Nitya Vaidya

Product Manager & Former Founder

A 0 → 1 builder who has shipped AI products at scale.

  • Co-founder & CEO 2024 — 2026

    paperplane

    AI-native product analytics that made products self-improving

    • Concept to paying users in 3 weeks, 5-figure USD MRR by month four
    • Built agents that read behavioral data, found where users got stuck, and built the fix
    • Led a team of 7 across product, engineering and go-to-market
    Technical
    Agent orchestration, retrieval workflows, evals
    Everything else
    Product, design, sales & GTM
  • First product hire 2023 — 2024

    superjoin & upsurge

    internships at early-stage teams

    • Built internal engineering tools, shipped new features, owned onboarding & retention
    • Lifted onboarding completion 15 points, cut integration deployment time by 30%, and brought support tickets down with it
  • Director of Innovation 2022 — 2023

    founders

    non-profit

    • Helped build an accelerator that worked with 150+ startups
    • Led a 100-person organization
    • Launched 5 new programs across the US

Pottery

Meditative
I enjoy the process of creation

Vinyl

For the joy in the analog

Animal conservation

I volunteer with wild animal rescue

Rowing

Coxed a varsity eight, now sculling in a single

In progress

Notes on product, agents, and lessons from building Paperplane.