVISORY
Advisor - Early-Stage Founders | IIT Startup Ecosystem
• Helped founders move from idea to MVP through rapid prototyping and validation.
• Guided business model, pricing, and go-to-market decisions.
• Evaluated early-stage ideas and guided founders on venture viability, prioritization, and go/no-go decisions.
CORE CAPABILITIES
0→1 Venture Creation and Company Building
Market Opportunity Identification and Validation
Business Model Design and Commercial Scaling
Execution and Scaling in Complex Operating Environments
Asset-Light Growth and Partnership-Led Expansion
Cross-Functional Leadership across Product, Engineering, and Operations
TOOLS & BUILD STACK
Notion, Jira, Miro
Excel and Google Sheets for business modeling and analysis
Cursor and Generative AI tools for rapid prototyping, automation, and workflow design
EDUCATION
B.E. Mechanical Engineering
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India