Prashanth Chandrasekar (Stack Overflow): Our Big Mission

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This is a podcast episode titled, Prashanth Chandrasekar (Stack Overflow): Our Big Mission. The summary for this episode is: Stack Overflow's mission is to empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. Prashanth describes how his personal story connects to this big mission, and how his team works to make this vision a reality. Mentioned in this episode:<a href="https://openviewpartners.com/newsletter/#.YfRAM-rMIuU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sign up for OpenView's weekly newsletter</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pchandrasekar/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO at Stack Overflow</a><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a>Follow <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakebartlett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blake Bartlett on Linkedin</a>. Podcast produced by <a href="https://openviewpartners.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenView</a>.View our <a href="https://openviewpartners.com/blog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog </a>for more context/inspiration.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/openview-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenView on Linkedin</a><a href="https://twitter.com/openviewventure" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenView on Twitter</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/openviewventure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenView on Instagram</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpenViewVenture/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenView on Facebook</a>

DESCRIPTION

Stack Overflow's mission is to empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. Prashanth describes how his personal story connects to this big mission, and how his team works to make this vision a reality.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO at Stack Overflow

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Today's Host

Blake Bartlett

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Today's Guests

Prashanth Chandrasekar

|CEO at Stack Overflow

As Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow, the world’s largest and most trusted software developer and technologist community and platform with over 100 million monthly users, Prashanth is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. He leads an amazing global organization of Stackers who are passionate about their mission: empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. Previously, Prashanth served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. He also held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history. Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. He was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting, focused on leading operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. Prashanth has an MBA from Harvard Business School, M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine and is a married father of two children.

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