ESP Biography
VISHNU TEJUS, Building a Stanford-led startup called Nooks
Major: Computer Science/EH&S College/Employer: Stanford Year of Graduation: 2026 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
A group of Stanford researchers and I are building Nooks – a virtual sales floor. 🏠 We help remote teams recreate the buzz of being in an office together. Here's more to the story 🌻 1️⃣ I'm working on how deep learning systems can reason. To help more people do cutting-edge research, Used to work at the Stanford WHIL Lab on computer vision. 2️⃣ My team at Carnegie Mellon and I were finalists in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition. We built an Android app that teaches kids the 3 R's: reading, writing & arithmetic. 3️⃣ I was fortunate to lead a team of 10 software engineers and Stanford interns. In 6 months, we built a disaster management system with the amazing Flutter framework & Google Cloud. ✨ let's connect on LinkedIn Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C7725: Building a VC-backed startup straight out of Stanford CS in Splash Spring 2022 (May. 14 - 15, 2022)
How do you work the levers of product-led growth?
And how can you sell SaaS to your first customers... and get to $1MM annual recurring revenue (ARR) – eventually raising a Series A?
Here's what this class will cover 👇
1️⃣ Bring an entrepreneurial bent to your CS skills and optimize *what you can learn* from people using your software.
2️⃣ Build a go-to-market (GTM) plan
- how do you design sprints to get engineering work done
- how do you quickly get customers *most important*
- how do you close deals and show results
3️⃣ Know when you have product market fit & should raise a Series A
From Stanford’s AI Lab to the world of cold calling, bring your startup ideas and hear stories of funny last min engineering failures... and success!
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