Kumar Kilambi — Product & Strategy
Discovery to prototype
to recommendation.
I work the full problem.
Six years at a venture studio. Now at Haas.
Comfortable in ambiguity, obsessed with getting to the answer.
A Swiss Army knife: technical enough to build the tool, operational enough to run the system, and empathetic enough to know what problem actually needed solving in the first place.
About
I build things to find out if they're worth building.
Six years at a venture studio taught me how to take an idea from question mark to working answer — running discovery, building MVPs, and making the call on whether something is worth pursuing.
I do my best work in the early stages, when the problem isn't fully defined and the answer has to be built. Now at Haas, I'm bringing that instinct to new problems across industries.
Outside of work, I organize multi-sport tournaments, build games for my friends, and occasionally make people laugh on stage.
What I'm looking for
A role at a small but growing company where I can do one-to-100 product work: turning validated ideas into scaled solutions, working closely with customers, and building alongside people who care about the problem as much as the product.
Projects
Things I've built, shipped, or competed with.
BuzzLink
Led field research across 3 cities, 60 contractor conversations, and an honest kill recommendation backed by real data.
AI Deal Flow Pipeline
Built a Make.com pipeline that standardizes inbound pitch submissions using GPT — removing the advantage of knowing how to pitch well.
Recruiting CRM
No existing tool connected applications, contacts, and outreach history the way the process actually works. So I built one.
Just Game Olympics
Six years of running a multi-sport tournament. Pen and paper turned into a custom web app with a live leaderboard when the friction got real.
MLB Fan Engagement Strategy
Baseball is the 2nd most-played youth sport in the US. 72% of its viewers are 35+. A two-pronged strategy to close the gap.
Gridiron Dynasty
A football simulation game I've been building for my friend group. More to come.
Experience
Where I've been.
MBA Candidate
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- Full-time MBA focused on product management, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
- Competing in case competitions, building projects, recruiting for PM roles.
Product & Strategy
Launch Factory (Venture Studio)
- Led 0→1 product work across 10+ portfolio companies — discovery, MVP builds, go/no-go recommendations.
- Ran customer discovery sprints, prototype validation, and early market sizing.
- Worked across consumer apps, B2B SaaS, and marketplace models.
Contact
Let's talk.
I'm always up for a conversation about product, early-stage ideas, or recruiting. Drop me a line.
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