Co-host
Gowri Shankar
A serial entrepreneur and experienced executive who has grown companies and teams. Strong business development professional, skilled in SAAS, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, E-commerce and Venture Capital.
From Startup to Exit
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Contributors
Co-host
Shirish Nadkarni
Shirish is a serial entrepreneur and a pioneer in e-mail technology and online education. He has developed consumer technologies that have been used by tens of millions of users worldwide. He successfully founded 3 companies and achieved exits with 2 publicly held companies. Major accomplishments include:
- Co-Founder of Livemocha, the world's largest language learning site with over 15 million registered members. Livemocha was selected as Time Magazine Top 50 sites in 2010 and won the prestigious English Speaking Union award presented by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone.
- Founder of TeamOn Systems, an innovative developer of wireless e-mail technologies. Successfully negotiated acquisition by Research In Motion. The TeamOn technology was the foundation for BlackBerry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million mobile users.
- Contributed to RIM’s early growth in the wireless device market through a partnership with T-Mobile.