Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman, entrepreneur and scientist. She is the CEO and co-founder of SlideShare. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the top ten female influencers in the world in Web 2.0 by Fast Company. In 2012, she ranked 8th on the list of “Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs” selected by the American business magazine Fortune. She is the CEO and co-founder of SlideShare.
Wiki/Biography
Rashmi Sinha was born in Lucknow, India. Rashmi completed her formal education at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, where she studied for a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology from 1993 to 1998. Prior to this, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Cognitive Science from Allahabad University. During her studies, she took computer science courses with Andy van Dam, which exposed her to HCI (human-computer interaction) thinking. To earn her postdoctoral degree, she studied human-computer interaction at the University of California, Berkeley.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′4″
Weight (approximately): 55kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father and mother are from Lucknow. Rashmi Sinha co-founded SlideShare with her brother Amit Ranjan, a mechanical engineer. Amit Ranjan is famous for helping the Indian government through DigiLocker.
Rashmi Sinha’s parents with her children and husband Jonathan Boutelle
Rashmi Sinha with her brother Amit Ranjan and husband Jonathan Boutelle
husband and children
Her husband, Jonathan Boutelle, co-founded SlideShare with Rashmi and serves as chief technology officer. The couple has two sons, twins named Vikram Boutelle and Rohan Boutelle, who were born in 2012.
Rashmi Sinha and husband Jonathan Boutelle
Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle and their sons Vikram and Rohan Boutelle
Profession
entrepreneur
Uzanto
Rashmi Sinha started her career in academics. She served as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, she was a lecturer at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught human-computer interaction and statistics from 1999 to 2001. In April 2003, she quit her job in academia and founded Uzanto (meaning “user” in Esperanto, a type of artificial intelligence). Language), a user experience consultancy. Initially, the company worked with large companies such as eBay, Blue Shield of California, AAA and Yahoo on different projects. Then the company changed its focus and started developing software. This change led to the creation of MindCanvas, an online tool designed to conduct surveys and other user research activities. Rashmi worked at Uzanto until October 2006.
Slide sharing
SlideShare was co-founded on October 4, 2006 by Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle, her husband, and Amit Ranjan. It allows users to share and view presentations, documents, and professional content. People use it to share knowledge, ideas, and resources with a global audience, making it a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and businesses. Although SlideShare was officially launched in October 2006, the idea was conceived earlier in March-April of that year, and work began during the summer. Once launched, users quickly embraced the concept. Initially, the company was self-funded (“bootstrapped”) for about a year and a half, receiving angel investment in December 2007. In April 2008, SlideShare received “Series A” financing from Venrock. SlideShare has two offices, one in San Francisco with 10 employees and one in Delhi with 20 employees.
The team behind SlideShare
The platform experienced rapid user growth, attracting more than 50 million monthly users by 2012, when LinkedIn expressed interest in the company. SlideShare began focusing on monetization efforts in 2009 and became profitable in 2012, while continuing to invest in continued expansion. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare in May 2012 for $119 million (Rs 640 crore). After the acquisition, Rashmi Sinha led SlideShare as a division of LinkedIn. In her role, she not only manages SlideShare product, technology, marketing and teams, but also works closely with the LinkedIn leadership team to ensure alignment with LinkedIn’s overall strategy.
the scientist
In 2014, after her son was diagnosed with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA), Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle began working to find a cure. In 2017, they established the SJIA Foundation, a non-profit organization designed to help accelerate the work of SJIA.
Rashmi Sinha works for the Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Foundation she founded
Honor
- In 2008, Fast Company named Rashmi Sinha the Most Powerful Woman in Web 2.0.
- Rashmi Sinha was ranked eighth on Fortune magazine’s 2012 list of the most powerful female entrepreneurs.
- In January 2015, Rashmi Sinha was ranked fourth among the 20 most influential Indian women in the world by the Economic Times.
Facts/Trivia
- Rashmi Sinha shares her name with a cancer researcher/epidemiologist.
- Rashmi Sinha revealed in an interview that she doesn’t like checking her phone and answering calls, she prefers to receive an email before picking up the phone to discuss the matter at hand.
- Although Rashmi Sinha has a private office, she prefers to work with other employees.
- Rashmi loves hiking.
From May 2005 to December 2008, she served as a volunteer in the Project Chair Project initiated by BayCHI.
- Rashmi Sinha’s favorite presentation on SlideShare is a modified version of Karl Fisch’s slide. Karl Fisch’s original talk, “The Shift Happens,” explores globalization and the future of America in the 21st century.
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