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Rohit Chandra
Founder of PopTop Corp
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Rohit Chandra
Founder of PopTop Corp
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
Rohit Chandra is a seasoned entrepreneur and innovator based in Sunnyvale, California, known for founding and leading multiple successful startups like PopTop Corp and PymWym. With a background in technical leadership and product management, he has consistently demonstrated expertise in identifying new business opportunities and driving product development in the consumer internet and SaaS sectors.
Chandra's career highlights include founding and serving as CEO of companies like PopTop Corp and PymWym, showcasing his ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive innovation in early-stage startups across various industries.
Work Experience
Founder, CEO, VP Strategy & Licensing
2012 - Current
Inventor of the Personalized/Vanity URL (e.g. http://username.domain.com). Patent # 6,085,242 • Intellectual Property development and licensing. Successfully marketed, and created bidding war on a million$ patent-portfolio including the very largest companies in the world, contingency law firms, NPEs, patent-trolls, investors, et al. • Managed multiple life-cycles (all pro-se): conception of idea, provisional, prosecution, office-actions, Petitions, AESD, PTAB appeals, rejections (101, 102, 103, 112..), responses, appeals, grants, continuations, divisional, maintenance fee, monetization: licensing, auction, sale, carve-outs, litigation funding, contract negotiation, deal terms, royalties et. al. • Enforcement with claim charts, EoU, damages analysis, infringement contentions, etc. Numerous issued patents in #SaaS, #mobile, #web #search, content #curation, #widgets, #socialnetworking, #highlighting, and personalized Internet. Additional patents pending.
Founder, CEO, VP Products & Strategy
2014 - 2016
Out-of-the-box, innovative new business process/model for the $450 billion recruiting market in the B2B2C space (much like Uber disrupted taxis & Airbnb disrupted hoteling) • Conceptualized & created cloud based SaaS for enterprise software. Gathered business requirements (two-sided talent acquisition market), developed business case, BRDs, FRDs, PRDs, feature requests, Wireframes (InVision), UI/UX design, GTM, Strategy, API, functional specifications, User/System flows, architecture, technology stack selection, implementation… • Personified user roles and profiles: user stories. Focus Groups. Analytics. Researched & quantified TAM; on an ongoing basis gathered competitive intelligence, customer research, changes to landscape, new offerings…. • Responsible for creating sales enablement, analytics, demand generation content/campaigns. Developed marketing collateral, explainer videos... • Work with Engg & Sales/Marketing to co-ordinate release cycles, customer deliveries, and onboarding of new customers (including staging & demos).
Founder, CEO, VP Products & Strategy
2006 - 2014
Arguably the first content curation service: Yellow highlighter for web pages. (Pre-dates Pinterest: does for text on web pages what Pinterest does for images on web pages.) • Product & Business Owner: responsible for Strategy, Roadmap, Pricing, Go To Market, A/B testing, channel development, eco-system (API & developer initiatives), market positioning, differentiation, prioritization of feature requests, use-cases, usability-studies, defect management. Managed multiple products (suite) end to end: translated business/end-user needs/requirements into product specifications for major/minor releases based upon market/customer needs analysis. Conceived, spec-ed, proof-of-concept, developed, evangelized and delivered in an agile environment. • Enterprise win: Achieved 250,000+ in-bound links from 3rd-party websites without offering any out-bound links: thanks to obsessive attention to detail & user-experience. Created an innovative, viral, cross-domain AJAX, web-button that allows enterprises/publishers to make their websites highlight-able (SaaS API dev) with 24x7 SLA. Empowered publishers to include a widget that automatically displays latest highlights as a real-time ticker (highlight stream) on their own web page, blog, etc. • Consumer win: Successfully launched & grew what-became the 7th most popular app on the Google toolbar (from over 25,000+ competing apps). Designed, branded, spec-ed and deployed complex B2C web2.0 app & B2B SaaS for tens of millions of users.
Founder, Managing Director
2008 - 2012
• Sourced, evaluated, analyzed, and performed due diligence of new investment/assets. Market research. Structure and negotiate contracts/agreements with banks(REOs), contractors, management cos. Divesture of under-performing and over-performing assets. Multimillion dollar portfolio. Deep domain expertise.
Talk Show Host & Producer
2009 - 2010
• Talk Radio Show on mentoring entrepreneurs. Fielded live Q&A from entrepreneurs, on-the-spot insights/advice. Listened to scores of startup pitches. Coterie of exclusive guests included multi-billion$ exit founders: - raised $250 million in equity financing - sold companies for $2 Billion - IPO-ed company at multi, multi billion dollar valuation - founded 8 venture backed startups - Partner at class A Sand Hill Rd VC fund - Angel investor - multi billion dollar Fund Manager etc.
GlobeTrotter & Willy-Nilly Traveler
2001 - 2006
Traveled the world: visited ~50 countries. Met, greeted, ate and got to know a lot of the various local peoples.
Founder, CEO, VP Products & Strategy
1997 - 2001
Arguably the 1st Social Network ever: • Launched a complex system that created the very first Social Networking website ever: as a self-populating, self-updating address book (ala LinkedIn/Facebook). The service successfully grew and served millions of users. • Developed a SOA for Software as a Service (SaaS) that enabled enterprise customers (B2B, B2B2C) to have completely hosted SSO-Identity solutions for eCode-enabled forms (ala Facebook connect); cloud-storage; cloud-photos; AutoLogin; AutoFill; eWallet; PURLs etc. using asynchronous JavaScript before AJAX was invented.
Founder, CEO, VP Business Development
1994 - 1998
Professional Services & Human Capital Co. • Built revenues from zero to $5,000,000+ annually. Was responsible for entire Sales & Marketing, Recruiting, Accounting, HR, Billing, Collections, Taxation, Immigration, Legal, corp compliance, and all aspects of Corp Governance. Established Corp Policies, Continuing Education, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, 401(k) plans... • Negotiated deals with customers/resellers. Struck Strategic Alliances, Accreditations with Corporate Partners (like InstallShield) to further the Sales effort through increased channel credibility & brand recognition.