Member story · Cohort 06 · April 2026

From physics to supply chains. Left with working examples

Co-founder and CPO at EasyReplenish, forecasting inventory for apparel brands, after four years running replenishment at Udaan.

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In Varun’s own words

What Varun wrote about the course after Cohort 06. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Varun? I’ll intro you.

Varun RavulaCohort 06 · April 2026
Varun on the course

I joined expecting to upskill on using AI at work, and left with a real understanding, working examples, and recordings I can go back to anytime.

This isn’t a theoretical course, it’s a working one, covering everything from the tools and methods to cost, guardrails, and evaluation at a production level.

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What changed for Varun

Left with working examples, not slides.

Recordings he goes back to anytime.

Cost, guardrails and evals at production level.

Varun learned alongside PMs from
Quest American Express Publicis
Morgan Stanley Google PhonePe
Salesforce Oracle NVIDIA
Barclays Airbnb JPMorgan Chase
Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Amazon
Cisco Palo Alto Networks Myntra
Intuit Tesco Technology Verizon
Indeed Caterpillar Unilever
Motorola Solutions Zoho Trellix
U.S. Bank Lowe's India EY
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The path

Classrooms, a kitchen, warehouses, and now AI

  1. 2014

    Head of Physics

    Narayana Educational Society

  2. 2017

    CEO

    Kitchen Engineers

  3. 2019

    Inventory Replenishment Manager

    Udaan

  4. 2020

    Senior Inventory Planning Manager

    Udaan

  5. 2023

    Co-founder & CPO

    EasyReplenish

  6. Apr 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 06, April 2026

The work

What Varun 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

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.

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
Open ↗
What it teaches a PM

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

What Varun writes
varun.curious.pm5 min read ↗

The cost of a stockout

Availability is a product problem, not a warehouse one.
varun.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Products for the warehouse floor

Not for the demo.
varun.curious.pm4 min read ↗

From physics classrooms to product

An unlikely path that made sense.
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