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How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies


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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


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HNM LiveBy James Hicks