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Senior PM with 8+ years scaling products at massive scale. Led product at ShareChat (180M MAU), Al Jazeera, and launched Moj (160M MAU) - India's TikTok alternative - to 10M users in 7 days. Currently building AI at Vestra.

8+

Years building products

$5B+

In product valuations

$6M+

Measurable impact

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Ankur Shrivastava

Hi, I'm Ankur

I lead product and growth at Vestra AI, where we're building an AI agent platform that lets anyone create agents through natural language — no code, no complex workflows. I got us to 1,000+ users organically, pre-funding.

Before this, I built and shut down SuperMindMaps AI, a GenAI-powered mind mapping tool. I killed it the week Google's NotebookLM shipped the same feature. Knowing when to stop is as important as knowing what to build.

I spent 5 years at ShareChat (180M MAU), where I grew their PWA to 1M daily users from search, owned authentication across three products, and ran 100+ experiments. When TikTok got banned, I was one of five PMs who launched Moj — we hit 10M users in a week.

I also spent two years at Al Jazeera, improving engagement by 300% and establishing their AI lab for editorial workflows.

I've built my own agentic workflows with eval systems to 10x my productivity.

Impact

Measurable outcomes

390M+

Total users

Across India's largest social platforms

$6M+

Business impact

SEO, growth & monetization

7 days

App launch

0 to 10M users for India's #1 short-video app

100+

Experiments

Data-driven decisions

60M MAU

Al Jazeera scale

Platform growth contribution

300%

Session time

Engagement lift at Al Jazeera (global news)

15%

Funnel lift

Login optimization impact

3000+

Zero-budget users

Vestra organic acquisition

Quantifiable results from building and scaling products across consumer tech, media, and AI.

Case Studies

Deep dives into key projects

Tap to expand for full context, approach, and learnings.

Context

When TikTok was banned in India overnight, 200M users were left without their favorite app. ShareChat (India's largest regional social network) saw an opportunity to capture this market with a new short-video app called Moj.

My Role

1 of 5 founding PMs. Owned authentication, instrumentation, and core user flows.

Challenge

7-day timeline from zero codebase to public launch. Regulatory uncertainty. No existing short-video infrastructure.

Approach

  • Leveraged existing ShareChat content library to bootstrap content supply
  • Phone + OTP authentication first for fastest user onboarding
  • Consumption-only MVP - no creation features in v1
  • Parallel workstreams: I focused on auth while others handled feed and playback

Result

10M users in week 1. 50% organic acquisition. Became India's #1 short-video app with 160M+ monthly users today.

Key Learning

Speed beats features in a land grab. Perfect is the enemy of shipped.

Context

Marketing was spending millions on user acquisition, but a significant portion was dropping off at the authentication step.

My Role

Led growth experiments for authentication and onboarding flows.

Challenge

High drop-off at login. Unknown root cause. Needed to improve conversion without disrupting existing users.

Approach

  • Deep funnel analysis revealed 50% of traffic were returning users landing in sign-up flows
  • Implemented device ID fingerprinting to detect returning users
  • Built smart routing: returning users sent to login, new users to sign-up
  • A/B tested across different user segments and traffic sources

Result

15% login improvement translating to 7.5% DAU lift. Saved millions in wasted CAC.

Key Learning

The best growth lever is often removing friction, not adding features. Data segmentation reveals hidden opportunities.

Context

ShareChat (India's largest regional social network with 180M+ app users) had zero web presence. This meant missing a huge organic discovery opportunity from Google Search.

My Role

Led SEO strategy from scratch. Defined technical architecture and content strategy.

Challenge

No existing web infrastructure. Content in 14+ Indian languages. Needed to compete with established players like Pinterest and YouTube.

