Mudit Srivastava

We're Pathway – a Palo Alto/Paris/Wroclaw based neolab. We're shaking the foundations of frontier AI by introducing the world’s first post-transformer model that has solved long-horizon reasoning and continual learning. Our breakthrough – The Dragon Hatchling (BDH) architecture outperforms Transformer and provides the enterprise with full visibility into how the model works. Combining the foundational model with the tooling – fastest data processing engine on the market, Pathway enables enterprises to move beyond incremental optimization and toward truly contextualized, experience-driven intelligence for sticky inference use cases. We are trusted by organizations such as NATO, La Poste, and Formula 1 racing teams.

Pathway enables the easy mix-and-match of batch, streaming, and LLM architectures, all within a single engine and with the same syntax. Pathway is up to x90 faster than Flink, Spark Streaming, and Kafka Streams, and it powers real-time machine learning as well as graph algorithms on the fly.

This is a social venture I've admired for a long. Founded in 2016, NavGurukul is a non-profit that empowers underprivileged girls with world-class, free education. Its leaders include former leaders of Microsoft and Unacademy, as well as grads from Harvard, IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, etc. Together, they've been part of the founding journey of over 10 startups and non-profits.

Built a community-first ecosystem that engineers the future of AI. Created a community of 300K+ AI enthusiasts from 150+ countries, hosted 75+ live session, created 50+ courses, forged 300+ strategic partnerships, and launched aimarketplace.co. We also helped drive AI projects with our product & managed service offering at companies like Juniper Networks, Segmind, Peking University, and Capgemini.

Skillspace.ai is AI Planet's SaaS product with which we tried to make technology hiring (screening stage) assessments easier. In terms of traction, it was adopted by 25+ VC firms (including Sequoia & Antler) as their suggested tool for tech hiring, and 75+ customers which included Cisco.

Helped in launching Relevel. Trained the B2B team and directly brought 20+ clients (from lead gen to agreement signing) including Cred, Razorpay, Vedantu, Urban Company, upGrad, and many more. This was in roughly 40 days. Helped in adopting CRM and other sales automation tools. Took an exit after things took off comfortably to build aiplanet.com.

Started working with Unacademy after it acquired CodeChef from Directi. Led 'CodeChef for Business' to achieve product-market fit. I closed enterprise deals with clients, including Amazon, ByteDance, Trilogy Innovations, Rippling, Quadeye, Junglee Games, and Gameskraft, and added a few million into our revenue in the pipeline. This also helped CodeChef garner its maximum ever participation in its monthly contest from developers (30k+ developers in 3 hours!). My KRAs - Strategy & Growth, Hiring, People Management, Deal Negotiation Beyond this, I worked on launching partnerships with Indian universities, relaunching Conversations with CodeChef, and hosting leaders from tech unicorns.

Joined CodeChef as the first member focused on business growth, becoming the go-to for B2B deals. I relaunched and achieved product-market fit for CodeChef's enterprise vertical, positioning us in technology hiring, hackathons, and enterprise innovation. In a single 3-hour challenge, we started attracting 40K visitors and 18K developers competing organically in less than 2 hours. I closed deals with Ericsson, Amazon, Rippling, NPCI, upGrad, Trilogy Innovations, and Reliance Jio. Over a year, we increased organic inbound leads by 156% and built a funnel for ads-driven leads using Google Search ads, LinkedIn Lead-Gen ads, and InMails. I also launched Conversations with CodeChef, securing and hosting eight unicorn/MNC CTOs as guest speakers in 2 days.

Worked directly under the Business Unit Head of Directi's CodeChef unit. Got promoted – twice. - Opened and managed relationship with players including RedHat, Snap Inc, Intel, Microsoft, AWS, and more. - Experimented with various GTM strategies for CodeChef's products at that time. - Collaborated with Merkle Sokrati's team to drive SEO. - Prepared PRDs for my product and assisted the PM. - Managed corporate hackathons for enterprises.

Hiring the right talent is a challenging task, but there is no structured ecosystem that helps recruiters in leveraging alumni networks for it. If such structured engaged ecosystems are established, hiring is just one of the offerings one could make to a very well-curated community. With this thought, we worked out a strategy with the mentorship of former top-executives of Microsoft and Sopra Steria. To build a 'Network of Alumni Networks' with all of them connected while having their own space of exclusivity, we started AlmaDots. P.S. Due to some reasons, we're not working on it currently, but if you need more information regarding the same, feel free to PM me. :)

Micromasters Program in Business Management is an online credit-eligible program, designed for mid-career professionals, and offered by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore via edX. The program consists of the following six sub-disciplines - Marketing Management, Strategic Management, Corporate Finance, Accounting for Decision-Making, Operations Management, and People Management The coursework for each discipline comprised lecturers by professors of IIM Bangalore, peer discussions, graded assignments, and a proctored examination. More details can be found here - https://www.iimb.ac.in/eep/product/331/MicroMasters_in_Business_Management https://credentials.edx.org/records/programs/shared/c7ec0ab922dd420784a8c481d645825f/