Manish Chandra (Poshmark) - Channeling an Adaptive Mindset

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Throughout his career, Manish Chandra, founder and CEO at Poshmark, learned to evolve, grow and adapt to the economical and career changes he faced. His vision for a mobile shopping platform was ahead of its time. Chandra shares his thoughts on how to persevere in the face of doubt, how to partner with founders that share a common goal and why focusing on engagement and community is critical for scaling successfully.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.7	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:10.6	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:16.6	On today's episode, we have Mnish Chandra, founder and CEO of Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes.
0:25.1	Prior to his success with Poshmark, Manish was the founder of Caboodle, another social shopping company.
0:31.2	Here's Manish.
0:41.4	Thank you.
0:48.6	So what I'm going to talk to you a little bit about is sort of something that isn't talked about as much, which is love and how it impacts the growth of your business.
0:53.3	I understand a lot of you are engineering
0:55.8	students and I'm at one day I was sort of one myself which was studying computer science.
1:02.1	But today sort of what we are doing is really helping in a broad sense people sell shoes and
1:08.0	clothes across the country. And so I'm going to share a little bit about
1:11.4	my journey from being a database nerd, a computer science graduate, to sort of for the last 10, 12
1:17.9	years building shopping communities, particularly centered around fashion. And today, Pashmark is
1:24.2	actually going beyond fashion into other areas as well.
1:28.5	So before we get started, let me share a little bit about myself.
1:33.3	So I grew up in India.
1:36.1	I was there for the first 19 years of my life.
1:40.3	I came here in 87 when I was 19 years old.
1:43.6	I grew up primarily in multiple different cities.
1:47.0	And I think part of what shaped me was the fact that as I had to move from city to city,
1:54.0	I had to adapt and quickly sort of respond to changing climate.
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