Hardik Patil is a generalist operator who builds and scales early-stage startups across product, growth, operations, and partnerships. He currently leads product at an early-stage Silicon Valley startup called Anon. He was an early employee at Zepto, the hyperlocal grocery delivery company, where he led ops and growth from pre-product to Series A — running on-the-ground operations through hypergrowth, from dark stores to delivery networks. He went on to drop out of Stanford to found OG, a company building interoperability infrastructure for social networking (covered by TechCrunch). After that, he led partnerships at the cross-border logistics startup Xindus, where he scaled revenue to $5M ARR while materially improving margins. Hardik also writes on AI, security, and what comes next ...