Marko Gargenta
Founder of PlusPlus
Marko Gargenta
Founder of PlusPlus
Burlingame, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2016 - Current
Member
2019
F19
Member
2015
Angel investor and member.
Board Of Directors
2016 - 2019
Member
2016 - 2018
Academic Advisor
2015 - 2017
Helping UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering with the creation of the Innovation and Leadership through Positive Psychology leadership development program.
Director of Twitter University
2013 - 2015
Built Twitter University and created a culture of learning where engineers learn from one another.
Board Member - Learning Chair
2011 - 2014
Responsible for organizing learning events for the San Francisco chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization.
CEO and Cofounder
2001 - 2013
Marko Gargenta has started Marakana in 2001 and built it into a global organization. Marakana provides Fortune 500 clients and governments with information technology training services focusing on open technologies.
Cofounder
1997 - 2000
Built a Java enterprise software company at the peak of the dotcom. Crashed it just as hard. Had fun and learned a lot.
Software Developer
1996 - 1997
Built a prototype of a Java-based real-time training system so brokers can see the status of each order in their browser as it gets executed on the exchange.
Education
B. Math
1994 - 1999
Latest Articles
Why Hiring More Is Slowing You Down
Talks about Engineering, Engineering Mangement and Learning And Development