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5. RASHMI SINHA
Founder and CEO, SlideShare
Rashmi Sinha is a designer, researcher, and entrepreneur who founded
SlideShare in 2006 to let users upload and share their work and
presentations with the world. The company was acquired by LinkedIn in
2012 for $119 million, and it now sees over 60 million unique visitors a month.
Before founding SlideShare, Sinha co-founded Uzanto, a consulting
company that worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, and
AAA, and then MindCanvas, a game-like software for customer research.
6. SUNDAR PICHAI
Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome and Apps,
Google
Sundar Pichai, formerly only in charge of Chrome, got a promotion in March
2013 to head up Android, taking over the role of Android founder Andy
Rubin.
The vast majority (nearly 80%) of smartphone owners are Android users,
which makes Pichai’s job even more important. Android is becoming more
hospitable to developers as it becomes less fragmented, and as Android app
sales bring in more revenue.
7. AARTHI RAMAMURTHY
Founder, Lumoid
Aarthi Ramamurthy is one of the most notable female entrepreneurs out
there today. She spent six years at Microsoft working on its Visual Studio
software development tool and on Xbox Live.
Before founding Y Combinator-backed Lumoid, a startup for letting
people test-drive electronics before buying them, she co-founded a brafitting company called True&Co.
8. KRISHNA SUBRAMANIAN
Founder, Stealth Product
Since he dropped out of medical school to pursue entrepreneurship, Krishna
Subramanian co-founded a recommendation site called Burrp!, which was
acquired by Mumbai’s Network 18 in 2010 and BlueLithium, an online ad
network that sold to Yahoo! in 2007 for $300 million.
He’s most recently known for co-founding the mobile ad exchange network
Mobclix, which sold to Velti, a large mobile ad company, for upwards of $50
million in 2010. He became Velti’s CMO in 2011 and worked there until after
he helped take the company public in September 2013. In October, he left
Velti — which ran into financial difficulty — to work on a stealth startup.
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