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Laks Srini is the Co-Founder and CTO at ZeroDown. Additionally, Laks Srini has had 4 past jobs including Co Founder and CTO at Zenefits.
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Hailing from Chennai, Laks got all the encouragement he needed at a young age from his mother, a teacher, and father, a chartered accountant. He started learning computer programming in Class 6, and found it “easy and fun”. Most of his middle and high school years were spent in his father’s office, working on old PCs. In 2000, his choice for higher...
Laks’ five years at PSG were busy; there were numerous internships and multiple projects. “We learnt everything under the sun: from graphics and security to algorithms and data structure. I did some internship every summer,” he says. In 2001, he interned for Covansys, a company that built and developed an automated system for extraction and helped ...
Laks went on to intern at Institution of Mathematical sciences in Chennai where he developed a preliminary model and algorithm for “verification of two-party contract signing protocols for fairness”. The work was gratifying, but Laks wanted more. During campus placements, he got through DE Saw, a New York-based hedge fund with engineering and tech ...
Laks enjoyed working at DE Shaw, but wanted to do something of his own. The ecosystem of startups in the Valley intrigued him. He decided to take up the opportunity when he got a job with San Francisco-based SigFig in 2011. The company connected bank and investment accounts, checked spending patterns, and offered investment advice. It eventually be...
Six years later, a lot had changed at Zenefits. A new management team was in place, things were stable, and the working team had scaled. Things seemed to be in auto pilot mode. This was when Laks, along with Abhijit Dwivedi, COO of Zenefits, and Hari Vishwanathan, senior engineer at Zenefits, began ZeroDown. Their problem statement was simple: why ...
While hiring people, Laks now looks for curiosity and willingness to learn. He believes that times of crisis are the best to build companies as they offer the breathing space to build great products. “Nobody is asking about growth, and you can find those 100 people who love your product and just build for them.” One of Laks’ biggest learnings as a ...
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Dec 10, 2019 · Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits. You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini. Topics. 00:10 – What is ZeroDown? 1:30 – How did they test the idea? 3:30 – What did they learn from companies that failed in the space? 7:40 – Breaking down the product. 11:05 – ZeroDown’s customers.
Topics00:10 - What is ZeroDown?1:30 - How did they test the idea?3:30 - What did they learn from companies that failed in the space?7:40 - Breaking down the ...
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Oct 15, 2019 · The business, founded by former Zenefits chief operating officer Dwivedi, Laks Srini, Zenefits’ former chief technology officer, and Hari Viswanathan, a former Zenefits staff engineer, was ...
Nov 21, 2020 · What makes a techie? Let's ask Laks Srini, the Co-founder and CTO of ZeroDown, who still codes every day.
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