Rohit Chandra
Founder of PopTop Corp
Rohit Chandra
Founder of PopTop Corp
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
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.