Approach

  • Prioritized 9 languages based on search volume and content supply analysis
  • Defined programmatic landing page strategy for trending and evergreen content
  • Partnered with engineering on technical SEO requirements (SSR, hreflang, Core Web Vitals)
  • Established ranking dashboards and weekly SEO health reviews with the team

Result

1M daily active users from Google organic. $6M equivalent traffic value. Outranked Pinterest for vernacular content.

Key Learning

Technical SEO at scale requires thinking like a search engine. Vernacular content is massively underserved.

Context

Mind maps and Gen AI existed separately, but no product merged visual learning with AI-powered exploration.

My Role

Solo Founder. Built the entire product from scratch - design, development, and growth.

Challenge

Create an intuitive interface where users could explore topics deeply through AI-generated mind maps without getting lost in chat threads.

Approach

  • Built web-based mind map editor with AI node generation
  • Enabled infinite exploration - expand any node into subtopics
  • Grew to 300+ users through organic channels
  • Monitored competitive landscape continuously

Result

300+ users acquired. When Google Notebook LM launched similar features, made the strategic call to sunset rather than compete with Google's distribution.

Key Learning

Knowing when to stop is as important as knowing when to start. Competing with Google on their core AI products isn't a winnable game.

Context

AI tools require coding knowledge or complex workflows. Regular users are locked out of building custom automations.

My Role

Founding Product Lead. Defining product vision and building core platform.

Challenge

Make AI agent creation as simple as having a conversation. Integrate with existing tools via MCP protocol.

Approach

  • Natural language agent creation - describe what you want, get a working agent
  • MCP integrations for Gmail, Slack, Google Sheets, and more
  • Evals for AI Agents improvement - systematic evaluation to measure and enhance agent performance
  • I prototype before writing specs - build to learn, not spec to build
  • Weekly iteration cycles with active user feedback

Result

1,500+ agents created. 94% weekly retention. 900+ active users and growing.

Key Learning

The best product spec is a working prototype. Users will tell you what they need through behavior.
Experience

8+ years of building

CurrentJul 2025 - Present

Vestra AI

Product & Growth

India (Remote)

94% weekly retention1,500+ agents3000+ users

Building AI-native workspace for non-technical users to create agents via plain text

May 2025 - Jul 2025

SuperMindMaps AI

Founder

India (Remote)

GenAI Mind MapsNextJS + Gemini API

AI-powered platform visualizing hidden connections between concepts

Feb 2023 - Jul 2025

Al Jazeera Media Network

Senior Product Manager (via Virtasant)

Texas, US (Remote)

300% session time16% retention liftFounded AJ Labs

Led product for one of the world's largest news organizations — Content discovery, AI governance, Privacy (GDPR/CCPA)

Sep 2020 - Jan 2023

ShareChat

Product Manager

Bangalore, India

10M users week 12.5% retention lift$37k cost savings

Co-led Moj iOS launch (India's #1 short-video app post-TikTok ban), authentication, deep-linking, performance

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

ShareChat

Senior Product Analyst

Bangalore, India

1M DAU from SEO$6M organic value$500k/mo saved

Technical SEO across 9 languages for India's largest regional social network (180M+ users), A/B testing platform

Testimonials

Colleague feedback

Recommendations from managers, engineers, designers, and cross-functional partners I've worked with

Manager
Ankur is one of the most dependable and sincere PMs out there. On Moj, he worked on a wide variety of complex problems, was able to hustle and get things done. He is a kind and well liked PM — all his peers across functions loved working with Ankur.
MG
Mohan Gupta

VP Product

ShareChat (Ex-Instagram, Flipkart)

Manager
Ankur is a very curious and hypothesis driven product manager who thinks about the problem statement from various angles and comes up with multiple hypotheses / experiments. His key strength lies in launching a product from scratch and then scaling it to 1-10. He has a keen eye for data and can draw the right inferences.
SM
Sidharth Mishra

Product Management Professional

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Worked with Ankur across multiple threads for over 3 years. He was part of growth team which launched Moj within 48 hours. He's able to balance different problem statements with right rigour — goes detail oriented when required and hustles out a solution when not. He has a founder's mindset.
PC
Palkush Chawla

