Engineering is often an enigma. In the following interview with Semil Shah of TechCrunch we chat about how I discovered engineering, then startup land, and …
Engineering is often an enigma. In the following interview with Semil Shah of TechCrunch we chat about how I discovered engineering, then startup land, and how I’m trying to demystify it through mentoring and blogging.
I originally joined Mint.com as a founding engineer because I wanted to learn how to setup a company, and experience the entire process of software product development (ideation, prototype, and launch).
When I’m not building I’m doing yoga. I have been practicing for 8 years now, and I’ve also done some tech consulting for studios. During my time consulting and volunteering I saw a number of these community businesses struggle with managing their interactions with their customers. The biggest problem being customer retention. After searching for technology solutions to help these community businesses, and not finding many that met their needs I started building BizeeBee.
I’ve already built for consumers (Mint.com) and enterprise (Synopsys). I wanted to tackle a group that was being underserved by the tech community. Basically I like creating products that solve a real need, and I saw one in this space.
Couple corrections while I did “dropout” of my Masters at Stanford, I do have a BSEE from Duke University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
