Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

Zomato, Swiggy, OYO, Auctane. Now builds hands-on

A decade of consumer products at Zomato, Swiggy, OYO and now Auctane.

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In Hrishi’s own words

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

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Hrishi on the course

Building things at my own pace was the best part.

It gave me real hands-on learning, and more than that, the confidence that comes from actually building something yourself, not just watching it get built.

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What changed for Hrishi

Learned by building, at his own pace.

Got the confidence of building it himself.

No longer just watching it get built.

Hrishi 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

Operations, consumer apps, product, and now AI

  1. 2015

    Senior Team Lead

    Zomato

  2. 2018

    Assistant Manager

    Swiggy

  3. 2020

    Product Manager

    OYO

  4. 2023

    Senior Product Manager

    Jobizo

  5. 2024

    Senior Product Manager

    Auctane

  6. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Hrishi built, and writes

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01 / 03

Podcast search with RAG

Turns podcast episodes into vector embeddings, so you can ask a question and get the answer from what was actually said.

RAG Pinecone Streamlit
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What it teaches a PM

How retrieval keeps an answer grounded in real content.

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

Voice assistant that remembers

A phone-based voice assistant that remembers earlier calls and picks up where the last one ended.

Twilio ElevenLabs Webhooks
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What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

What Hrishi writes
hrishi.curious.pm5 min read ↗

What building AI photography at OYO taught me about useful AI

The most useful AI feature is often the least flashy.
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MVP to MLP: the real distance

The unglamorous work between a first version and one people love.
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Operations discipline is what makes products real

Why operations separates real products from demos.
Around Hrishi

Where Hrishi works, who Hrishi learned with

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Hrishi Swaroop

Senior Product Manager

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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

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

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Eight weekends of building real AI products with a small group of PMs. You leave with a portfolio like Hrishi’s.

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