Founder

GoMarble (Ex-ShareChat)

Same Team
I highly recommend Ankur as a Product Manager. He has a unique combination of strategic thinking and tactical execution skills, which allows him to identify opportunities, develop a vision and roadmap, and then execute on that plan. He is also a great collaborator, able to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
SB
Soumyadip Bhattacharyya

Android Engineer

Amazon (Ex-ShareChat)

Cross-functional
Ankur has been of immense help to the research team. He would take time to help understand the user journey with data's help. His attention to details while planning projects and documenting learning is commendable. Ankur is a great customer champion and always incorporates people's pain points and latent needs into his planning.
RB
Rachita Bisht

UX Researcher

UC Berkeley (Ex-ShareChat)

Senior Colleague
Ankur comes across as a diligent and detail-oriented PM. I have seen him grow across various parts of the product including SEO, growth, consumer experience, app performance, and compliance. He assumes high ownership by helping resolve production issues on priority, even sometimes outside his direct span of work.
TS
Tejas Singh

Founder Fellow @ SPC

Ex-ShareChat, ISB

Same Team
Ankur has been my mentor from the Moj Consumer Experience and Growth team. His quick data interpretations and insights on projects I was working on helped me fast-track my design process and take data backed decisions on the go. Ankur is a joy to work with.
GSA
Gurjot Singh Ahluwalia

UX Designer II

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Ankur is an exceptional Product Manager who has displayed immense ownership and creativity in his work. He has consistently delivered high impact features and effectively analyzed user experience and pain points in order to deliver top-of-the-line products.
AKM
Ashwani Kumar Mishra

Senior Product Manager

Walmart (Ex-ShareChat)

Manager
Ankur is one of the most dependable and sincere PMs out there. On Moj, he worked on a wide variety of complex problems, was able to hustle and get things done. He is a kind and well liked PM — all his peers across functions loved working with Ankur.
MG
Mohan Gupta

VP Product

ShareChat (Ex-Instagram, Flipkart)

Manager
Ankur is a very curious and hypothesis driven product manager who thinks about the problem statement from various angles and comes up with multiple hypotheses / experiments. His key strength lies in launching a product from scratch and then scaling it to 1-10. He has a keen eye for data and can draw the right inferences.
SM
Sidharth Mishra

Product Management Professional

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Worked with Ankur across multiple threads for over 3 years. He was part of growth team which launched Moj within 48 hours. He's able to balance different problem statements with right rigour — goes detail oriented when required and hustles out a solution when not. He has a founder's mindset.
PC
Palkush Chawla

Founder

GoMarble (Ex-ShareChat)

Same Team
I highly recommend Ankur as a Product Manager. He has a unique combination of strategic thinking and tactical execution skills, which allows him to identify opportunities, develop a vision and roadmap, and then execute on that plan. He is also a great collaborator, able to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
SB
Soumyadip Bhattacharyya

Android Engineer

Amazon (Ex-ShareChat)

Cross-functional
Ankur has been of immense help to the research team. He would take time to help understand the user journey with data's help. His attention to details while planning projects and documenting learning is commendable. Ankur is a great customer champion and always incorporates people's pain points and latent needs into his planning.
RB
Rachita Bisht

UX Researcher

UC Berkeley (Ex-ShareChat)

Senior Colleague
Ankur comes across as a diligent and detail-oriented PM. I have seen him grow across various parts of the product including SEO, growth, consumer experience, app performance, and compliance. He assumes high ownership by helping resolve production issues on priority, even sometimes outside his direct span of work.
TS
Tejas Singh

Founder Fellow @ SPC

Ex-ShareChat, ISB

Same Team
Ankur has been my mentor from the Moj Consumer Experience and Growth team. His quick data interpretations and insights on projects I was working on helped me fast-track my design process and take data backed decisions on the go. Ankur is a joy to work with.
GSA
Gurjot Singh Ahluwalia

