Kaushik Subramanian

Venture capitalist, product person

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About

I have had 2 professional chapters so far, with #3 going on currently:
Chapter 1 was learning consumer goods businesses in Asia, and learning how sales and marketing is done at L'OrealChapter 2 was learning silicon valley style product leadership and marketing:
- At Stripe, where I built a $XB profitable business in FX/Multicurrency, and led several product teams and initiatives across Stripe Connect, invoicing and monetization
- At Meta, where I grew its ad network to a multi billion dollar business by changing the plumbing of the ad tech industryCurrently, I am on Chapter 3. This is as a Partner at EQT Ventures, Europe's largest early stage fund. I invest primarily in product led technology businesses, and am biased towards fintech.I studied computer engineering, marketing, later an MBA and went to finishing school at McKinsey so I can confidently speak in threes.

Talks/Podcasts

Venture Europe - Building multi billion $ businesses, 2023
Decision making in uncertain times, 2023
Blume Ventures - How to build empowered product teams, 2022
Techstars Amsterdam/Stockholm - Crafting succesful products, 2021
Indian Silicon Valley - Navigating a career in tech, 2022
Startup Operator podcast, 2021
Product Summit Talk, 2020
Keynote at Facebook f8, 2019

Media and Bylines

Professional
Data revolution in venture capital, 2024
Payrails banks $14.4M for its OS for complex payments flows, 2023
Career Story on YourStory, 2020
Article on App Bidding in Digiday, 2019
Mobile World Congress Keynote, 2019
World Economic Forum, 2016Personal
The Hindu, 2021
Scroll.in, 2021
Inc42, 2020
Network Capital, 2019/20

I write about tech, careers, product management and in an earlier life, consumer goods. Here are some examples:

Longer reads:

CFO's are facing a moment of crisis
Stablecoins - making financial services internet native
1 year in VC
How to write a manager manual
How to write a user manual for yourself
How to quit your job with grace
What its like to leave McKinsey

Short Reads (<2 mins):

How apps make money
Good product counsel vs Great product counsel
Good feedback vs bad feedback
The big shiny thing problem
How to have great meetings
How to drive influence without authority
On Metrics
Strategy vs narrative framing
How to scale when you're not a manager