Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Head of Product + Engineering Primary Organization Dassana
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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We often talk about folks that are either left-brained or right-brained. Parth's background has not only enabled him to be both but has also given him the ability to manage both sides effectively.
Ethnically Parth is Indian. He grew up in a melting pot of a city (Bangkok) filled with eclectic cultures, people, and food. Growing up, he spoke
four languages - English, Hindi, Gujarati, and Thai. He was taught Hinduism and Jainism at home, Buddhism from the beautiful Thai culture and people, and Christianity from K-12 in his private school. Being surrounded by so many languages, religions, and people in a highly tolerant nation, he learned many tricks from many trades.
Being a 90s kid, he was at the cusp of the information overload age. All these devices that exist now did not exist then. The internet was not mainstream yet. By the time he was in late elementary school, things had started to change. Owning a Windows PC with dial-up became a norm. Parth went from competing with friends on the Nokia snake game to BBMing on blackberries to eventually being suckered into playing freemium games on a computer that fit in his pocket. He went from carrying 1.44 MB floppy disks to burning 128 MB CDs to having 512 MB USB sticks to leveraging cloud storage and eventually working on a startup that helped enterprises properly configure these cloud data stores. All of this happened fast, and he loved it. He fell in love with the internet and its applications.
Using technology, Parth built a career in design and engineering. He was an early adopter of graphic design tools, which helped him express his creative side. Being a millennial, he was constantly barraged by content. He would go as far as to say that good UX helped him find good content since it demonstrates attention to detail. Then he pursued engineering in college because he wanted to grow closer to technology. Once he graduated from UCLA, he worked as a UI engineer since it married both technology and design.
After doing his first startup, Parth realized that he genuinely enjoyed wearing many hats. Frankly, he did not like being bound to a single job function because the underlying concepts and models are all the same; only their applications and jargon are different. After doing product management, he found his niche. What he loved is that as a product manager, you are the CEO of the product. You obsess over every darn detail - from concept to renewals - because you want nothing short of perfection.
TL;DR: Parth is a technologist that loves building products.
