How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies

Today’s guest = Shirish Nadkarni A serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15+ million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by BlackBerry in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users. Shirish started his career at Microsoft where here engineered the acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.Com which became a leading web portal in the early days of the internet. Follow Shirish on social: https://www.shirishnadkarni.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirishn/ https://twitter.com/shirishn?lang=en Get the new book, Winner Takes All here - https://geni.us/pvGh5 (Amazon) CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - Shirish Nadkarni Background