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Presentation on
Rashmi Sinha – Founder of Slide Share
S.K. PATEL INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND COMPUTER STUDIES(MBA)
Gandhinagar ,Gujarat
SUBJECT: Entrepreneurship PRESENTED TO: Prof.( Dr.) Krupa Mehta
Development
Introduction
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Allahabad University
Occupation Businesswoman, CEO
Founder SlideShare
Awards Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs (Fortune)
EDUCATION PHD, PG IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FROM
ALAHABAD
•Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of san Francisco-based technology
company Slide Share. In 2012, Fortune named her No. 8 on its Most Powerful Women
Entrepreneurs list. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women
Influencers in Web 2.0 by FAST COMPANY.
•In January 2015, The Economic Times , India's leading business publication, listed her as
one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
• Rashmi writes about social software and entrepreneurship at her blog; [Link]. She is
involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture
Society, and co-chairs the monthly Bay CHI talk series.
Slide share journey
Rashmi always wanted to make a meaningful impact by ideating something new and big. After lot of
brainstorming with her husband, Jon; they observed that there is no website that exclusively caters shared
PowerPoint presentations. People used to share presentations via emails, pen drives and hard drives but
there wasn’t a one-step repository to it. In early 2006, Rashmi along with her software engineer husband,
Jon and mechanical engineer brother, Amit Ranjan ideated SlideShare. SlideShare was live in early
October of 2006.
She then left academia at the University of California to start her own user-experience consultancy.
Deciding that she enjoyed practical problems more, she co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting
company and worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, AAA etc. Her first foray into
products was with Mind Canvas (a game-like software for customer research) released in November 2005.
Simultaneously, Rashmi and her husband, with the help of her older brother Amit Ranjan, built
SlideShare, a site for people to share presentations online, in just six months. Since its launch in 2006,
more than 9 million presentations have been uploaded to SlideShare, helping professionals connect
through content. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for over $100 million in 2012.
SlideShare started operating in two offices – at San Francisco with 8 employees and Delhi with 20
employees.
It soon became famous globally with entries of thousands of PowerPoint presentations each day. Audience
perceived SlideShare as next generation business media site that revolved around presentations that play
pivotal part in corporate world and business. Unlike other content driven websites, SlideShare doesn’t have
content creators. The users are content creators. The website generated organic traffic and wasn’t used for
advertisements. It underwent enormous growth at a very fast pace which makes her a proud owner.
Rashmi Sinha, who is an active blogger, writes about social software and entrepreneurship at her blog;
[Link]. She also shares her thoughts about people, technology and running a company. She
keeps motivating and influencing people across the world through her writings in the blogs. Many, indeed,
have been inspired by her talks on search interfaces and recommender systems, designing great websites
and marketing and social media. Rashmi Sinha has broken the glass ceiling in the realm of technology by
heading in the race with the male counterparts. Sinha who was trained as a scientist got interested in
designing technology and has started multiple companies. She also serves as a Venture Advisor at 500
Startups.
Achievements
• In 2008, she was in list of top 10 women influencers in Web 2.0 by
Fast Company.
• In 2012, Fortune named her no. 8 on its most powerful
businesswoman entrepreneurs list.
• The Economic times listed her in one of the 20 most influential
global Indian women in January 2015.
• In May 2012, LinkedIn had absorbed SlideShare for $119 Million. It
had 9 Million presentations and 29 Million unique visitors. Rashmi
runs SlideShare as a unit of LinkedIn as head of product, technology
and marketing team. Under her leadership, SlideShare has 70 Million
unique visitors a month and 38 Million registered users today.
• Rashmi Sinha’s urge to impact the world and her vigor in business
makes her a successful entrepreneur. Her leadership attributes and
vision to promote She Leads is inspirational and something that
future entrepreneurs need to learn from.
THANK YOU
