Meet Sushant Hiray, Senior Director of Machine Learning at RingCentral

RingCentral is a three-billion-dollar company offering cloud-based solutions for businesses, including video conferencing, voice calls, SMS, and other communication services.

In this episode, we discuss how Sushant's victory at a hackathon became the starting point for his startup, which was later acquired by RingCentral. We also explore how hackathons are evolving into a key format for launching new businesses. Much like the 'Idol' contest was a new way to generate superstars, could hackathons, where potential customers and venture capitalists participate, be the next big thing for producing successful startups? I was so inspired after our conversation I could barely fall a sleep that night!