UX Designer II

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Ankur is an exceptional Product Manager who has displayed immense ownership and creativity in his work. He has consistently delivered high impact features and effectively analyzed user experience and pain points in order to deliver top-of-the-line products.
AKM
Ashwani Kumar Mishra

Senior Product Manager

Walmart (Ex-ShareChat)

Manager
I worked with Ankur when he was part of the growth team at ShareChat. Ankur always demonstrated intent, which is one of the key values I look for in early product managers. He worked hard and learned the trade quickly, and was a key contributor in setting up multiple cross functional user growth experiments.
MM
Mithun Madhusudan

Founder, Pascal AI

Ex-ShareChat

Same Team
I have worked directly with Ankur for more than 2 years. He is an excellent, driven, humble, results oriented product manager. He understands the critical importance of maintaining strong product features, as well as the need to constantly grow revenue. One of the best Product Managers I've worked with.
AC
Antariksh Chavan

Software Engineer

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Ankur has always come across as someone who has bias for action and gets stuff done. He has taken a practical approach to product management and not just bogged down by over-structuring of problem statements. He was pro-active in solving bugs even on weekends and was always helpful as a team player.
AJ
Anushank Jain

Co-Founder @ Vidrow

Ex-ShareChat, IIT Kanpur

Cross-functional
Ankur is very hard working. He was here with us for more than 4 years and he built MOJ from scratch. He is gentle and always ready to solve problems faced by our users. He has very good experience in building exciting products.
BS
Brijesh Savaliya

Technical Architect

ShareChat

Same Team
I have worked with Ankur for around 3 years. He has always been data driven with strong analytical skills. He is the subject matter expert when it comes to organic growth hacks and SEO. He has this zeal for learning new things and improving every passing day.
SD
Saket Diwakar

Co-Founder @ Vestra

Ex-ShareChat

Same Team
We have worked together on Sharechat and Moj app where Ankur made product decisions which led to great growth of both the apps. Moj app's DAU is ~25 million and Ankur played a vital role in achieving such a huge number. He is a rockstar product guy with great analytical and decision making skills.
DK
Devarshi Khanna

SDE-2

ShareChat

Same Team
It's a pleasure to work with Ankur, who is a great problem solver and a quick decision maker. The best part about him is that he is very open to suggestions from anyone in the team, and makes sure that everything shipped is optimal. He is also very strong at data handling and analysis.
CS
Chirag Shenoy

Senior Engineering Manager

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
I really enjoyed working with Ankur during his time as a Senior Product Developer. He always brought strong, thoughtful ideas to the table and was very proactive about pushing things forward. He was also incredibly patient with the editorial team and approached everything with a calm, mild-mannered attitude that made collaboration easy — even under pressure. Ankur is very switched on, solutions-focused, and consistently a pleasure to work with.
SS
Soraya Salam

Editor-in-Chief

Al Jazeera English Online

Manager
I worked with Ankur when he was part of the growth team at ShareChat. Ankur always demonstrated intent, which is one of the key values I look for in early product managers. He worked hard and learned the trade quickly, and was a key contributor in setting up multiple cross functional user growth experiments.
MM
Mithun Madhusudan

Founder, Pascal AI

Ex-ShareChat

Same Team
I have worked directly with Ankur for more than 2 years. He is an excellent, driven, humble, results oriented product manager. He understands the critical importance of maintaining strong product features, as well as the need to constantly grow revenue. One of the best Product Managers I've worked with.
AC
Antariksh Chavan

Software Engineer

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
Ankur has always come across as someone who has bias for action and gets stuff done. He has taken a practical approach to product management and not just bogged down by over-structuring of problem statements. He was pro-active in solving bugs even on weekends and was always helpful as a team player.
AJ
Anushank Jain

