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Mandar Shinde

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Co-Founder at 9 Fig
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Mandar Shinde is the Founder and CEO of Blotout, a Y Combinator-backed company focused on customer data infrastructure. With an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas and past senior roles at Brave, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, he is an expert in solving the paradox between personalization and privacy. People describe him as dedicated, passionate, and intelligent.

Outside of his professional life, Mandar is a husband and father to two boys who grew up playing cricket and soccer. He is also involved in his childrens education, recently taking the initiative to help sponsor VR headsets for his childs French class to enable virtual field trips.

Interesting fact: A personal encounter with a data-driven scam call was a key motivator for him to focus his career on enhancing data privacy and security.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Priorities

Topics Mandar cares about

Privacy vs. Performance
His entire company, Blotout, is built around solving the paradox between data privacy and marketing performance in a cookieless world, a topic he frequently discusses.
First-Party Data
He champions the use of first-party data infrastructure as a survival mechanism for companies, enabling them to own and manage customer data directly and securely.
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Career

Work history

12-2025 - 3-2026
Co-Founder
9 Fig
1-2021
CEO
Blotout
1-2021 - 4-2021
W21 Founder (Verified)
Y Combinator
1-2021 - 2021
Full time
Complii.tech (Acquired by Blotout.io)
5-2020 - 12-2021
Volunteer
ProductNation/iSPIRT
In the press

Media appearances

Mandar Shinde on Turning Privacy Into Performance. Featured in Blotout Blog
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Mandar Shinde of Blotout: 5 Things You Need To Know To Optimize Your Company’s Approach to Data Privacy and Cybersecurity. Featured in Medium (Authority Magazine)
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Education
MBA
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Master's degree
University of Delaware
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