Hafiz Dhanani

Took a step back for family medical reasons, traveled, and spent time reflecting on the next phase of my career.

More recently, returned to hands-on building — shipping AI product, technical web, and growth systems work:

== Project: Growth Blueprint (growthblueprint.link) ==

A tracking-QA tool that identifies high-priority gaps to improve attribution for growth teams.

-- Runs a live browser

Recruited to drive user acquisition for a pre-revenue mobile music app, I successfully navigated the unique challenge of scaling without a paid budget, orchestrating an organic growth strategy that drove 100,000+ downloads within the first year.

-- Data & Analytics Infrastructure: Architected the company's entire data foundation from scratch. Worked w/CTO to implement the full tech stack (Amplitu

First growth marketing hire (Employee #5) at a seed-stage healthcare marketplace. Built the patient acquisition engine that became the company's primary growth channel and one of the core validation metrics for our $7M Seed Round.

Business Impact: Channel Economics & Scale

-- Scaled programmatic SEO channel from 29 to a peak of ~2,700 patient applications/month at $0 marginal CAC. (93x, +97% ave

Architected the company's growth function, taking full ownership of audience acquisition and web product strategy across a portfolio of 10+ media brands.

Performance Marketing:

-- Drove 240% subscriber growth (from 50k to 170k) in under a year after engineering a complete turnaround of the Performance Marketing function.

I personally took over the Meta Ads channel from an underperforming and la

As Employee #1, I built the entire growth function from a blank slate, scaling patient acquisition from 0 to 175+ daily visits (annualized GMV from $0 to $2.3M in 8 months) and establishing the company's initial product-market fit.

-- Pre-Launch Strategy & Modeling: I used Google Keyword Planner to forecast acquisition costs and worked with the founder to model the channel's viability against our

- The paid acquisition channels I rapidly validated + launched from scratch and scaled efficiently were responsible for 95%+ of our patient visits.

Owned the email channel for a Sequoia and NFX backed Series A stage marketplace startup (acquired by Thumbtack).

- Generated $1.2MM of pipeline from email in first three months. Previous lifetime pipeline was ~$50K (+24X, +2300%).
- Wrote and designed 30+ email campaigns and launched 5+ A/B tests with statistically significant outcomes.
- Worked cross-functionally with Product, Growth, Operations

Founded a direct-to-consumer cognitive enhancement (nootropic) e-commerce nutraceutical company, which developed and distributed two consumable products as an alternative to coffee and energy drinks using clinically studied ingredients proven to improve cognitive function. Sold to customers in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Led TigerTrek, which brings 20 of Princeton's top engineers and entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley selected from 180+ applicants. Setup meetings with leading CEOs, Founders and investors including John Doerr, Ron Conway, Paul Graham, Jack Dorsey, Meg Whitman, Bill Campbell, Keith Rabois, Don Mattrick, Tim Ferriss, Sal Khan, DJ Patil, and more.

Founded a performance marketing company at age 16, which generated over $100,000 in additional revenue for clients. Created marketing campaigns to deliver tens of thousands of leads and paying customers to companies including Netflix and Groupon. Ran campaigns on Facebook, Bing, and Google, and bought media directly on other sites.

- Designed nontraditional “outside of the box” marketing methods

At Princeton I was formally in the “Religion” department, but took an interdisciplinary approach to studying the existential questions in life.

My aim was to bridge philosophy, psychology, religion and more to move towards a new definition of spirituality without religion. I also studied the secular applications of Buddhist meditation and philosophy/psychology. In my thesis work I wrote about non