Success Made to Last Legends profiles Shirish Nadkarni, author, entrepreneur!

Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.  Striking out on his own in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom, he founded TeamOn Systems, an early pioneer of mobile email that was later acquired by BlackBerry before becoming BlackBerry Internet Email servicing over 50 million users at its peak. After a family trip to Spain rife with language barrier snafus, Shirish launched the first social language learning app Livemocha and grew it to over 15 million members in 200 different countries before it was acquired by Rosetta Stone. What makes a great startup idea?What are VCs looking for in a pitch? The ins and outs of the fundraising process How to sell your company or go public: the pros and cons of an IPO vs Direct Listing vs SPACsWhy the best startup opportunities occur when your industry is undergoing a dramatic transformationHow to develop a business model that extracts the most value for your business  How to establish a company culture in a post-COVID worldHow to hire and fire effectively, from junior positions to the CEOManaging downturns: Why you should be flexible with customers and transparent with employeesInspiring startup stories: Icertis, Snowflake, OfferUp, Apptio, UlPath, and more  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.