Nikhil Chandhok

Manage Product, Eng, Data, PMM and Strategy teams. Circle is a platform infrastructure company that is the issuer of multiple stablecoins including market leading USDC.

Lead Product, Design, Strategy, Product Marketing.. Circle is the issuer of USDC, which is the fourth largest cryptocurrency in the world and the largest regulated stablecoin. USDC is a networked Internet product that relies on network effects to achieve utility and relies on varied distribution methods to reach end users in more than a 100 countries.

AI Drug Discovery.

AI enabled sales automation - Exited to Salesforce

Hardware and Software PM Leader for all AR Glasses. Conceptualized and built Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Orion AR glasses.

First Product lead for AR at Facebook and built entire program and PM team. - Built up the world's largest AR creator network - www.sparkar.com with more than 1M creators, across Facebook family of apps. - HW/SW Lead for AR Glasses

Formulated Google strategy for AR for wearables and phones. Led Google's phone AR efforts including ARCore, Precise Mapping, Tango, AR apps etc. In the past worked on Core VR tech as well.

Founder/CEO for Bento Labs. Bento Labs was a venture funded startup that was building an AI enabled distribution of Android. Scout our first app had over 100K downloads and a 4.5+ rating on the store. Investors included First Round Capital, Social+Capital and Google Ventures.

I was an early employee of YouTube and was a member of the executive team at the time of leaving. I joined the team when they were 50 employees and left when there were thousands. I spent close to 7 years there in a variety of roles, led large teams and helped build YouTube a multi billion dollar business. Some highlights of my YouTube/Video @Google tenure: - PM lead for Music which was the largest content category on YouTube. Helped turn it from a loss making category to a profit making one through a series of product and business initiatives - GM responsibility for TV Ads network focused on getting TV ad dollars to YouTube. We grew the network 3x on reach and 6x in impressions. - PM lead for Paid subscriptions which became YouTube Red - First PM for YouTube Mobile including owning the launch of YouTube Mobile app on the iPhone - Creation of VEVO ( one of the largest music focused consumer properties and video ad networks) - Launch and scaling out of Live Streaming on youTube - Management and growth of YouTube's investments in Original Programming - Created the YouTube API program

User experience and search quality PM. Cofounded the product at Google and helped integrate with Universal search