Topsy was founded by Vipul Prakash (CEO), Gary Iwatani (CFO/COO), and Rishab Ghosh (VP, Research) in 2006. Previously, the three founders all worked together at Cloudmark, an anti-spam company which Prakash co-founded, and Prakash and Ghosh also worked together on several Open Source research initiatives. All of the founders had separately worked on several startups [...]
Another Mayfield Fellows Program “Summer Journal” Entry… Topsy is located in the SOMA district of San Francisco in a complex shared by three other startups and a chiropractor (random, I know). Our unit itself is divided into two “bunkers” (as described by our CEO) which are physically separated. Both of these “bunkers” are fairly open [...]
I wrote this as part of my “journal” for the Mayfield Fellows Program a while back, and I thought I would include it here: I am coming up on my fourth week at Topsy, and at this point I am very comfortable with the company’s processes / organizational structure. For the most part, my orientation [...]
Man, I’m having a hard time doing this blogging thing! My updates are very sporadic, but that’s probably fine since I don’t really advertise this blog anyway. I really just want this to be a repository for some lessons that I learn, so I can always come back to them So again, I’m working for [...]
