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How to Have Impact
Talks about Complexity, Impact and Decision Making
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Vishal Kapur
Founder of Leap
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Vishal Kapur is the Co-founder & CTO at Leap, a role that showcases his expertise in scalability, web development, and software engineering. With a background that includes serving as the Co-Founder & CTO of Screenhero, Inc. (Acquired by Slack) and Chief Architect at Truveo (Acquired by AOL), Vishal has a proven track record of success in building and leading innovative tech companies.
Work Experience
Co-founder & CTO
2021 - 2024
Building products to help solve the loneliness epidemic among people 55+
Member
2018 - 2021
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
Senior Engineering Manager
2015 - 2017
Helping build real-time communication (voice, video and screen sharing) at Slack.
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Co-Founder & CTO
2013 - 2014
Screenhero (YC W2013) is simple, collaborative screen sharing and voice chat. It's better than working in the same room -- with co-workers, family and friends. We were acquired by Slack in Jan 2015.
CTO
2010 - 2012
A remote desktop client for iOS and Mac. You can control your computer at home or work, from anywhere in the world.
iTeleport offers an application that enables its users to access and control their PCs.
Member
2010 - 2012
Founder
2009 - 2012
iOS and Mac OS applications including PandaBar, a Mac app to play Pandora in your menu bar.
Chief Architect
2005 - 2009
Software Engineer, Architect and Senior Software Development Manager responsible for the video crawling technology and infrastructure at Truveo.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
2002 - 2005
Developed web management system for real-time performance monitoring for clustered databases.
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Education
Master's degree
2001 - 2002
B.S.
1997 - 2001
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