Personal details
Adhiraj S.
Summary
I studied CS at university, focused on machine learning research, and authored papers with 700+ citations.
In 2013 I joined Dropbox where we built software used by 500M people. After a few years as the product matured and the company grew large, I wanted to work at a startup.
In 2018 I joined Sentry, now the world's leading error monitoring tool and a challenger in the $4B application performance monitoring space. I first led the growth team to optimize our self-serve funnel. Then I became a product manager to invest in new product development that was essential to continued growth. My team revamped alerts, a critical part of Sentry, and achieved double digit growth in adoption and quality metrics.
In 2022 I took a break to build investing tools for the general public.
In 2023 I started Podgenie, an AI assistant (https://www.podgenie.app/) that helps content marketers at B2B companies maximize the impact and reach of their audio-video content (podcasts, webinars etc) by automatically repurposing it to text formats like blogs, emails, and case studies. The product ultimately failed because I had too much of a "build it and they will come" mindset and didn't invest enough in GTM and differentiation.
Work Experience
Podgenie was an AI assistant that helps content marketers at B2B companies maximize the impact and reach of their audio-video content by automatically repurposing it to other formats (blogs, emails, case studies) and publishing them to various distribution channels.
Sentry is an application monitoring platform. During my tenure, we grew revenue 10x and raised an additional $190M in funding, with latest valuation at $3B.
➢ Senior Product Manager, Workflow
Developed strategy and delivered on KPIs for Sentry’s Workflow team, which is responsible for helping users detect and prioritize application problems quickly, primarily via alerts.
● Grew alerts from a feature to a product, increasing adoption by 20%.
● Reduced alerting false positives 20% via fine-grained filters+controls, and easier workflows to manage a high volume of notifications.
● Reduced alerting false negatives 30% via new types of alerts, expanded permissions, and a redesign of the alert-creation flow to improve discoverability and usability.
➢ Team Lead, Growth
Owned goal-setting, prioritization, and implementation, and grew the team from 2 to 4 people.
● Built new workflows for inviting teammates, increasing the efficiency of our main organic loop by 25%.
● Improved new-user onboarding flows, increasing activation rate by 15%.
● Increased ARR 3% by improving the discoverability and messaging of Sentry’s premium features.