Sprint 4 Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker
When: Wednesday, October 16, 8:00 am. Don't be late!
Where: Green Center, Metals Hall. All full-class meetings will be in this room.
What: Pooja Sankar, founder of Piazza, will give us a talk on her founding story, getting early users, and driving early adoption
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 in Computer Science degree from University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Piazza Q&A is now the premier social learning platform, helping more than 10 million students learn beyond the traditional classroom in more than 2,000 universities spanning 90 countries. Students use Piazza to work together collaboratively despite differences in learning levels, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, and instructors address their questions as they arise. Piazza enables the inclusive learning environment that Sankar wished she had.
Talk:
Sankar will focus on her founding story, getting early users, and driving early adoption.
