Dhanur Sehgal

About

Dhanur is a best-selling author and a growth engineer with a passion for designing scalable and deterministic growth systems that create and compound value. He has a wide stack of technical and business skills that he leverages to solve complex business and growth problems. Drop him a message to know how he can help you. His achievements include building and scaling digital consumer products, attracting 2 million+ installs at a $0 CAC. He has also been a product and growth mentor at GrowthSchool, where he mentored top industry professionals. Before that, Dhanur worked at Cutshort as a growth manager, where he integrated various acquisition, habit, retention, and engagement loops to create a compounding growth engine for the company. When not working, you can find him reading books, acquiring new business skills, experimenting and developing stuff, or singing songs (no free demos please =D).

Experience

• Founder | Building Epic Shit · Stealth2022-09 –

  Built and scaled Blockify from 0 to 3,00,000+ users.

• Mentor [Product & Growth] · GrowthSchool2022-07 –

  Mentored & helped over 19,000 industry professionals at GrowthSchool, as a Product & Growth Mentor

• Growth Lead · Brevo2024-08 – 2025-09
• Growth Manager · CutShort2021-03 – 2022-06

  Designed a compounding growth engine for Cutshort. Integrated various acquisition, habit, retention and engagement loops to create scalable, deterministic, sustainable & compounding systems that accelerate and compound growth. Ran various growth experiments, iterated and scaled them based on the data and key learnings. Extensively worked on improving our growth engine's throughput, multiplier, and efficacy, using various levers like frameworks, automation, tools, SOPs, etc. Designed highly actionable, tested, and validated playbooks to scale things up with momentum. Nurtured and trained the team via training sessions, to help them with the right mental models for growth. Cultivated a data-driven growth and experimentation culture in the team. Increased the platform's daily user sessions, from an average of 142k sessions a day to an average of 558k sessions per day. Contributed extensively to growing the MRR by 330% over a span of 14 to 16 months.

• Best-Selling Author: The Growth Hacking Book 2 · Growth Media AI2019-10 – 2021-02

  Records: Amazon No.1 BESTSELLER, Amazon No.9 In Movers & Shakers List, Amazon No.1 New Release, Amazon No.1 New Release In Business Etiquette, Amazon No.1 New Release In Entrepreneurship Management, Amazon No.1 New Release In Startups, Amazon No.1 New Release In Search Engines, Amazon No.1 New Release In Web Marketing. https://www.amazon.com/author/dhanur-sehgal

• Growth Hacking Consultant · Microsoft2019-03 – 2019-08

  Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy for Microsoft Kaizala app. (~ 100k+ app downloads). SEO & ASO campaigns, Viral Marketing campaigns, Content Marketing campaigns, Product listing platforms & ProductHunt, Community Marketing, PR & Media buying.

• Growth Hacker · GrabOn2018-12 – 2019-08

  Product & Innovation Strategy, Content Strategy for GrabOn Indulge & Blog, SEO & Backlink Strategy. Worked extensively on advanced SEO techniques to rank multiple merchant pages on spot #1 of Google, leading to a 347% increase in search traffic.

• Affiliate Marketing Campaigns · Flipkart2018-03 – 2018-08

  Made INR 2 Cr in revenue during my 3rd year in college (2018) in a span of 4 months, using affiliate marketing (Flipkart & Amazon affiliate), and that too with absolutely 0 marketing costs. (100% organic).

Education

• Harvard Business SchoolDisruptive Innovation
• ReforgeGrowth Series, Growth Engineering
• University of Virginia Darden School of BusinessDigital Product Management, Business Administration and Management, General
• University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignStrategic Innovation, Business
• Chitkara UniversityGraduation, Computer Science Engineering
• Neil Patel Advanced Marketing ProgramDigital Marketing
• SEO THAT WORKS 3.0Advanced SEO
• Delhi Public School - IndiaXIIth Non-MED
• St. Theresa's Convent Sr. Sec. SchoolXth Class

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