Sunil Bhargava
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Sunil is the Founder and Managing Entrepreneur with Tandem Entrepreneurs, a collection of hands-on entrepreneurs who have built multiple successful businesses. Tandem works with founders, providing human capital (our sweat) to complement the team, financial capital (our funds) to grow the business, and social capital (our friends) to boost market traction and ultimately achieve liquidity. Our support gives current and prospective entrepreneurs the freedom to be founders, helping them transform innovative concepts into successful startups. We serve as the extended team off-loading tasks as needed so the founders can focus on what they do best - understanding their users needs and offering a service to meet them. With us, founders can get started immediately and hit their window of opportunity. They dont waste time raising money or hiring an extended team. We also increase their probability of success dramatically as our approach enables even small exits to be lucrative for everyone involved. Over the years Sunil has been instrumental in bringing to market successful products and services that have innovative technology and business models at their core. In the early part of his career Sunil worked at Xerox PARC and HP on language subsystems and then joined Oracle where he was central to the development of PL/SQL and Oracle Application Server during his 8-year career. Then as part of the founding team at Webvan as Vice President of Technology and helped put together a team and a service that was successfully rolled out to many cities. In 2002 Sunil co-founded Business Signatures Corp. As VP of Strategy, Sunil played a key role in every aspect of the business from defining the product, hiring the team, selling, marketing, fund raising to seeing it through to a successful acquisition by Entrust in 2006. Sunil holds a B.S.E.E. from IIT(Madras), an M.S. in CS from Rice University, and an M.S. in Management from Stanford University.