Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel and Austin Shoemaker (Cooliris) - The Growth and Bloom of Cooliris

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The team behind Cooliris - CEO Soujanya Bhumkar, Product Manager Josh Schwarzapel, and CTO Austin Shoemaker - discuss in detail the launch and management of their innovative web-discovery business. Topics discussed include cultivating vigorous start-up energy, building monetization into the product, and building an effective and talented team.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:09.0	You can find podcasts and video clips of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my pleasure today to introduce our fabulous guests.
0:23.3	We have the founding team of Cool Iris here.
0:26.5	And I want to introduce, starting on my left, with Sujanya Boomkar, who is the CEO of the company.
0:33.6	He has started several high-tech companies before, and the most notable of which was, well, how can he, what did you?
0:40.3	Well, Wazoo and Tamarin were, I would say, were pretty successful.
0:44.3	Okay, great. So he started several companies, I'm sure we'll hear something about that.
0:48.3	We have Austin Shoemaker, who graduated from Stanford in 2005, and you're not going to believe it.
0:54.2	Look at him.
0:54.6	He doesn't look that old, but he also spent seven years at Apple.
0:58.2	I think he was the youngest intern that was ever there, starting when he was 15.
1:01.9	And in fact, I think he sold his first company when he was 13 years old.
1:06.0	What's that?
1:07.0	There are other people involved.
1:09.0	There were other people involved.
1:10.0	It wasn't just you. Okay.
1:11.6	Well, we won't give you all the credit.
1:12.6	But it's pretty impressive anyway.
1:14.6	And then we've got Josh Schwartzopal, who also was a Mayfield fellow, so I got to know
1:19.6	him quite well over the last few years.
1:21.6	And he is also on the founding team and graduate from Stanford a year and a half ago and was on the Stanford men's volleyball
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