Success doesn’t usually come along a simple path, and that was definitely true for Shan Sinha. He was raised by a single mom in Texas, fell in love with technology, went to M.I.T., dropped out to do a startup, and …
Failed.
He went back to M.I.T. But of course that’s not the end of the story, or he wouldn’t be on this podcast. He got a job at Microsoft, left to start another company, and this time struck gold – by eventually selling that company to Google in 2010. Now he’s the founder and CEO of yet another business – Highfive, a video conferencing outfit that’s breaking new ground.
I don’t like straight lines. My career hasn’t traveled in one, and chances are, yours hasn’t either. So I love when I get to explore the stories of people who started out at a disadvantage. Or struck out a few times before hitting that home run. That, I can learn from.
147 - New Life for Fortt Knox on LinkedIn and YouTube. See You There!
146 - AWS CEO Andy Jassy on JEDI, the Cloud's Future and More
145 - Trump and Apple’s CEO Talk Business in Texas
144 - A Fresh Look at Design: Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva
143 - Microsoft JEDI: The Empire Strikes Back; with Morgan Brennan
142 - Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington: with John Stanton and Farhad Manjoo
141 - Tech's Free Speech Challenge
140 - Savings and Startups: Credit Carma CEO Ken Lin; Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman
139 - Microsoft's Dual-Screen Surface: Winner? With Patrick Moorhead
138 - When to Fire a Founder, with Walter Isaacson and Steven Levy
137 - Employees or Contractors? Gig Economy’s Labor Crisis
136 - Apple's iPhone 11 and More: Boom or Bust?
135 - Can Tech Save the NFL? Plus, Rapper Jim Jones on His New Pot Venture
134 - Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt; Plus, Marvel’s Spider-Man Divorce and Streaming Wars
133 - Goodbye IPO, Hello Direct Listing?
132 - The WeWork IPO: Why the Controversy?
131 - Apple Card: How the Cash and Features Stack Up
130 - Monopoly: Are Apple, Google, Facebook & Amazon Fair Game?
129 - Facebook’s $5 billion speeding ticket, with NYT's Farhad Manjoo
128 - Putting a Dollar Value on Personal Data, with CNBC's Josh Lipton
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