Rahul Mallapur
FounderFounder at Blitzllama
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedBlitzllama · YC
About
Rahul Mallapur is the founder of Blitzllama, a platform that collects product feedback and app store reviews, then uses AI to analyze and categorize insights for product teams.
Rahul Mallapur @rahul_mallapur
This was one of the core thesis of starting Blitzllama - building products is getting faster but figuring out what to build is not. AI has accelerated software dev, so features ship in hours, while product work still takes days. A corollary is as teams ship features more https://t.co/SCL6tFg6xX
Jan 4, 2026 · ♥ 1
Rahul Mallapur @rahul_mallapur
Big personal news: Blitzllama is acquired by VWO! We saw an inflection in the need for frequent, high-quality user research and started Blitzllama to build user research agents that deliver actionable insights at speed and scale. With the acquisition, Blitzllama’s product will
Dec 24, 2025 · ♥ 1
Rahul Mallapur @rahul_mallapur
GPT Ladder from Elad’s latest blog. In addition, I think the evolution in each of these markets is in how long a GPT can work on its own. Right now, companies are building the scaffolding (evals and orchestration) and using GPTs to do tasks that take a few human minutes. Over https://t.co/vwkFb4hQmG
Jul 28, 2025
Founder at BlitzllamaYC W22
Intro paths
Rahul went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- SalientProduct & Growth Lead2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- Blitzllama (by VWO)Cofounder & CEO2021 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Arena12Co-Founder2020 — 2021Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- GetMegaProduct2019 — 2020Greater Bengaluru Area
- ZyngaProduct2017 — 2019Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- TinystepHead of Product & Founding Member2015 — 2017Bangalore
- TargetBusiness Analyst2014 — 2015Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Education
- Y CombinatorW22
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayMaster of Technology - MTech, Mechanical Engineering2009 — 2014
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayBachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering2009 — 2013
- IIT Bombay - Shailesh J. Mehta School of ManagementMinor, Management2010 — 2013
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MongoDBLanguages English · Hindi · Konkani · Marathi
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Also worked at Salient3
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Also worked at GetMega1
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