About Akul

Hi there 👋

I'm Akul Dewan, a growth marketer passionate about startups and great products.

I love growing product-led businesses and believe success comes by bringing together deep product understanding, remarkable storytelling, and robust go-to-market strategies. That's when everyone wins and wins more.

I've lead growth marketing, partnerships, and customer success teams in B2B fintech and SaaS scale-ups, and am fortunate enough to hold a 2/2 record in exits 🤞

My Operating Principles 🧭

1. Index towards the long run – for customers, the people around me, and myself
2. Be real – bring 100% into everything I do; don’t be afraid to show real emotions
3. Always learning – investing time, space, and energy to learn and improve
4. Radical open mindedness – bias towards listening; hear the counterargument
5. Process (often) beats genius – strokes of genius distract (and usually aren’t that great)

A bit more about me

I currently live in Cambridge, UK 🇬🇧 together with my incredible partner, Cadence. Cadence is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge.

I was born in India 🇮🇳, grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩, and spent a significant number of my years as an adult in Singapore 🇸🇬.

I find it essential to work on myself and be a better version of myself, everyday. This drives me to take better care of my physical and mental health and try to incrementally get better across the different spheres of my life.

I love listening to swing-era jazz, dancing Lindy Hop, keeping up with new video games, or trying to find the next great book to read.

Hit me up on LinkedIn or Twitter.