My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur Featuring Krish Ramakrishnan – Transforming industries by coming up with business ideas and creating successful startups!

As a serial entrepreneur, how do you repeatedly succeed at a feat that eludes some of the largest and well-funded businesses in the world that is coming up with business ideas that transform industries. This is what Krish has been able to do in his entrepreneurial journey. By looking at where technology trends are going, and at the conversion of a couple of these trends, Krish has been able to find an opportunity, a pain point, two or three years down the road that you need to solve for a customer. This is how Krish founded Blue Jeans Network back in 2009 to make video conferencing as comfortable and as casual as your pair of jeans and Verizon acquired it in May, 2020.

Now branded as BlueJeans by Verizon, the company provides an interoperable cloud-based video conferencing service that connects participants across a wide range of devices and conferencing platforms. Over the years, company has garnered a number of industry awards for their products and services including G2 Crowd for Video Conferencing, positioned in the Gartner Visionaries Quadrant for the Fourth Year in a Row Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute and many others.

Join us for this inspiring talk, ask all your questions, learn from the experiences of a highly successful entrepreneur who is known for building and scaling successful companies, and connect with other aspiring entrepreneurs virtually on Tuesday May 18, 2021.

About Krish Ramakrishnan

Mr. Ramakrishnan is the co-founder and first CEO of BlueJeans Network which was acquired by Verizon in May of 2020. At Verizon, Krish leads the market expansion of BlueJeans into new areas such as Telehealth, Remote learning and 5G. Krish has been founder and CEO of successful startup ventures, including Topspin, a datacenter virtualization player (acquired by Cisco in 2005) and Internet Junction (acquired by Cisco in 1995). Krish served as general manager for various business units at Cisco for over 10 years. Krish currently serves as a trustee of Landmark College in Vermont. In 2019, Krish was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Monmouth University where he was the commencement speaker for the graduate school.

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So, you want to know how she did it? What are her secrets and learnings that you can apply in your business and startups too? Then come and join us for this inspiring talk virtually on Tuesday, May 18, 2021

TiE Host:
Naveen Bisht, Chair, My Story Program, TiE Silicon Valley

Schedule:
6:00 PM – Introduction and Program
6:40 PM - Q & A
7:00 PM- Adjourn

For more information contact:

Vrushali Malpekar [email protected]

My Story – TiE SV Original Program

This talk is part of TiE SV’s monthly program “My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur” to celebrate entrepreneurship and bring stories from successful entrepreneurs in their own words that are both inspiring and educational. The invited speaker(s) share their entrepreneurial journey and talk about lessons learnt, mistakes they wish they avoided and key decisions that helped make their venture successful. Besides questions from the moderator, audience questions are encouraged.