Vasily Starostenko Fractional CPO
The problem: most startups need a Chief Product Officer years before they can justify hiring one. Founders end up doing product themselves between investor calls — the roadmap drifts, priorities multiply, and the product team gets direction by memo instead of leadership. Hiring a full-time CPO is a long search and a huge bet; going without one is a slow leak in every decision you make.
Why Vasily: twenty years of product leadership at Uber, Tesla, Waymo, and Revolut — including Head of Product at Revolut, reporting directly to the founder and CEO, leading 100+ teams through a multi-billion-dollar scale-up. He has been the person setting product direction at every stage of company growth: founding his own companies (Digi Cambodia, Lightfish), directing product at Reputation.com, owning driver-side product at Uber, scaling Model 3 sales systems at Tesla, commercializing autonomy at Waymo. That range is the whole point of a fractional engagement.
What you get: a fractional CPO who joins your operating rhythm — roadmap ownership, prioritization, team coaching, hiring support — without the full-time cost or commitment. Engagements flex: ongoing monthly leadership, a deep product strategy review, help hiring your first product people, or interim leadership through a transition or launch.
The proof: fractional CPO work is part of his professional practice (noted on his Wellfound angel profile alongside consulting), backed by a career that moved from founder to operator to the top product seat at one of Europe's defining scale-ups. He has made the calls you are avoiding — and knows which ones actually matter.
Fractional product leadership is already part of his professional practice — his Wellfound angel profile notes fractional CPO work alongside consulting through officehours.com/vasily. The model suits him: founders get a veteran product leader in the room for the decisions that matter, without the nine-month search or the full-time commitment. Engagements are structured around your cadence — weekly operating rhythm, key decisions, board preparation — and they end with your team stronger than when they started, because a fractional CPO who creates dependency has failed the job.
Contact Vasily Starostenko Phone: +1 (650) 523-4953 — tap the call button on this page to reach him directly. Priority scheduling ($2,000 to speed up scheduling): https://buy.stripe.com/aEUdTVbwtfjn5A49AA Every engagement is confidential, tailored, and focused on measurable outcomes.
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