Hello, I'm Eshaan Kaul 👋

I am currently a graduate student studying Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. As a graduate student, I have the unique opportunity to work on exciting projects and contribute to the university's entrepreneurship and research communities as a VC Associate at Big Red Ventures and a Research Assistant in the Virtual Embodiment Lab.

About Myself

With over 7 years of experience in product management and design, I have developed a strong track record of success in building innovative products across Fintech, AI/ML, Voice, and web3. I have successfully launched 5+ apps to 100M users in emerging markets, and am known for my ability to lead with deep user empathy, first principles, and servant leadership. My teammates have appreciated my skills for strong empathy, intuition, & action-orientation through consensus-building, communicating, and influencing.

Past Works

Flipkart Flippi - Multi-modal Conversational Assistant

Voice-based conversational shopping assistant for new internet users.

Flipkart Pay Later

Building consumer finance products for next half billion internet users.

Flipkart Co-Branded Credit Card

Making credit and retail more inclusive in India by partnering with Axis Bank and Mastercard to launch a co-branded credit card.

Posts

Redesigning my site in the open

I haven’t updated my personal website since late 2019 – probably the longest period ever between two redesigns – and it has held up well for over 4 years, but it’s now time for a refresh. I have several motivations for this latest effort.

Building for Bharat - Women in Product

Women in Product and Flipkart got together a diverse group of product managers, designers, and engineers to talk about the importance of product management and learn about the challenges of building products that satisfy the unique needs and demands of a young and tech-savvy India.

Zooming In & Zooming Out

I was pondering the idea of Networked Thoughts and Human Thinking, and a big inquiry I had was how people can create and destroy the concept of "contexts", a sub-graph of the global knowledge graph. This made me realize that people can "zoom" in and out of ideas; given a context, a person can be asked for more detail or less detail, and they can provide that. For example, consider the context in my mind of the VueJs framework. I could be asked to give a one-sentence description, a paragraph description, or write a few pages. This led me to understand that I could create a composition of all the nodes and structure within that context, and I could modify the length of the composition to suit the situation.

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