# Vaish Srivathsan

> Product-Focused Business Builder

## Bio
Vaish Srivathsan is a Product-led business builders driving $100M GenAI portfolio at Adobe. Leads with product & value thinking to scale complex technologies. Previously doubled Box stock via strategic repositioning and founded an AI startup (`Simili`). She is self-taught and transitioned to AI through experimentation and hands-on building. She is passionate about a future where robots and machines take over simplistic tasks and humans get to be creative.

## Key Experience
- **Director of Product @ Adobe (2025-Present)**: Leading Dreambooth/LoRA extensions for Firefly. Unlocked $500M+ in business potential and $30M through delivering custom models. She also shipped a consumer version of custom models within 10 weeks to 10K+ beta users.
- **Head of Strategy & Ops @ Adobe (2024-2025)**: Led GTM for enterprise GenAI. Surpassed revenue targets (220% Q2) and closed 3 lighthouse deals >$500K. She also incubated two new businesses ($250M+ expected revenue) by translating customer requirements into product specifications through workshops, conferences, and rapid prototyping. She was the BU champion for infusing AI into everyone's workflows and led AI demo days that were attended by 200+ people (70%+ of the BU headcount).
- **Founder & CEO @ Vinn Labs (2023-2024)**: Built `Simili` (Optimizing math CoT in LLMs for education use cases). Raised $1.2M+ non-dilutive funding.
- **Sr. Director Strategy / CoS to CEO @ Box (2020-2023)**: Driving force behind "Content Cloud" messaging and building product truth to reflect that through organic (in-house incubation) and inorganic opportunities (M&A). Helped double stock price.
- **Engagement Manager @ McKinsey (2015-2019)**: Top 5% rated EM. Led GTM transformations for Fortune 10 SaaS companies. Also delivered 9 Private Equity diligences worth $40B+.

## Skills
- GenAI Product Strategy
- Hands-on product management
- GTM Transformation
- Venture Fundraising
- M&A Diligence
- Enterprise SaaS

#Hobbies
- Crosswords
- Hiking
- Indian music
- Podcasts (Lenny's podcast, Acquired, TWIML, Training Data and Latent Space)
- Reading Arxiv papers for fun
- Creative Coding

## Education
- **Harvard Business School**: Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
- **IIT Madras**: Integrated Masters in Economics

## Connect
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsrivathsan
- **Website**: https://vsrivathsan.com