
Kourosh Zamanizadeh, EWMBA ‘18 - Founded@Berkeley on Quitting Jobs, Bootstrapping, and Berkeley SkyDeck Support to Start Ping Inc.
with Kourosh Zamanizadeh

Kourosh Zamanizadeh, EWMBA ‘18 - Founded@Berkeley on Quitting Jobs, Bootstrapping, and Berkeley SkyDeck Support to Start Ping Inc.
0:00 / --:--Episode #05: Today we share an episode from Founded@Berkeley with Kourosh Zamanizadeh (EWMBA '18). He is the COO and co-founder of Ping Inc. Awarded 2017’s LegalTech Startup of the Year by the American Bar Association, Ping is an enterprise SaaS company that automates timekeeping for lawyers and provides analytics on time and billing data for law firms. Kourosh shares with us the founders' journey from quitting their jobs and flying to London to land their first client, to finding and building a support system around your startup.
Founded@Berkeley is a co-production between Berkeley Entrepreneurship Association and Haas Business School Students, Ann Snitko and Sean Li. Our mission is to bring the UC Berkeley entrepreneurship ecosystem closer than ever and find key ingredients of Berkeley founders success.
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