Prashant F. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Fundbox is an AI-driven capital platform for B2B commerce.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Over time, I led various parts of the Fundbox business, including core tech functions (Engineering, Data, PM, UX), Product Marketing, Collections, Support, and HR.

Stanford, Ca, Us

At the GSB, I have co-taught a course on Emerging Network-Based Consumer Internet Businesses. I continue to give lectures to MBA students on topics related to the Operations, Information and Technology (OIT) area.

Ithaca, New York, Us

At Johnson, I regularly teach second-year MBA students a course on Building Successful Consumer Internet Businesses. This is during what is euphemistically called the Spring semester (it is well below freezing at that time of year).

Berkeley, Ca, Us

At Haas, I regularly teach second-year MBA students a course on Building Successful Consumer Internet Businesses, in the Fall semester.

Mountain View, California, Us

Bidgely transforms the way utilities engage their consumers. At Bidgely, I am advising the founder/CEO and the COO on company and product strategy.

San Francisco, California, Us

Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for artists and creators to get paid. At Patreon, I advised the founder/CEO and other executives on issues related to strategy, planning and execution.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I joined Yahoo through the acquisition of Flurry. At Yahoo, I led all advertising and data efforts across Engineering, PM, UX and Product Marketing functions, reporting to the CEO.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Flurry was the world's leading mobile analytics platform, running on over 2 billion mobile devices every months. At Flurry, I led Product and Engineering functions. When Flurry was acquired by Yahoo in August 2014, I led the efforts to integrate the Flurry platform into Yahoo's mobile and advertising initiatives.

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Mayfield is a 50 year old venture capital firm, focused on investments in enterprise and consumer technology. At Mayfield, I advised the partnership on startup investment opportunities in social media, mobile platforms, advertising technology and education technology.

At Facebook, I led product management for the company's advertising products, driving significant improvements in user experience quality and advertiser ROI, while scaling for order-of-magnitude growth in users, advertisers and revenue. I also led product management for Facebook's payment efforts. This included building the company's global payments capabilities and launching its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, for games and other apps on the Facebook Platform. As part of this role, I served as CEO of Facebook Payments Inc., a Facebook subsidiary focused on payment processing.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I managed all of Google’s monetization products, and ultimately all products, for the Asia-Pacific region as PM Director, APAC. Prior to the APAC regional role, I built Google's global payment platform as well as payment features for AdWords and AdSense as PM Director, Billing & Payments. As an early PM on the Ads team, I facilitated Google's transition from Premium Sponsorships to AdWords by building key AdWords order entry and billing capabilities. I was also the PM for the cross-functional effort that helped Google prepare for its IPO by making SOX-required changes to its advertising product and systems.

Closedloop Solutions was a pioneer in web-based, distributed financial planning and forecasting, delivering software as a service before the term SaaS was coined. As a very early member of the Closedloop team, I played several product management, pre-sales, professional services and customer support roles. Closedloop was ultimately acquired by Lawson Software.

Phd, Business

Phd Minor, Engineering Economic Systems & Operations Research

Ma, Business Research

Ms, Statistics

B Tech, Chemical Engineering

High School