Hello, I'm Omkar Chavan
A courageous human daring to dream, build and learn at the intersection of entrepreneurship, capital markets, design, technology and craft.
A curious human chasing his goals and ideas to change the world.
Acurated collection of my passions, curiosities, interests and hobbies. When I'm not building SplitIn around the clock. You'll likely find me behind the camera, reading a book or reading up on capital markets, playing Chess/CScz/FIFA/COD or out on a bike ride..
I care about end users - about the small frictions a thoughtful product can dissolve, and the long compounding curves that come from showing up daily. I write, I shoot, I model spreadsheets, and I keep a running notebook of ideas that I may never ship and a few that will.
This site is the closest thing I have to a workshop window: photographs, essays, books I'm reading, videos I'm rewatching, code I'm shipping, and the companies I'm monitoring. Look around.
A toolkit of disciplines
Creative
Engineering
Finance
Creative Writing
A few stops along the way
San Francisco, all in
Running outbound GTM for SplitIn from SF — building the buy side and the sell side at the same time, searching for PMF, completely bootstrapped.
Full time on SplitIn
Quit the investing side gig, stopped everything else and went all in. Learned system design, database architecture and UX the only way that sticks: by building.
The problem is born
A final family trip to Ladakh before moving to the US — while hunting roommates, a home and a visa appointment, the problem SplitIn solves today finally took shape. That late fall I became one of the early users of ChatGPT.
A "real job", briefly
Four months at a fintech startup. The experience was underwhelming, but I learned a lot about how products actually get made.
Masters in Mumbai
US counsellors said I was too early for Quantitative Finance, so I did a Masters in Banking & Finance in Mumbai instead. Made good money as a teenager, lost a chunk pre-covid, and learned Python for data science to "one up Wall Street". Stumbled onto Y Combinator while searching for an Airbnb.
Undergrad in Financial Markets
Chose a Bachelors in Financial Markets to learn capital markets properly — while quietly analysing startups, because India was booming and the tech kid inside never left.
First money in the market
Started investing after learning about the ESOPs my father received. Peter Lynch, D.E. Shaw, Howard Marks, Ben Graham, Warren Buffett and John C. Bogle turned curiosity into obsession.
First camera in hand
A Canon 1000D and a father who photographed professionally as a side gig. Self-taught the basics, one frame at a time.
Factory floors and bank halls
A school field trip to a biscuit manufacturing production line — and Saturdays at SBI headquarters with dad.
First computer
A dial-up connection and Windows 98. The day software products stopped being magic and started being fascinating.
Born
The starting line.
What I'm into this season
Let's build together
worth remembering.
Whether it's a product, a photo walk, venture investing or a quiet conversation about markets, music, technology — my inbox is open.