Entrepreneur, Product Guy, and Software Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder at Blackflipper
- Past
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- Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures
- Senior Product Manager at imeem
- Co-Founder at Anywhere.FM
- Product Manager at Microsoft
- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
- Software Engineer at Paetec Communications
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Sachin Rekhi’s Summary
Successful entrepreneur and product executive passionate about taking great ideas and bringing them to market in V1 products.
Experienced in product verticals including consumer internet, social media, and developer platforms.
Sachin Rekhi’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Monetization, Metrics & Analytics, Business Development, Marketing, Engineering
Sachin Rekhi’s Experience
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Founder
Blackflipper
(Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Building solutions to help you leverage your network.
The first of which is Feedera, a personalized daily digest of your Twitter feed that ranks contest based on it's relevance amongst your friends and overall popularity. -
Entrepreneur in Residence
Trinity Ventures
(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 2009 — July 2009 (5 months)
Thinking about the next big opportunity...
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Senior Product Manager
imeem
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Led emerging monetization efforts, including international monetization, online audio advertising, and imeem VIP, a premium subscription service.
Drove the product development of the imeem Media Platform, allowing third party developers to build compelling media centric applications leveraging imeem's music streaming, playlisting, and recommendations infrastructure. Led platform design, product management, developer relations, business development, and platform evangelism, resulting in the platform reaching over 250 million daily API requests. -
Co-Founder
Anywhere.FM
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)
Anywhere.FM is a web music player that allows you to experience music where you want it.
As co-founder, championed the voice of the customer through customer feedback, led user acquisition, drove the investigation of the business model and associated financial projections, as well as analyzed business development opportunities.
Anywhere.FM reached over 15 million user uploaded tracks and over 100,000 registered users.
Anywhere.FM was seed funded by Y Combinator with additional angel funding and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Anywhere.FM was acquired by imeem, Inc. in Dec. 2007. -
Product Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)
Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System - Team Foundation Server, an enterprise version control solution.
Led product planning for TFS Enterprise Edition through extensive customer research, segmentation, and financial analysis. Drove the Hosted TFS pilot program to investigate both the technical feasibility and business model around building a software-as-a-service model for Team Foundation Server.
In addition, led marketing for the devBiz acquisition, in charge of pricing, announcement, and rollout of the acquired TeamPlain Web Access product.
Also responsible for competitive analysis for all of Visual Studio Team System and developed sales tools to win customers away from competing products. -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Envisioned, designed, and executed the database unit testing, database refactoring, and data generation feature areas for the V1 edition for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
In addition to product development, led the development of process guidance for the toolset, reviewed and wrote a forward for the premier Refactoring Databases book by Scott Ambler, as well as authored a popular white paper on database unit testing methodologies.
Presented on database development best practices at conferences, including Tech Ed Boston 06, Tech Ed Malaysia 06,
Dev Connections Los Angeles 06, and Wash DC DB Pro Launch 06. -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
Served as a Program Manager for the Visual Studio Core Team, which is responsible for Visual Studio infrastructure common to all languages and project types.
Led several projects, including developing the functional specification of the Export Template Wizard, a new feature shipped in Visual Studio 2005, as well as the long term investigation of large enterprise support (nested projects) inside of Visual Studio. -
Software Engineer
Goldman Sachs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GS; Investment Banking industry)
May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)
Developed C# / ASP.NET applications for the banking technology division of Goldman Sachs.
Applications included Project Central, a central repository for tracking the status of all projects, as well as a best practices app, tracking all learnings and howtos for the division. -
Software Engineer
Paetec Communications
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)
Developed Oracle-backed MFC C++ applications for the billing department of PaeTec Communications, a long distance telecommunications provider.
Applications included PaeTec's first online billing system, automated phone record error detection and correction, and a system to optimize billing between carriers by reducing redundant payouts.
Sachin Rekhi’s Education
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University of Pennsylvania
BS in Engineering , Computer Science
- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Beta Pi
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University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
BS in Economics , Finance
- Activities and Societies:
- Beta Gamma Sigma