Co-Founder @ Vidrow

Ex-ShareChat, IIT Kanpur

Cross-functional
Ankur is very hard working. He was here with us for more than 4 years and he built MOJ from scratch. He is gentle and always ready to solve problems faced by our users. He has very good experience in building exciting products.
BS
Brijesh Savaliya

Technical Architect

ShareChat

Same Team
I have worked with Ankur for around 3 years. He has always been data driven with strong analytical skills. He is the subject matter expert when it comes to organic growth hacks and SEO. He has this zeal for learning new things and improving every passing day.
SD
Saket Diwakar

Co-Founder @ Vestra

Ex-ShareChat

Same Team
We have worked together on Sharechat and Moj app where Ankur made product decisions which led to great growth of both the apps. Moj app's DAU is ~25 million and Ankur played a vital role in achieving such a huge number. He is a rockstar product guy with great analytical and decision making skills.
DK
Devarshi Khanna

SDE-2

ShareChat

Same Team
It's a pleasure to work with Ankur, who is a great problem solver and a quick decision maker. The best part about him is that he is very open to suggestions from anyone in the team, and makes sure that everything shipped is optimal. He is also very strong at data handling and analysis.
CS
Chirag Shenoy

Senior Engineering Manager

ShareChat

Senior Colleague
I really enjoyed working with Ankur during his time as a Senior Product Developer. He always brought strong, thoughtful ideas to the table and was very proactive about pushing things forward. He was also incredibly patient with the editorial team and approached everything with a calm, mild-mannered attitude that made collaboration easy — even under pressure. Ankur is very switched on, solutions-focused, and consistently a pleasure to work with.
SS
Soraya Salam

Editor-in-Chief

Al Jazeera English Online

Skills

Core expertise

Built across 8+ years shipping products at scale

01

AI/ML Products

Founded SuperMindMaps AI. Established AJ Labs with AI-powered editorial tools. Building AI agents platform at Vestra.

AI AgentsLLMsEvals
02

0→1 Product Launches

Launched Moj (TikTok replacement) — 10M users in week one. Defined instrumentation, auth, and core experience.

MVP StrategyPMFRapid Scaling
03

Growth & Experimentation

100+ experiments at ShareChat/Moj. 15-20% login funnel lift. 10-15% conversion gains from guest flow optimization.

A/B TestingFunnelsStat Sig
04

Product Analytics

Designed tracking schemas from scratch for Moj. Built experimentation platforms. Metrics ownership across 50M+ MAU.

BigQueryInstrumentationCohorts
05

User Retention

16% retention lift at Al Jazeera. 300% session time increase over 2 years. D30/D60/D90 modeling expertise.

EngagementChurnLoyalty
06

Technical SEO

$6M+ organic traffic engine. Outranked Pinterest. 1M DAU from search in 9 months across 9 Indian languages.

Core Web VitalsPWAi18n SEO
07

Mobile at Scale

ShareChat & Moj: 50M+ MAU. App size reduction for better conversion. Play Store ASO saving $100K-600K monthly.

AndroidiOSASO
08

Push & Re-engagement

20% of DAU driven by push at ShareChat. Implemented OneSignal across Al Jazeera web & apps. 3% retention lift.

NotificationsRetargetingCRM
09

Privacy & Compliance

Privacy PM at Al Jazeera. Bridge between product, engineering, and DPO. Led internal audits and remediation.

GDPRData GovernanceAudits
010

Platform & Identity

Owned auth across ShareChat, Moj, Jit11. OTP, social logins, deep linking. Built in-house systems saving $40K/yr.

OAuthDeep LinksIdentity
011

Internationalization

Launched Urdu with RTL support. 9+ Indian languages at ShareChat. Al Jazeera Balkans localization.

RTLLocalizationMulti-region
012

Technical Depth

Built IVR flows, floating widgets, deep linking systems from scratch. Code reviews with engineering. React, Node, SQL.

System DesignAPIsPrototyping
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