Resume

Paramendra Bhagat

USA
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www.paramendra.xyz
twitter.com/paramendra
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Skills:

(1) Can help a tech startup get on a hypergrowth trajectory if product-market fit has already been achieved. (2) Strategist who can help a business get on a hypergrowth trajectory if there is a tech component; can help with AI onboarding. (3) Great digital marketer. (4) Writer (5) Copywriter (6) Political Strategist (7) Spiritual Guide (8) Corporate Culture Architect (9) Born Leader with a track record, Visionary (10) Team Builder.

Work Experiences:

❖ Tech Startups
1. (Stealth): 2025.
2. ➢ TrendyLiving, 2019, real estate tech startup.
3. ➢ Tech Consulting, on and off, 2007-2015.
4. ➢ Advisor, Sagoon (social startup focused on Nepal that got much of the Nepali diaspora excited), Twiingle (a Harvard Medical School grad, Wall Street small bit player’s attempt to go into “funny money”), Busicopy (a Nepali IT consultant’s foray into the tech startup; kind of like an apple farmer wanting to now make apple sauce), PayCheckr (a button).
5. ➢ Chief Yoda, TicketMonkey, became Ruckus and had an exit.
6. ➢ JyotiConnect, the concept of an IC, Internet Computer, a barebones laptop with only a browser, raised 100K before the 2008 crash (the unspent 90K was returned to the investors in December 2008 when it became too obvious round 2 will not be raised in a very tough environment post-crash), pitched to Google Ventures and materialized as the Chromebook. No offense taken. The idea was too obvious.
7. ➢ BlueTree.net, pay bar in 1998, remote work decades before the pandemic.
8. ➢ Web Producer, Chaitime.com. Philadelphia 1999. South Asian online community, five years before Facebook.

❖ Sales/Marketing
1. ➢ Smartphone sales: 2023-24.
2. ➢ Digital Marketing: 2024-

❖ Digital Marketing
1. ➢ Won an “Oscar” in digital marketing. Was declared Top Influencer by Adobe at the Social Media Week 2012, the top global event in the space happening simultaneously in 27 major cities around the world, reaching more than 700 million people today.
2. ➢ Top Photographer, Google Maps, 48 million views. (That happens to exceed the population of my native Nepal!)
3. ➢ Avid blogger since 2004: Netizen, Barackface, Democracy For Nepal. More than 10,000 blog posts online, 10 million page views. Avid writer for long before that.
4. ➢ Active on most major social media platforms.
5. ➢ A top person on Twitter in NYC.

❖ Writing
1. ➢ Have more than 30 books on Amazon.

Education:

❖ Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts), Berea College, May 2001. The number one college in the US South whose endowment per student matches that of Harvard. Was established as an anti-slavery institution during the time of Lincoln. Work-study. No American student who does not need financial aid gets in.
1. ➢ I changed my major so many times they had to give me an extra year so I could finish up. Mathematics, Economics, Political Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology (I studied gender to grasp the social structures of racism and sexism).
2. ➢ Got elected student body president within six months of landing as an international student. I won an election in the US South almost a decade before Bobby Jindal.

❖ Budhanilkantha School, the top school in Nepal founded and run by the British whose graduates have ended up at all top colleges/universities/companies across the US. Spring 1993. Graduated from Cambridge University A-Levels in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and General Studies.
1. ➢ Top student in class seven of the 10 years.
2. ➢ House Captain in Grade 5 and Grade 10. About the Grade 10 year a British teacher wrote, “I have never seen morale raised this high at any boarding house anywhere before!”
3. ➢ School mental arithmetic champion in middle school.
4. ➢ Won Best Actor award in middle school.
5. ➢ Won a Pentathlon award in Grade 10. Made it to most soccer teams while at school.
6. ➢ Won a nationwide art competition (watercolor) in Grade 4. Got a poem published in the top poetry magazine in the country in Grade 10.
7. ➢ SAT score: 1450/1600

Volunteer:

1. ❖ Senapati, Kalki Sena, 2022-
2. ❖ Barack Obama’s first full-time volunteer in NYC.
3. ❖ The only full-timer among the then estimated 200,000 Nepalis across the US to have worked for Nepal’s democracy and social justice movements in 2005 and 2006.
4. ❖ A Deaniac in Indiana in 2004. Howard Dean’s brother’s question to me in NYC a year later: “What was a Deaniac doing in Indiana!?”

2015, 2019, 2021 (Pictures)