About

Pathange Balaji Rao is a versatile professional with extensive experience in product management, growth, strategy, and design, having worked with over 15 different organizations and startups. He has launched more than 10 digital products, four of which were featured as Top #3 Products of the day on Product Hunt. Balaji has also co-founded two startups, Audify.club, an audio-first micro-consulting platform, and DesignCode Labs, which built MVP products from scratch for 10+ startups. He has led teams of up to 10 employees and generated revenues of up to Rs 1Mn. Balaji has worked in product teams at INDmoney, where he was part of the Minisave and Rewards teams, Tyke, where he took up growth initiatives, community management, and engagement, BridgeUp, where he was part of the founding team, and Spyne.ai, where he built the v1 of a marketplace image transformation tool used by Ola's second-hand car marketplace. Balaji is also an active side-project creator, having built and launched SelfSchool.me, a platform to learn anything for free, with over 650+ free curated courses and 25,000+ registered users. He has also founded OffTrack ComicLetter, which simplifies startup, VC, and web3 content through comics, and ProductManager.MBA, which has over 1000 registered learners. Balaji is a product manager MBA and has won product teardown competitions for OYO, Pharmeasy, goDutch, and JoshSkills. He has freelanced as a UX designer for clients with revenue run rates of $100 million, such as Chick Fil A and AuctionBazaar.com. Balaji also runs a niche YouTube channel with over 10K+ views and 500+ subscribers, where he puts out quality content on product management, career in tech, and personal finance. Balaji has a degree in Integrated Mtech from iiitm and has completed courses from Startup School Online and Y Combinator. He has also completed his 12th class from Velociity Junior College and his 10th class from St. Joseph's English High School. Balaji's tech stack includes product management, AI, web3, designer, and UI. With relevant experience of 3.61 years, Balaji is currently working as a product manager at Popicorn.