Hello👋🏻 I am Hardik More, a product enthusiast
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I have an Bachelors degree in Economics from University of Delhi, S.G.T.B. Khalsa College and I am interested in startups, finance and products. Having a commerce background, I took Economics as my major to get an understanding of macro and finance. I got interested in finance in my fresher year, and wanted to get into core finance domain, aiming to become Investment Banker.
My first internship was with a Motilal Oswal Securities Sub-broker, wherein I did Mutual Fund Analysis for high net worth individual client base. Later, I started FinZ Capital, with a team of 10, wherein we did equity and sectoral research, primarily for Indian Markets. Over there, I enjoyed building website, social media presence, community along with creating content. Meanwhile, I tried to productise the research module, and create other products, wherein I failed.
Then my interest in Fintech piqued. I learnt about technology and startups out there, getting my next internship at a Fintech Service Provider, named Pirimid Technologies. Over there, I got to work with most of Fintech stacks - payment tech, wealth tech, credit tech and even blockchain and crypto. You can read about my projects there in my Portfolio. After this, I even stumbled on the idea of creating my own wealth tech product - personal finance management app with my teammates at Pirimid. After successful prototyping and doing 100s of user calls, discarded the idea due to missing product market fit and regulatory challenges.
Post this, decided to take up role of Product manager, spending 2022 interning with three different startups to learn product practices across organisations and industries. In this process, even learnt how to build SaaS startups and the interesting domain of cybersecurity compliance. I finally took up product management role at an upcoming wealth tech broker - Dhan.
Currently, I am building Trading and API products at Dhan, a new age stock broking platform by Raise Financial Services. To be late in an industry and trying to build business vertical ground up, comes with challenges, not limiting myself to ‘Product Management’.
Over the last couple of years, I have worked on different projects, experienced startup building firsthand, and acquired skills in the areas of coding, data analysis, product management, agile development and other allied areas. With each new project and iteration, I have explored new ideas and learnt relevant skills.
Being extremely curious about both tech and finance opens up avenues for me, where I have worked with almost all major fintech technologies out there. And alongside, even worked on a range of SaaS based companies. Currently, I dabble on any and every interesting idea out there, so let me know if you have any.