Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta (Pulse) - What You Learn by Doing

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2013

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Pulse Co-Founders Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta were curious Stanford graduate students always interested in taking on side projects to learn something new. In this light-hearted and insightful lecture, Kothari and Gupta discuss their experiences integrating what they learned into developing an elegant product, which eventually led to their startup's acquisition by LinkedIn.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	So it's my sincere pleasure to welcome today two founders of a very cool company called Pulse.
0:23.6	How many of you are familiar with Pulse? Hands up if you run into it.
0:27.6	How about that guys? You've got like more market share than everybody but Facebook.
0:32.6	So Akshay and Onkid are going to take over from here. They've got a very interesting presentation, and then as you know, you'll have plenty of time for questions and answers.
0:41.3	Welcome our guest today.
0:43.3	Thanks, everyone.
0:44.3	Thanks a lot.
0:49.3	Really, really excited to be here.
0:53.3	It's always a pleasure to be back on campus.
0:58.0	I think we need more opportunities to come back.
1:00.0	But thanks a lot for the lovely introduction.
1:03.0	And for those of you who did not raise your hands,
1:06.0	you have one in our to download Pulse.
1:09.0	Because I want a full raise of hands the end of the presentation.
1:13.6	But today, so hi, I'm Ankhith.
1:17.6	I'm Akshay.
1:19.6	We met at Stanford, became really, really good friends,
1:23.6	and started Pulse in the last quarter of our studies, of our grad school here.
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