I help teams reach their potential.
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About Me
I’m an experienced Product and Growth Leader who has built and scaled over 10 startups from 0 to 1. I’m passionate about serving people who have historically been underserved by technology. I am obsessed with creating products that delight users and building teams to scale those products.
I grew up in Sri Lanka and came to the US for college. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur and was involved in many entrepreneurial adventures through high school and college. I chose to go to Stanford to be in the midst of tech entrepreneurship. After a brief stint in the East Coast for grad school at UPenn, I found myself back in the SF Bay Area, building an EdTech company called Piazza.
As part of the founding team at Piazza, I got to design and build most of Piazza's core product offering getting to product market fit fast. As Head of Product and Engineering, I built two more product lines for Piazza that achieved product market fit within 6 months. My role evolved to lead Sales and Customer Success helping Piazza scale revenue from tens of thousands to tens of millions.
After Piazza, I was a Founding Partner and Chief Product Officer at Rex, a Venture Studio focused on PropTech. At Rex I built 10 companies that targeted disrupting various aspects of real estate, ranging from Insurtech, Fintech, Blockchain, Big Data, and Vertical SaaS. I helped set the product strategy, hired the founding team, and guided each team through product market fit and scale.
I grew up in Sri Lanka and came to the US for college. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur and was involved in many entrepreneurial adventures through high school and college. I chose to go to Stanford to be in the midst of tech entrepreneurship. After a brief stint in the East Coast for grad school at UPenn, I found myself back in the SF Bay Area, building an EdTech company called Piazza.
As part of the founding team at Piazza, I got to design and build most of Piazza's core product offering getting to product market fit fast. As Head of Product and Engineering, I built two more product lines for Piazza that achieved product market fit within 6 months. My role evolved to lead Sales and Customer Success helping Piazza scale revenue from tens of thousands to tens of millions.
After Piazza, I was a Founding Partner and Chief Product Officer at Rex, a Venture Studio focused on PropTech. At Rex I built 10 companies that targeted disrupting various aspects of real estate, ranging from Insurtech, Fintech, Blockchain, Big Data, and Vertical SaaS. I helped set the product strategy, hired the founding team, and guided each team through product market fit and scale.
My Values
01
Obsession
I love solving problems for customers. I’m passionate about inventing and simplifying on their behalf. I hold my teams to a high standard when building solutions. I strive to get every detail right.
02
Ownership
I empower teams with autonomy and responsibility. I advocate for the ‘Genius of the AND’ where high quality and speed can coexist. I believe in highly collaborative teams with diverse opinions.
03
Empathy
I have great empathy for founders and early teammates. I enjoy translating the founders’ vision into actionable plans. I push teams beyond their comfort zone, but not to their breaking points.
Through my journey, I’ve really enjoyed being a servant leader for the companies I’m involved in. I strive to be an executing partner, not just a traditional advisor to founders.
Client Testimonials
Sunthar's ability to inspire and lead high performing teams is second to none. Under his leadership, our teams were able to build products & features and achieve results faster than anticipated. Sunthar builds strong connections with his teammates and is able to identify what truly motivates them. As a result, he creates an environment where his teams operate at peak performance.
Nikhail Singh
Partner at Rex
Sunthar is a 0-1 expert when it comes to Product thinking with a seasoned eye towards strategic interconnections that unlock new potential. His pedigree in building products and product teams is a very valuable and rare commodity that can help any company reach product market fit quickly and scale thereafter. He is quick to identify customer value and enables the team via strategy and execution to the deliver that customer value incrementally.
Prakash Mohandas
Co-founder and CEO at InsurePro
He was always quick to test and evaluate hypotheses when making crucial decisions during product iteration. It's rare for someone to be able to pinpoint exactly what makes customers tick across so many different business models. Sunthar's other superpower was building great teams that were efficient and effective.
Ethan Blumenthal
Co-founder and CEO at OwnProp
His strategic thinking, creative problem-solving skills, and data-driven approach helped my team grow from $0 to $2M+ in payments processed in 5 months and achieve a lot of success in our product development and go-to-market efforts. He played a pivotal role in defining our product vision and roadmap, as well as helping us execute our go-to-market strategy to achieve our growth targets.
Denver Lobo
Co-founder and CEO at PayUp
