Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

Ex-Microsoft, ex-Amazon. Connected the what and the how

Ex-Microsoft and ex-Amazon, now helping founders plan and ship their products.

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In Chinmaya’s own words

What Chinmaya wrote about the course after Cohort 05. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Chinmaya? I’ll intro you.

Chinmaya NatarajanCohort 05 · March 2026
Chinmaya on the course

Working through real projects was a massive unlock for me.

Building apps hands-on connected the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ in a way no PRD ever did.

The cohort’s energy kept things clicking, and the team has built a community that’s genuinely useful to stay connected and keep learning from, long after the sessions end.

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What changed for Chinmaya

Built real apps, hands-on.

Connects the what and the how.

A community long after the sessions.

Chinmaya learned alongside PMs from
Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5 Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5
The path

Marketing, big tech, independence, and now AI

  1. 2015

    Marketing Manager

    Amazon

  2. 2018

    Senior Product Manager, Technical

    Amazon

  3. 2019

    Product Manager

    Microsoft

  4. 2022

    Senior Product Manager

    Microsoft

  5. 2025

    Digital Business Manager

    Independent

  6. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Chinmaya built, and writes

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01 / 03

Modular AI chatbot platform

A series of chatbots, each a step further: from a basic prototype to one with memory, tools and a database behind it.

OpenAI Streamlit Python
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What it teaches a PM

What makes a chatbot useful is memory and tools, not the model alone.

02 / 03

AI networking assistant

Finds people by what they do rather than by keywords, then starts the introduction with a voice call.

Voice AI Pinecone Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

How matching by meaning differs from ordinary search.

03 / 03

Autonomous job-search agent

An agent that searches job listings, reads each one and recommends the right roles, step by step on its own.

AI Agents OpenAI Python
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What it teaches a PM

When a task needs an agent, and when one prompt will do.

What Chinmaya writes
chinmaya.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Big tech vs solo founder: what actually transfers

What years at Microsoft and Amazon do, and don’t, bring to small teams.
chinmaya.curious.pm5 min read ↗

How to launch a digital product without burning out the team

Lessons from launches big and small.
chinmaya.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Managing remote teams, honestly

What remote work advice leaves out.
Around Chinmaya

Where Chinmaya works, who Chinmaya learned with

Where Chinmaya works
Chinmaya Natarajan
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Digital Business Manager

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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

Chinmaya Natarajan Hrishi Swaroop Hrishi Swaroop Anup Gunja Anup Gunja Paul K Paul Paul K Paul Lakshmi Prasanna Lakshmi Prasanna Projjal Dhar Projjal Dhar Palak Jain Palak Jain Sneha Kulukuru Sneha Kulukuru Sai Gole Sai Gole Komal Sikka Komal Sikka P Pooja Teena Azmi Teena Azmi Gayathri Satish Gayathri Satish Arabinda Bhattacharjee Arabinda Bhattacharjee NG Nabendu Goswami Shivani Kolala Shivani Kolala Prem Sreenivasan Narayan Prem Sreenivasan Narayan Sameer Sudhakar Deshpande Sameer Sudhakar Deshpande SE Sameera Epari

Every PM from Cohort 05. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

19 members · 12 weeks
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