Sprint 1 Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker
When: Wednesday, September 3, 8:00 am. Don't be late!
Where: Green Center, Metals Hall. All full-class meetings will be in this room.
What: Pooja Sankar will present her journey and founding of Piazza.
The idea for Piazza began at an entrepreneurship class at Stanford. As Piazza’s profile in the Stanford community grew, Sankar was introduced to a new network of players, including investors, and eventually raised an angel round of funding. Today, the platform is used by five million students across 2,000 universities spanning 90 countries.
Pooja Sankar’s life story begins in a village in India. She became a computer scientist and started Piazza to solve the problems she had as one of only three women in her classes. She holds an undergraduate Computer Science degree from IIT, India, a Masters Computer Science degree from University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
