Nish Budhraja

I started on customer insights: interviewing customers, studying our highest-value ones, and keeping a running feed on competitors. Some product ideas came straight from those interviews, including a way of splitting deposits that ecommerce sellers had worked out for themselves.

I joined the growth team in 2024 and helped lead account management through 2025, a team we built from scratch to call our most promising new customers. These days I work on growth measurement, AI search, and marketing compliance, and I build most of the internal tools behind them.

I also moonlight as a product manager. I helped take Found's subscription product from idea through launch; it passed ~$150K in ARR five months in.

Ran product, design, and engineering at California's largest prefab ADU builder, starting as Director of Product and becoming Head of Product. Prefab revenue grew from zero to $50M annualized. We built an online configurator that let customers design a backyard home and see the real price without talking to a salesperson.

Raised $300K from LPs to back about 30 UC Berkeley students with income share agreements: money up front, repaid as a share of income after graduation.

Joined out of undergrad and was promoted twice, to Senior Associate Consultant and then Consultant. I sized a $10B+ market for a new product at a Fortune 500 software company, ran ten private equity due diligences, redesigned a Fortune 50 retailer's loyalty program, found 12% of cost savings at a national gym chain, and rebuilt digital marketing for a large ecommerce retailer.

Took a six-month externship from Bain to be employee #3 at a seed-stage fund backing Berkeley-affiliated startups. Closed partnerships with five Fortune 500 companies, adding $300K a year in revenue and about 30% more operating capital.

Helped plan how Microsoft would get developers building apps for Windows 8.