Gaurav brings deep operating experience as VP of Product at two major observability platforms, Splunk and Elastic, where he scaled both companies from early stage to IPOs and led product management, developer relations, and cloud offerings before joining Lightspeed. He focuses on bottoms-up, viral adoption models in observability, data infrastructure, and AI, publicly sharing detailed investment frameworks and inviting early-stage founders to brainstorm directly via his email rather than taking a purely financial investor approach. Gaurav brings deep operating experience as VP of Product at two major observability platforms, Splunk and Elastic, where he scaled both companies from early stage to IPOs and led product management, developer relations, and cloud offerings before joining Lightspeed. He focuses on bottoms-up, viral adoption models in observability, data infrastructure, and AI, publicly sharing detailed investment frameworks and inviting early-stage founders to brainstorm directly via his email rather than taking a purely financial investor approach.