Misbah AshrafCo Founder

India - Bengaluru, Karnataka,

Hello, my name is Misbah Ashraf. I’m currently building Jar (myjar.app)
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Recently, I founded Marsplay, a community-led commerce platform for fashion and beauty and scaled it to 1 Million plus active users before getting it acquired 💰
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I previously founded Cibola, a payment venture after dropping out of college with my friends from IIT Delhi.
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I also led product and growth at startups like Pulse.qa (YC), Pursuit, Toymail (YC), Spangle, Meed Inc, Keygo.me among others. My thumb role of choosing people over ideas helped me to work with insanely talented teams across the globe.

Working with multiple startups on Product and Growth led me to understand the need for growth from the very first day of a product launch. My time spent working with startups across three continents and growing a user base from 0 to 1Million+ without marketing spends, only added to my experience.

My passion lies in building products that users find delightful, and this drive is perfectly complemented by my love for people, numbers and winning. All my energy comes from bringing order to chaos, solving problems before they surface and staying focused when the going gets tough.

My best words have been featured in Huffingpost, Techinasia, Techcrunch, Yourstory, Inc42, Startup Grind, Hackernoon, Business Insider, Business World, Bangalore Mirror and others.

You can talk to me about design, community building, growth, product, impact, and storytelling.