Dec 7, 2016, 2:30 – 5:30 AM (UTC)
Pivotal Labs, 1333 2nd Street Suite 200, Santa Monica, 90401
Rahul founded thePlatform in 2000, which offered an industrial-strength online video management system that was utilized by Verizon, Microsoft, Hulu, Qualcomm & Comcast, who acquired the company in 2006 for over $100m. Rahul’s next company, Geodelic, offered a location based content discovery and mobile commerce service that was adopted by Verizon, Universal Theme Parks, and Korea Telecom.
Rahul has been active in technology and startups since the 90s. He founded his first startup, thePlatform in 2000, which offered an industrial-strength online video management system. This became the backend for services by Verizon, Microsoft, Hulu, Qualcomm as well as Comcast, who acquired the company in 2006 for over $100m. Rahul’s next company, Geodelic, offered a location based content discovery and mobile commerce service that was adopted by Verizon, Universal Studios Theme Parks, and Korea Telecom. Before startups, Rahul worked as an engineering manager at Adobe and at Microsoft, first as a product designer for MS Word, and later as the R&D Manager for all the Asian versions of MS office, a $1B suite of products. He attended the Harvard Business School’s MBA program, received a Masters in Computer Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, and a BS in anthropology from UPenn.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
2:30 AM – 5:30 AM (UTC)
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